Intense Pain Quotes:

I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart.

- Yann Martel

source: Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.108, Vintage Canada

topic: Pain, Heart, Nerves, Intense Pain

The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.

- Michael Jordan

topic: Basketball, Sports, Pain, Joy And Pain, Intense Feelings

The Dudleys are going to get the VIP treatment this Sunday-- Very Intense Pain!

- Jerry Lawler

topic: Pain, Sunday, Vip, Intense Pain

Sensory experience does not offset the intense pain or pleasure we feel on a mental level; it may distract us, but doesn't overcome it. On the other hand, if we have peace of mind, even negative experiences do not upset us. Peace of mind is also good for our physical health. Medical experts have found that anger, hatred and fear eat into our immune system. Being calm and relaxed is better for our physical well-being.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Joy And Pain, Negative Experiences, Intense Pain, Physical Health

The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow with an inner poise, and to absorb the most intense pain without abandoning our sense of hope.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Christian, Disappointment, Pain, Intense Pain, Poise

Few things a doctor does are more important than relieving pain. . . pain is soul destroying. No patient should have to endure intense pain unnecessarily. The quality of mercy is essential to the practice of medicine; here, of all places, it should not be strained.

- Marcia Angell

topic: Pain, Doctors, Practice, Intense Pain, Practice Of Medicine

Real fear is like intense pain. It's there to warn you something's truly wrong.

- Tim Lebbon

topic: Pain, Real, Intense, Intense Pain

When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Intense Pain, Grateful To God

Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths. What people need is beautiful, comforting stories that make them feel as if their lives have some meaning. Which is where religion comes from.

- Haruki Murakami

topic: Beautiful, Pain, People, Intense Pain, Painful Truth

He could feel it immediately when his shoulder snapped - the intense pain of his bones cracking. His skin tightened, as if it could no long hold whatever was lurking inside him. The breath was sucked from his lungs like he was being crushed. His vision began to blur, and he had the sensation he was falling, even though he could feel the rock tearing at his flesh as his body seized on the ground.

- Kami Garcia

topic: Pain, Fall, Rocks, Intense Pain

Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless wit of this kind of despair. There is no inclination for anything any more--the person is alone, like a baleful power--as he has no connection with the rest of the world he consumes himself gradually--and in accordance with his own principle he is--misanthropic and misotheos.

- Novalis

topic: Pain, Soul, Mind, Misanthropic, Intense Pain

Intense pain often pushed me to make changes. The pain of the eating disorder pushed me into recovering from eating-disordered behaviors, and then the emotional turmoil I experienced without those behaviors (not knowing how to cope with perfectionism, feelings, and life in general) took me even further, so that I ultimately found serenity.

- Jenni Schaefer

source: Jenni Schaefer (2009). “Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life”, p.5, McGraw Hill Professional

topic: Pain, Emotional, Knowing, Intense Pain, Emotional Turmoil