Robert Cormier Quotes

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

I can handle pain.

My dad lived with pain his whole life.

Pain ... after you've lived with it long enough, isn't pain anymore. It's something else.

Pain is my daily routine. As long as I don't go to the hospital, it's nothing for me.

I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.

Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.

I've been in pain for so long now I'm just used to it.

Physical pain is problematic because it's very difficult to transcend that. Sometimes you're just in physical pain, and that's a bummer. Even then, there are beautiful things involved in the healing of that. I've experienced some.

The pain doesn't go away. You just make room for it.

Don’t worry about me handling the pain," I say. "I’ve had a lot of practice.

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

All pain is the same.

Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself.

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

Doctors have told me I have a high pain threshold, but I can only know what I feel. I think I'm good at minimising the pain and being indifferent to it.

I can take more pain than anyone.

It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.

If you feel pain, you have to make up your mind whether you can play with it or not.

When you're performing pain never matters.

A little pain is no problem.

People play with pain all the time.

I don't feel pain like most people.

I've learned a lot about pain management.

I am so worried about my shoulder, which aches now as I write. The pain is frightening because of its intensity. I want so much to get rid of this pain. I must be strong. I must be strong.