Emmeline Pankhurst Quotes

There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.

Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.

Honestly, I thought I was going to be a kite forever, suffocating inside a little feathery prison. And he had the nerve to make fun!

I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.

That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.

In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind.

The day-to-day discomforts of prison life, combined with the big-picture realities of mass incarceration, do not add up to a party.

Being in a five-by-seven every day for 365 days a year is more than what the average man could stand. You weren't built to be in a cage that long.

There are only so many ways to experience pain. There are an almost limitless number of ways to inflict it, but the pain itself, initially vividly distinct in all its specifications, becomes, inevitably, just pain.

In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.

Most suffering is human-made and avoidable. It's mostly in your head.

Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.

The mind grows sicker than the body in contemplation of it's suffering.

I built a jail in my closet and I would incarcerate my family from time to time.

Everything turns on pain; the rest is accessory, even nonexistent, for we remember only what hurts. Painful sensations being the only real ones, it is virtually useless to experience others.

Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

I try to write about the stuff that torments us all.

Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.

You can only exist as far as your mind will allow you to exist, and I think chronic pain will stop time dead in its tracks. You feel like you're the only one, and how unfair it is, and a million different feel-sorry-for-yourself type feelings.

Going to prison is like dying with your eyes open.

I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.

On some days in prison you might just need to get out of there, but on some days - not all days, but some - you might be able to see the sky and see the blue in it.

The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.

People have so much pain inside them that they're not even aware of.