Djuna Barnes Quotes

Fill all thy bones with aches.

The greatest evil is physical pain.

Pain is pain.

It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows.

I told myself – as I’ve told myself before – that the body shuts down when the pain gets too bad, that consciousness is temporary, that this will pass. But just like always, I didn’t slip away. I was left on the shore with the waves washing over me, unable to drown.

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

Pain doesn't have a face and pain doesn't have a certain way of adjusting. Pain is universal.

To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.

There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.

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

Pain has no color.

Physical pain is temporary.

Here ah am in the junky's limbo; too sick tae sleep, too tired tae stay awake. A twilight zone ay the senses where nothing's real except the crushing, omnipresent misery n pain in your mind n body.

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.

The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.

Pain is pain. It needs no description.

When people are in severe pain, there's an expression, you're a "pain person," and what that means is that nothing else matters.

Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire

I was seeing everything through pain.

Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.

I've never broken a bone in my life, or in my body.

Why? You want to know why? Step into a tanning booth and fry yourself for two or three days. After your skin bubbles and peels off, roll in coarse salt, then pull on long underwear woven from spun glass and razor wire. Over that goes your regular clothes, as long as they are tight.

Were it not for the bone in the legge, all the world would turne Carpenters (to make them crutches).

Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment.