Quotes about Emotional Pain

Social rejection doesn't just cause emotional pain; it affects our physical being. Votes: 5

If you desire to know where your spiritual work lies, look to your emotional pain. Votes: 4

I look at emotional pain as something we need to go through in order to grow and learn. Votes: 4

I try to get through emotional pain and not go around it, it always ends sooner that way. I also use chocolate. Votes: 4

Lack of self-worth is the fundamental source of all emotional pain. A feeling of insecurity, unworthiness and lack of valueis the core experience of powerlessness. Votes: 4

As long as you are unable to access the power of the Now, every emotional pain that you experience leaves behind a residue of pain that lives on in you. Votes: 4

By accepting life before it happens, and letting go of your inner resistance to all things you cannot change, you unlock true emotional freedom from all of your self-imposed emotional pain. Votes: 4

When we're rational about rule-breaking we set a limit. You don't get 30 years in prison for a traffic ticket. But sometimes you sentence yourself to months or years of emotional pain over minor offenses. Votes: 4

The attainment of enlightenment makes you happy forever. It frees you from the mental and emotional pains that human beings experience every day. You live in a condition of ecstasy, brightness and joy all of the time. Votes: 4

There are other kinds of emotional pain that emerge from our own mistaken thinking. As we surrender that pain, we are inviting into our thought system a guide who will lead us to different thoughts. It's like the song "Amazing Grace": I was blind and now I see. Votes: 4

Alcohol and drugs are not the problems; they are what people are using to help themselves cope with the problems. Those problems always have both physical and psychological components- anything from anemia, hypoglycemia, or a sluggish thyroid to attention deficient disorder, brain-wave pattern imbalances, or deep emotional pain. Votes: 4

The reason writers are such fragile beings, Marcus, is that they suffer from two sorts of emotional pain, which is twice as much as a normal human being: the heartache of love and the heartache of books. Writing a book is like loving someone. It can be very painful. Votes: 4

I look for women I know are gonna bust me up good. Come on, man, who can resist that? Who can resist that emotional pain? Yeah, they all have the same line, they're so sweet: I'm not gonna hurt you like all the others. Really I'm not. I'm gonna introduce you to a whole new level of pain! Votes: 4

The very same brain centers that interpret and feel physical pain also become activated during experiences of emotional rejection. In brain scans, they light up in response to social ostracism, just as they would when triggered by physically harmful stimuli. When people speak of feeling hurt or of having emotional pain, they are not being abstract or poetic, but scientifically quite precise. Votes: 4

I grew up bar-singing and saw all kinds of ways people tried to outrun their emotional pain. It doesn't work. You end up with the original pain, as well as new pain added on top of it from the tactics you used trying to avoid it in the first place. It's best to take a deep breath, bolster yourself, and walk through it. Votes: 4

Notice what happens when you doubt, suppress, or act contrary to your feelings. You will observe decreased energy, powerless or helpless feelings, and physical or emotional pain. Now notice what happens when you follow your intuitive feelings. Usually the result is increased energy and power and a sense of natural flow. When you're at one with yourself, the world feels peaceful, exciting, and magical. Votes: 4

Exercising can exorcise emotional pain. Votes: 3

I handle my emotional pain with music and old movies, preferably Westerns. Votes: 3

Time doesn't heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go. Votes: 3

Unresolved emotional pain is the great contagion of our time "” of all time. Votes: 3

I accept emotional pain, walk through it, and then come through the other side. Votes: 3

When you're in pain, you're genuinely very, very alive, and that's beautiful. Especially emotional pain. Votes: 3

When I really need it, talking is the best way to deal with emotional pain. Votes: 3

Often, parents feel overwhelmed. Many must accomplish the whole job single-handedly while bearing all of the emotional pain of divorce. Votes: 3

I try to make sure I have a helpful perspective so when emotional pain comes up, it doesn't get out of hand. Votes: 3

