Ache Quote by Peter Medawar

Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain.

— Margaret Atwood

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

— Anne Carson

“Results have not been encouraging. We seem up against a dilemma built into Nature, much like the Heisenberg situation. There is nearly complete parallelism…

— Thomas Pynchon

At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The subject of pain is the business I am in - to give meaning and shape to frustration and suffering. The existence of pain…

— Louise Bourgeois

There is such a thing as anaesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne.

— Jack London

When we reach reflexively for something to dull an ache inside of us, in that very moment of reaching, we are hiding from our…

— Dani Shapiro

There's something about [pain] that excites me. If I'm feeling really awful about something, it's because I haven't experienced it before. There's something I…

— Rachael Yamagata

When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain.

— Jennifer Aniston

Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and simple.

— Lucy Grealy

Potential unexpressed turns to pain.

— Robin Sharma

When we focus on our pain, our ache deepens.

— Kristin Armstrong