Physical Suffering Quotes

I don't mind getting old except for the pain. I have two new knees, so going downstairs is not perfect. Nobody tells you about the pain.

It still hurts," she whispered. "Even when you're doing it for someone else, that doesn't stop your ribs from getting cracked, or your wrist swelling, or your cuts from bleeding.

Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.

I go through a lot of painful things. There are sessions when I will be on my back afterwards, crawling.

Suffering has no strength to wound a weary body.

...it was more like bleeding than crying.

My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain.

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

My feet are not a good part of my body. They definitely have suffered for my art. They're, like, all bunions and blisters.

When the body is in pain, a distorted area of awareness is crying out to the rest of awareness for help.

Detroit is a city that really stands out. It's been through a very difficult time. There's been a lot of pain here, and the city, physically, has suffered. You can see it in certain neighborhoods, and there's buildings downtown that have been abandoned.

Pain will force even the truthful to speak falsely.

I told you I was sick.

It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding.

Here ah am in the junky's limbo; too sick tae sleep, too tired tae stay awake. A twilight zone ay the senses where nothing's real except the crushing, omnipresent misery n pain in your mind n body.

Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.

I'm on a no-gummy bear or juice diet, and my body feels like it's dying on the inside.

We were all born of flesh, in a flare of pain. We do not remember the red roots whence we rose, but we know that we rose and walked, that after a while we shall lie down again.

Sex and death. Two things that come but once in my lifetime, but at least after death you're not nauseous.

As far as the physical miseries go, I am sure I will cope. I lived at Eton in the 1950s and I know all about life in uncomfortable quarters.

Torture will give a dozen pence or more To keep a drab from bawling at his door. The public taste is quite a different thing Torture is positively paid to sing.

There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently

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.

Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.

Dancers, you know, they have pain everywhere: ankles in the morning, or back or neck or ribs or knees or the muscles. You are never free of pain, you know.