Quotes About Psychological Pain

#1. I suppose I do believe that the greatest art consoles a wound that it creates, that art can give you the capacity to endure and respond to the pain it forces you to feel. Psychological pain, I mean.

Christian Wiman

#2. If I have any complaints about my youth ... one is that many well-meaning adults lied to me. Not spiteful lies with malicious intent but lies designed to prevent emotional and psychological pain - lies told by the people who cared about me most: my parents, teachers, relatives.

Chris Crutcher

#3. The psychological pain
and the ethical shame
of American poverty are made greater by the fact that this country possesses the wealth and the energy to raise all children to a minimally decent standard of living.

Kenneth Keniston

#4. Anxiety, the other characteristic of modern man, is even more basic than emptiness and loneliness. For being "hollow" and lonely would not bother us except that it makes us prey to that peculiar psychological pain and turmoil called anxiety.

Rollo May

#5. Like physical pain, our psychological pain is an indication of something out of equilibrium, some limitation that has been exceeded. And like our physical pain, our psychological pain is not necessarily always bad or even undesirable.

Mark Manson

#6. Time and again, people transcend the paralyzing effects of psychological pain when they have sufficient contact with someone who can hear them empathically.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#7. Woody Allen once said that 90 percent of life is about showing up. Ninety percent of healing people in psychological pain is shutting up - at least long enough to let them bleed the truth. That sounds easy, but it isn't. (68)

Keith Ablow

#8. I just like putting outfits together without much thought and seeing what the outcome is.

Vanessa Paradis

#9. All of the sudden, my right leg caved in. I crumpled to the floor in pain. The doctor weren't sure I'd ever be able to play again ... and even if I did recover physically, the psychological scars of so traumatic an injury might never heal.

Wilt Chamberlain

#10. He looked so strange and absentminded; quite obviously he had just been reading a book, one could tell that from the expression in his eyes, from his hair, from the abstracted way in which he managed his hands.

Jens Peter Jacobsen

#11. Apache have the strongest nation in the world behind them. So we're going to inflict pain where our European aunts and uncles had to endure it. And so the fact that you could actually get Nazis scared of a band of Jews, that's - again, that's a gigantic psychological thing.

Quentin Tarantino

#12. If the person you were fighting had any kind of wound,worry it and keep at it And the pain would be much more intense.It was the psychological angle and all.Once a cut was there,it was human nature to try to protect it from more harm.

Martina Cole

#13. To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin ... and I've always known where it will end.

D.J. MacHale

#14. You know what we can be like: see a guy and think he's cute one minute, the next minute our brains have us married with kids, the following minute we see him having an extramarital affair. By the time someone says, 'I'd like you to meet Cecil,' we shout, 'You're late again with the child support!'

Cynthia Heimel

#15. In a world threatened by pain and death, stories of miracle workers are a psychological necessity, because the alternative is unmitigated horror and despair.

Philip Ball

#16. Most doctors are uncomfortable with medical conditions that have a psychological basis.

John E. Sarno

#17. You never have to suffer because of, or be denatured by, another person, even someone you love.

Rossana Condoleo

#18. Differentiating from parental introjects and psychological defences based on the emotional pain of childhood is essential not only for neurotic or seriously disturbed individuals; it is a central developmental issue in every person's life.

Lisa Firestone

#19. Addictions always originate in pain, whether felt openly or hidden in the unconscious. They are emotional anesthetics. Heroin and cocaine, both powerful physical painkillers, also ease psychological discomfort.

Gabor Mate

#20. We do just about anything to avoid pain and preserve a sense of self, and this compulsion often results in us creating psychological defenses.

Tom Butler-Bowdon

#21. I just want to remember her. One last time, I want to remember her while still hoping to see her again

John Green

#22. Today the pain seems to be gone, along with fear and shapelessness.

Ophelia Callens

#23. There is no such thing as colossal failure. There is only colossal courage to attempt the impossible again and again until it becomes possible.

Toni Sorenson

#24. AIDS does not inevitably lead to death, especially if you suppress the co-factors that support the disease. It is very important to tell this to people who are infected.

Luc Montagnier

#25. I'm not a tweeter or a Facebooker or a Grammer. I'm a real grump when it comes to technology. I'm like, come on, just write me a letter.

Matt Smith

#26. Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.

Dean Koontz

#27. That which never attains a state of non-principle [non-truth] is known as the principle.

Dada Bhagwan

#28. Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.

Joyce Carol Oates

#29. The only thing I feel passionate about is my wife.

Donald Sutherland

#30. The joke that you laid in the bed that was me.

Alanis Morissette

#31. three things were most important in easing life's final journey. People needed strong relief from physical pain and troublesome symptoms, they needed to preserve their dignity, and they needed help with the psychological and spiritual pain of death.

Annie Clara Brown

#32. Effort and pain may not be avoided. Physical and psychological breakdowns occur. The support of a like-minded group, dedicated to The Art of Suffering, provides a safety net. An individual will push harder and risk more in the company of trustworthy peers ...

Mark Twight

#33. The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never.

Unknown

#34. The element of surprise is vastly overrated in any relationship.

Molly Harper

#35. I'm sorry about Finch. He was a good, screwed up kid who should have had more help." "I feel responsible.

Jennifer Niven

#36. Man does work for profit in order to enjoy pain; but in a positive sense, he works to enjoy the excitement and meaning that achievement provides for his own psychological growth and thereby his happiness.

Frederick Herzberg

#37. Because of that, he didn't know how to love someone who actually loved him. He had learned a twisted, tormented kind of love filled with pain and exploitation.

Jacqueline Simon Gunn