--- title: "1 Pain Work Quotes By Jack Ketchum" description: "1 Pain Work quotes by Jack Ketchum. Plus more from Jack Ketchum and more Pain Work sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c6f/jack-ketchum-26188_form_pain-can-work-form-the-outside-in-673664_673664.jpg" --- > [pain can work form the outside in.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-ketchum/pain-can-work-form-the-outside-in/) [Jack Ketchum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-ketchum/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c6f/jack-ketchum-26188_form_pain-can-work-form-the-outside-in-673664_673664.jpg) ## More by Jack Ketchum > [“Fighting for your life is a fucking ball. As long as you didn’t get slaughtered.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-ketchum/fighting-for-your-life-is-a-fucking-ball-as-long-as-you-didn-t-get/) [Jack Ketchum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-ketchum/) > [“The trick of functioning with grief is that of remembering and forgetting all at once. Of letting the ghost walk at your side but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-ketchum/the-trick-of-functioning-with-grief-is-that-of-remembering-and/) [Jack Ketchum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-ketchum/) > [“Friendship and sex were really all she wanted from men these days.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-ketchum/friendship-and-sex-were-really-all-she-wanted-from-men-these-days/) [Jack Ketchum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-ketchum/) > [“She had always given too much of her life over to relationships, and they’d never quite worked out. Now she was simplifying her life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-ketchum/she-had-always-given-too-much-of-her-life-over-to-relationships-and/) [Jack Ketchum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-ketchum/) > [pain can work form the outside in.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-ketchum/pain-can-work-form-the-outside-in/) [Jack Ketchum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-ketchum/) > [As though all the world were a bad joke and she was the only one around who knew the punchline.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-ketchum/as-though-all-the-world-were-a-bad-joke-and-she-was-the-only-one/) [Jack Ketchum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-ketchum/) > [“You could grow up every which way, a tree standing tall and straight in an open field or blasted and twisted on the side…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-ketchum/you-could-grow-up-every-which-way-a-tree-standing-tall-and-straight/) [Jack Ketchum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-ketchum/) > [“She was grinning and she should have been pretty when she grinned. She had good white teeth and a lovely, delicate mouth. But something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-ketchum/she-was-grinning-and-she-should-have-been-pretty-when-she-grinned-she/) [Jack Ketchum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-ketchum/) > [Black coffee’s a lot like whiskey, you know? All devil and no trimmin’s. Always liked my sins pure and take it as it comes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-ketchum/black-coffee-s-a-lot-like-whiskey-you-know-all-devil-and-no-trimmin-s/) [Jack Ketchum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-ketchum/) > [“In the basement, with Ruth, I began to learn that anger, hate, fear and loneliness are all one button awaiting the touch of just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-ketchum/in-the-basement-with-ruth-i-began-to-learn-that-anger-hate-fear-and/) [Jack Ketchum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-ketchum/) > [“He was a good man and a kind man but he never knew what he wanted. I think that eventually it killed him.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-ketchum/he-was-a-good-man-and-a-kind-man-but-he-never-knew-what-he-wanted-i/) [Jack Ketchum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-ketchum/) > [“Bad enough I’m a goddamn burden to myself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-ketchum/bad-enough-i-m-a-goddamn-burden-to-myself/) [Jack Ketchum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-ketchum/) > [“To her eyes, used to diversity, there was a troubling uniformity about them all, something that spoke of isolation, and a dull and thoughtless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-ketchum/to-her-eyes-used-to-diversity-there-was-a-troubling-uniformity-about/) [Jack Ketchum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-ketchum/) > [“It was strange how, when there was nothing else in your life, sex was everything.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-ketchum/it-was-strange-how-when-there-was-nothing-else-in-your-life-sex-was/) [Jack Ketchum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-ketchum/) > [“I lay in bed and thought how easy it was to hurt a person. It didn’t have to be physical. All you had to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-ketchum/i-lay-in-bed-and-thought-how-easy-it-was-to-hurt-a-person-it-didn-t/) [Jack Ketchum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-ketchum/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/pain-work/jack-ketchum/#itemlist", "name": "1 Pain Work Quotes By Jack Ketchum", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "pain can work form the outside in.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jack Ketchum" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-ketchum/pain-can-work-form-the-outside-in/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c6f/jack-ketchum-26188_form_pain-can-work-form-the-outside-in-673664_673664.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c6f/jack-ketchum-26188_form_pain-can-work-form-the-outside-in-673664_673664.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c6f/jack-ketchum-26188_form_pain-can-work-form-the-outside-in-673664_673664.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“pain can work form the outside in.” — Jack Ketchum", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/pain-work/jack-ketchum/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/pain-work/jack-ketchum/", "name": "Pain Work Quotes by Jack Ketchum", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/pain-work/jack-ketchum/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c6f/jack-ketchum-26188_form_pain-can-work-form-the-outside-in-673664_673664.jpg" }, "description": "1 Pain Work quotes by Jack Ketchum. 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