physical distress Quotes

One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one's mental suffering is so much greater than any common physical distress that the latter is almost forgotten.

The beating of my heart was so violent and wild that I felt as if my life were breaking from me.

my lungs sucked at being lungs.

The sickness rolled through me in great waves. After each wave it would fade away and leave me limp as a wet leaf and shivering all over and then I would feel it rising up in me again, and the glittering white torture chamber tiles under my feet and over my head and all four sides closed in and squeezed me to pieces.

I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.

With throbbing veins and burning skin, eyes wild and heavy, thoughts hurried and disordered, he felt as though the light were a reproach, and shrunk involuntarily from the day as if he were some foul and hideous thing.

Are you hurt?" "Absolutely," I said. "Especially in my everywhere.

All birth is unwilling.

Pain is part of the body's magic. It is the way the body transmits a sign to the brain that something is wrong.

Before I got in the car, I was puking all over the place and on the grid. I was just a shaking wreck.

A hundred yards away, Mike Newton was lowering Bella's limp body to the sidewalk. She slumped unresponsively against the wet concrete, her skin chalky as a corpse. I almost took the door off the car.

The excess skin, especially in my neck, was driving me crazy.

No I am not all right!” Chrestomanci said, after five minutes of this. “I have worldwide blisters. I need a shave. I’m tired out and I haven’t had anything to eat since breakfast yesterday. Would you feel alright in my position?

The nephew revenges himself for this, by holding his breath and terrifying his kinswoman with the dread belief that he has made up his mind to burst. Regardless of whispers and shakes, he swells and becomes discoloured, and yet again swells and becomes discoloured, until the aunt can bear it no longer, but leads him out, with no visible neck, and with his eyes going before him like a prawn's.

Pain is the body's way of telling the brain it's in trouble. Similarly, confusion is the brain's way of telling the body, 'All right, buddy, drop that book.

I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.

I had to groan a bit on the couch when my brow was mopped - as it is when you've been shot across the chest.

I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true - men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe

If you stretched the average person's intestines out from end to end, it would make them scream a lot.

You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.

It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating.

The writer's shortness of breath became more and more distressing as he rose.

I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.

Step 4: Cough and gag. Step 5: Repeat Step 4 until it feels like maybe your lungs aren't inside your body anymore. Step 6: Remember that a really cute boy is beside you, so try to cough in a far more attractive manner.

Fill all thy bones with aches.