Severe Pain Quotes

• Children of the mentally ill learn early on how not to be a bother, especially if they grew up with neglect. As my sister insisted once, when she was in severe pain after injuring her ankle, 'This isn't me! This is not who I am!

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  Mira Bartok

  Children   Pain   Who I Am  

  Mira Bartok (2011). “The Memory Palace: A Memoir”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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• Of all the things we can feel with our minds and bodies, severe pain is the purest, for it drives everything else from our awareness and focuses us as perfectly as we can ever be focused.

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  Dean Koontz

  Pain   Mind   Body  

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel”, p.376, Bantam

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• When people are in severe pain, there's an expression, you're a "pain person," and what that means is that nothing else matters.

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  Dan Ariely

  Pain   Mean   Expression  

  "Mental depletion complicates financial decisions for the poor". Interview with Kristen Doerer, www.pbs.org. January 19, 2016.

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• All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

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  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Pain   Philosophical   Doubt  

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• The Israelis have taken a lot of security measures which reduce significantly the ability of Iran to inflict truly severe pain in Israel. But America is vulnerable with 100,000 troops in Iraq and more than half of that in Afghanistan, and we depend heavily on access to Middle Eastern oil. We're sitting targets for debilitating Iranian retaliation.

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  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Pain   Taken   America  

  Source: www.realclearworld.com

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

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  Jane Austen

  Pain   Heart   Health  

  Jane Austen (2013). “Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.353, BookCaps Study Guides

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• We all pretend for a while or for a lifetime. But pretending is not living...I believe that God meant for life to take our breath away, sometimes because of the sheer joy of it all and sometimes because of the severe pain. To choose living over pretending means that we will know both.

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  Angela Thomas

  Pain   Believe   Mean  

  2010

• Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.

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  Seneca the Younger

  Pain   Badass   Quality  

  Epistulae ad Lucilium XCIV

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