Pain Comparison Quotes

...maybe it was better to break a man's leg than to break his heart.

Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

The tooth-ach is more ease then to deale with ill people.

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.

The nip of an ant hurts a martyr more than the cut and thrust of weapons, for those are more welcome to him than sweet, cold water on a hot summer day.

When you cry out in pain from a broken wrist, no one questions it. You just go to the hospital and take the necessary steps. Mental illness is just as real, even if it can't be seen.

Phychical pain is more easily borne than physical; and if I had my choice between a bad conscience and a bad tooth, I should choose the former.

Grief is like a bomber circling round and dropping its bombs each time the circle brings it overhead; physical pain is like the steady barrage on a trench in World War One, hours if it with no let-up for a moment. Thought is never static pain often is... is it not yet enough?

Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.

I always say that no matter what the torture is, or the tool is, first of all it's nothing worse than what's been done already and that wasn't done by the church and the state for over a period of 250 years during the European witch trials.

If someone were to say that life at hard labor is as painful as death and therefore equally cruel, I should reply that, taking all the unhappy moments of perpetual slavery together, it is perhaps even more painful, but these moments are spread out over a lifetime, and capital punishment exercises all its power in an instant.

You should have a softer pillow than my heart.

Being tall and big was probably more painful than being black.

If you want to know the feeling [of labor pain], just take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.

Physical pain is easily forgotten, but a moral chagrin lasts indefinitely.

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.

I wipe away my tears and nod, because the pain in my leg is nothing compare to the one in my heart.

All pain is the same.

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

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

The 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth.

All people believe their suffering is greater than others.

The revolution taught me not to be consoled by other people's miseries, not to feel thankful because so many others had suffered more. Pain and loss, like love and joy, are unique and personal; they cannot be modified by comparison to others.

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

How odd that girl's life looks Behind this soft eclipse! I think that earth seems so To those in heaven now. This being comfort, then That other kind was pain; But why compare? I'm wife! stop there!