Alex Ebert Quotes

I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.

I can't even remember playing a game without pain.

My dad lived with pain his whole life.

All pain is the same.

I never take medication for pain. I want to know if the pain is getting better or worse.

Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.

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

I actually had kind of one of those crazy experiences where when I hit, it was black out excruciating pain, and then white out absence of pain, and the subconscience thought that I want to go back.

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

I don't feel pain like most people.

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.

Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause is healed. Suffering is pain that we hold on to. It comes from the mind’s mysterious instinct to believe that pain is good, or that it cannot be escaped, or that the person deserves it.

There is such a thing as anaesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne.

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 reaches a certain point and does not get worse but remains in all its intensity and you can survive it.

Pain is the body's way of ridding itself of weakness.

Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds.

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

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

When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in behaviour may last several hours.

I've never formally trained for pain management, but I have a good understanding of how to conquer it. I just analyze the pain, feel it in the moment, and then mentally become numb to it.

If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.

I meditate a lot, but I am constantly in pain. I'm trying to live with this. You just have to accept it.

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.

Because of my sickle-cell disease, I have a high tolerance for pain.