Sylvia Plath Quotes

They discovered that even in the face of pain that seems unbearable, even in the face of pain that wrings the last drop of blood out of your heart and leaves its scrimshaw tracery on the inside of your skull, life goes on. And pain grows dull, and begins to fade

Pain is to be endured. It ends or it does not.

Most people fear pain. I've learned that not feeling pain is a much more frightening proposition than feeling it. In fact, there are times when I'm playing when I actually enjoy it.

There's no way that I know of to avoid pain absolutely, but suffering is the interpretation we choose to place on the pain we encounter.

Indeed, sir, he that sleeps feels not the toothache; but a man that were to sleep your sleep, and a hangman to help him to bed, I think he would change places with his officer; for look you, sir, you know not which way you shall go.

I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.

My dad lived with pain his whole life.

When you have His joy in your heart, it doesn't necessarily mean your pain or hurt will be taken away. It means you'll be able to bear it.

Pain is a part of being alive, and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily unbeatable, and we need to be taught that.

Physical pain is problematic because it's very difficult to transcend that. Sometimes you're just in physical pain, and that's a bummer. Even then, there are beautiful things involved in the healing of that. I've experienced some.

Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.

The pain doesn't go away. You just make room for it.

There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single attack exhaust itself; pain always makes single attacks, so that its bite may be more intense, more concentrated. And you, while its fangs are implanted and injecting their venom at one spot, do not forget to offer it another place where it can bite you, and so relieve the pain of the first.

Don’t worry about me handling the pain," I say. "I’ve had a lot of practice.

When you have so much pain, you think you will lose consciousness. If you say to yourself, ‘So what, lose consciousness,’ the pain goes away.

All pain is the same.

Pleasure is hard to come by, but pain is everywhere these days, I must learn to subsist on it.

I have never felt any pain that I can remember.

Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of everything, even pain.

Pain has no effect but to steal some of my time.

Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional

I never take medication for pain. I want to know if the pain is getting better or worse.

Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain.

Pain isn't always the enemy.