Edward St Aubyn Quotes

When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable.

Pain in the present is experienced as hurt. Pain in the past is remembered as anger. Pain in the future is perceived as anxiety. Unexpressed anger, redirected against yourself and held within, is called guilt. The depletion of energy that occurs when anger is redirected inward creates depression.

Most people fear pain. I've learned that not feeling pain is a much more frightening proposition than feeling it. In fact, there are times when I'm playing when I actually enjoy it.

Pain has no effect but to steal some of my time.

Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.

There's no way that I know of to avoid pain absolutely, but suffering is the interpretation we choose to place on the pain we encounter.

Pain isn't always the enemy.

Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message.

At such a moment, it is not the physical pain which hurts the most (and this applies to adults as much as to punished children); it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all.

If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.

If only everything hurt as little as a blow to the face.

I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.

Love hurts more than hate.

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.

I have a high tolerance for pain - both physical and mental.

People have pain - they do regrettable things, they feel shame, and shame equals pain.

I just want to say to anybody out there who suffers with chronic pain, I feel you. It takes over your life. It affects you emotionally, mentally, physically.

People play with pain all the time.

I don't feel pain like most people.

I have a high tolerance for pain.

Pain is pain.

I feel hurt and pain times a million, all the time.

When you have His joy in your heart, it doesn't necessarily mean your pain or hurt will be taken away. It means you'll be able to bear it.

A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.

...there are only some many times you can utter "It does not hurt" before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.