I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.
I have some muscle on me where I can take those hits.
When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable.
Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother's voice took away all the grief out of the words and left me with a conviction that pain was not only endurable, it was sweet.
Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!
We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.
... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out.
I can handle pain.
You believe you could not live with the pain. Such pain is not lived with. It is only endured. I am sorry.
If it will be an intolerable thing to suffer the heat of fire for a year or a day, or an hour, what will it be to suffer ten thousand times more for ever? What if thou wert to suffer Lawrence 's death, to be roasted upon a gridiron; or to be scraped or pricked to death as other martyrs were; or if thou wert to feed upon toads for a year together? If thou couldst not endure such things as these, how wilt thou endure the eternal flames ?
My dad lived with pain his whole life.
If there's one thing I've shown, I'm not scared of physicality. I'm not scared to take some of my own blood. I play hurt; I play injured.
Pain ... after you've lived with it long enough, isn't pain anymore. It's something else.
No matter how much bullying they inflict on my body, as long as I have this hope, I can endure any pain.
Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.
I can take more pain than anyone.
Cut out the eye from a photograph of one who has been loved but is seen no more. Attach the eye to the pendulum of a metronome and regulate the weight to suit the tempo desired. Keep going to the limit of endurance. With a hammer well-aimed, try to destroy the whole at a single blow.
Seal my lips on aches and pains. They are increasing, and love of rehearsing them is becoming sweeter as the years go by.
Kids piercing themselves, piercing their tongues, what kind of masochism is that? Is it to show you can just take it?
I find now, swallowing one teaspoon of pain, that it drops downward to the past where it mixes with last year’s cupful and downward into a decade’s quart and downward into a lifetime’s ocean. I alternate treading water and deadman’s float.
I never came out of a game unless I was truly hurt.
I have a high tolerance for pain.
Men,” she said as she took my arm and led me to the brightly lit room. “They forget we need to see the outcome of pain before we willingly put ourselves through it. How else would we suffer nine months to have a beautiful child? We already know we have guts.
...pain reaches a certain point and does not get worse but remains in all its intensity and you can survive it.
