“The pain is unrelenting; one does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes.” DoePainSufferingBedAbandonNailsUnrelenting Author:William Styron
“Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall, I hurry amain to reach the plain; Run the rapid and leap the fall, Split at the rock, and together again Accept my bed, or narrow or wide, And flee from folly on every side With a lover's pain to attain the plain, Far from the hills of Habersham, Far from the valleys of Hall.” RunningPainTogetherFallSidesAcceptingRocksLoversBedRiversWideHillsFollyHallsLeapValleysSplitsRapidsTogether Again Book:Poems of Sidney Lanier Source: Poems of Sidney Lanier
“I have seen how patients with arthritis, crippled for years, have left their crutches and beds and walked.at the biological clinics (Europe). After a few days or weeks of simple and harmless treatments, the pain from which they suffered for years disappeared and their joints became mobile and flexible again.” YearsPainLeftSimpleWeekBedEuropePatientTreatmentFlexibleJointsMobileCrippledCrutchesClinicArthritis Author:Paavo Airola
“To multitudes of sufferers on beds of pain and languishing, Jesus has been the great physician to-day; in many a weeping circle around precious dust, He has been the Divine comforter, and the tears have almost ceased to flow as this Jesus has touched the bier. Dying lips have whispered His name, and the valley of the shadow has been illumined as with the glory from the celestial shores.” Has BeensPainJesusNamesDyingTearsDivineBedGloryShadowFlowLipsCirclesDustTouchedShoreValleysPhysiciansMultitudesWeepingCelestialSufferersComforter Author:Abbott Eliot Kittredge
“I took one glance at her in that hospital bed under the dull light and recognised the look on her face, which I'd seen on donors often enough before. It was like she was willing her eyes to see right inside herself, so she could patrol and marshal all the better the separate areas of pain in her body.” LooksBookEnoughBodyLightEyePainFacesLanguageWillingBedAreasDullHospitalsHer EyesGlancesDonors Author:Kazuo Ishiguro
“If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it is the power of relieving distress--if there be a pain which devils might pity man for enduring, it is the death-bed reflection that we have possessed the power of doing good, but that we have abused and perverted it to purposes of ill.” IfsMenMightEarthPainPurposeEnjoyPleasureBedReflectionDevilAngelCharityEndureIllPossessionEnvyPityPossessedDistressDoing GoodDeath Bed Book:L.P. Source: L.P.
“[On her morphine addiction:] I was meant to 'taper off.' At times I felt such pains as must afflict a creature while a bigger beast eats and claws at its middle. God-awful things were hiding underneath my bed, and it was no use telling me they were not there - I knew they were, and felt their dreadful ever-changing shapes.” UsePainFeltMiddleShapesBedCreaturesBiggerAddictionAwfulBeastHidingClawsMorphine Author:Evalyn Walsh McLean
“There are dreams inside of me and those are mine and my guess is that they're there for a reason. But for all the days like now where the dreams are asked to be only dreams, I'm gonna keep getting out of bed. I'm gonna keep living my story. I'm gonna believe that there is reason and purpose, and power in my life. I'm gonna believe that I'm alive inside a story bigger than my pain, bigger than everything missing.” BelieveReasonStoriesDreamPainPurposeAliveMissingMinesBedBiggerI'm Alive Author:Jamie Tworkowski
“The exit from agony is always there. The tunnel out of the agony sector is always in front of you and yet you don't take it. You don't take it by choice. You want to indulge a lot and be in pain. The easiest way out is to write a list of what you're grateful for. If everybody literally did that before they went to bed at night, there'd be no unhappy people.” PeopleIfsWayWantWritingPainNightChoicesFrontsBedGratefulListsUnhappyAgonyIndulgeTunnelsExitHappy PeopleUnhappy People Author:Jim Carrey