Quote by Samuel Beckett

“The dentist swiveled on his heels and disappeared, leaving me there to massage my jaw back into feeling after its brief, masochistic marriage to…

— Jonathan Lethem

“I ground my teeth as I bit back words I knew would hurt. That was the danger with knowing and loving others. You always…

— T.J. Klune

“But now and then, beneath the outer numbness, something stirred, like a living pain waiting for the anesthetic to wear away.”

— Zilpha Keatley Snyder

“The pain is such that I refuse to acknowledge it. I feel numb. I have somehow escaped from my body and am now a…

— E.L. James

“...I looked at the place with my heart beating as I had known it to do in the dentist's parlor.”

— Henry James

“He watched the pain's unsummoned appearance with a cold, detached curiosity; he said to himself: Well, here it is again. He waited to see…

— Ayn Rand

“I could see her biting the inside of her cheek hollow while she said that last bit. It was easier to ache than grieve.…

— Frank Larnerd

“I needed to pay attention, to be ready to step through and descend into it, whatever it was. It felt archetypal. Something in me…

— Jane Fonda

“Although the magnitude of my pain would scream otherwise, I cannot be so remiss as not to realize that my wounds are the precious…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I’m sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine.”

— Richard Siken

“It is not unpleasant to hold someone else's warm teeth in your hand...”

— David Sedaris

“I had to climb out of the hurt, the loss seemingly tethering itself around me pulling me deeper into the pain. It was in…

— Dawn Garcia