Sebastian Faulks Quotes

Opium soothes; alcohol maddens.

Researchers from Britain's Keele University have found that swearing after an injury may help alleviate pain. Evidently, the pain that you feel is inversely proportional to the number of middle names you give Jesus.

Here it comes," she said with an expression of pure bliss. "Drug rush ... any moment now ... the surge of warmth ... bye-bye, Mr. Pain..." "Vee-" "Knock, knock." "This is really important-" "Knock, knock." "It's about Elliot-" "Knock, knoooock," she said in a singsong voice. I sighed. "Who's there?" "Boo." "Boo who?" "Boo-hoo, somebody's crying, and it's not me!" She broke into hysterical laughter.

Is it bad when you refer to all alcohol as "Pain Go Bye-Bye Juice"?

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.

Only the opium eater truly understands the pain of death.

That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.

Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress & yet not be overwhelmed by it.

Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop.

It's a crooked system, but gin straight take the pain away.

A blunt a day will take the pain away.

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.

Right there is the usefulness of migraine, there in that imposed yoga, the concentration on the pain. For when the pain recedes, ten or twelve hours later, everything goes with it, all the hidden resentments, all the vain anxieties. The migraine has acted as a circuit breaker, and the fuses have emerged intact. There is a pleasant convalescent euphoria.

The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.

There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)

Whatever pains disease may bring Are but the tangy seasoning To Loves delicious fare.

The Alexander Technique works... I recommend it enthusiastically to anyone who has neck pains or back pain.

If they prescribe pain killers that may increase the possibility of death so long as their specific intention was not to end life." "Doctors should do everything they can to reduce pain, but not to administer drugs to end life, I think we go over a line then.

I thought it sounded just like the sort of drug a man would invent. Here was a woman in terrible pain, obviously feeling every bit of it or she wouldn't groan like that, and she would go straight home and start another baby, because the drug would make her forget how bad the pain had been, when all the time, in some secret part of her, that long, blind, doorless and windowless corridor or pain was waiting to open up and shut her in again.

The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.

Drinking, eating, shopping, revenge, rebound sex, drugs or whatever your poison may be will number the pain - but that's all.

Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important.

The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away.

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

We might die from medication but we sure killed all the pain