George Orwell Quotes

So, when a raging fever burns, We shift from side to side by turns; And 't is a poor relief we gain To change the place, but keep the pain.

Better a tooth out than always aching.

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.

Physical pain is temporary.

There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single attack exhaust itself; pain always makes single attacks, so that its bite may be more intense, more concentrated. And you, while its fangs are implanted and injecting their venom at one spot, do not forget to offer it another place where it can bite you, and so relieve the pain of the first.

There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

When you're in pain, tomorrow doesn't exist - just the pain - and the only thing that you want in the world is for it to go away.

Pain is to be endured. It ends or it does not.

Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.

You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many devils, Attend the poor souls from their birth.

I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not God-made.

Few things a doctor does are more important than relieving pain. . . pain is soul destroying. No patient should have to endure intense pain unnecessarily. The quality of mercy is essential to the practice of medicine; here, of all places, it should not be strained.

One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.

Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.

Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.

Have faith that when bad things happen to you, I belief in an after life, it is better to suffer here on Earth than what awaits you. That is why I pray for pain, and I get it. I do.

Wishin' was dyin' but I gotta make it all this way to that bed on these feet.

"I feel like, like pudding," Iggy groaned. "Pudding with nerve endings. Pudding in great pain."

The life of men is painful.

When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.

My life would never contain a convenient, pain-saving plan when it could stretch a problem out into an endless agony of uncertainty and torture.

O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.

Through wind, and tempest, storm, and rain; The calm shall be buried inside of me; A warm stone, heavy and dry; The root, the source, a weapon against pain

Fine words lack all meaning when we are confronted by real suffering.