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Pain Quotes by Kay Redfield Jamison
- There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous. The ideas and…
- There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness... It will never end, for madness carves its…
- Suicide is a particularly awful way to die: the mental suffering leading up to it is usually prolonged, intense and unpalliated. There is no morphine…
- No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one's dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pain more tolerable, but, always, one…
- It is tempting when looking at the life of anyone who has committed suicide to read into the decision to die a vastly complex web…
- Looking at suicide—the sheer numbers, the pain leading up to it, and the suffering left behind—is harrowing. For every moment of exuberance in the science,…
- We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way…
- I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life.
More Pain Quotes
- The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. — Aristotle
- Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
- Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain… — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. — Lance Armstrong
- Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons. — Lance Armstrong
- Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that… — Kevyn Aucoin
- The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. — Marcus Aurelius
- What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay the… — Paul Auster
- Pain is never permanent. — Teresa of Avila