I don't know if there is any specific way to handle emotional pain. Loved ones, music, and self-medicating seem to help me. Votes: 3

I try to go through it [emotional pain]; understanding is going to take me to a better place. And I do hot yoga. Votes: 3

When I'm in emotional pain, I usually embrace the pain, cry, and let it all out. Then I try to look on the bright side. Votes: 3

In order to handle my emotional pain I talk to friends about it, I write, I breathe, and most of all, I put it in perspective. Votes: 3

When faced with emotional pain, I become still for hours, sometimes days, doing absolutely nothing. It helps me get to the truest source of my suffering. Votes: 3

I deal with emotional pain through therapy, writing, therapy in music. I think emotional pain is best dealt with when you use art to express it. Votes: 3

I am not saying that I am different, but I don't have emotional pain. I may be angry and I may be peaceful, but no emotional pain. Votes: 3

The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend. Votes: 3

They're simply seeking an interlude from emotional pain and searing mental agony, a sleep from which they'll awaken to discover they're the person they always wanted to be. Votes: 3

I write songs to handle emotional pain. I guess what they say is true: with every heartache comes a great song. I also pray and have great friends. Votes: 3

Symptoms like anxiety, depression, aggression, alcohol or drug use, are responses to physical and emotional pain that has its roots in traumatic experiences from childhood and later in life. Votes: 3

I handle emotional pain by trying to understand that it's going to be painful and to allow for it instead of fighting it. Doesn't make it any easier, though. Votes: 3

I'm pretty cerebral, so I can occasionally rationalize emotional pain away, but when I can't, that's when I start to feel the fire inside take over and somehow manage to power through. Votes: 3

Nobody has ever killed themselves over a broken arm. But every day, thousands of people kill themselves because of a broken heart. Why? Because emotional pain hurts much worse than physical pain. Votes: 3

It seems nobody really talks about what we do with our emotional pain. Only the ascendant perhaps, who have learned how to fully meditate or do yoga or whatever through their emotional pain. Votes: 3

I handle my emotional pain by changing my mind-set. Exercising can exorcise emotional pain. Prayer and meditation. Visualization. Being able to talk about it by opening yourself to loved ones or a professional. Votes: 3

Differentiating from parental introjects and psychological defences based on the emotional pain of childhood is essential not only for neurotic or seriously disturbed individuals; it is a central developmental issue in every person’s life. Votes: 3

I’d have much rather gotten dragged into someone else’s fight than face what was waiting for me. Other people’s emotional pain, no matter how painful, is so much less painful than your own. Votes: 3

When I am confronted with emotional pain, I try to allow myself the time to properly grieve. We are caring, emotional beings, and attempting to suppress pain will only cause it to negatively manifest itself in other ways. Votes: 3

Sometimes it's binge eating as a method to handle emotional pain. I'll also write very sporadically - music, lyrics - to identify the problem. There are a few cathartic processes I've alternated randomly. There's no default. Each emotional experience elicits a different, possibly new response. Votes: 3

I do my best to allow myself to really feel it [emotional pain]. Cry. Get all in it. Really experience my experience so that I may move through it. And talk about it. I try not to let anything get brushed over and swept under the rug. Votes: 3

My biggest emotional defeat and the greatest emotional pain I've had as an actor was when 'Wild Wild West' opened up to $52 million. The movie wasn't good. And it hurt so bad to be the No. 1 movie, to open at $52 million and to know the movie wasn't good. Votes: 3

I choose to not ignore or push away emotional pain. Instead, I allow it to move through me. Sometimes, that's quietly working on a puzzle and listening to an all-strings Pandora station, and others, it's being vulnerable with a trusted friend. Either way, I let it have its place. Votes: 3

Emotional pain of any kind is a reminder to stop and look inside. Votes: 2

In terms of withstanding incredible amounts of pain - both physical and emotional - I don't think there's any better training than ballet. Votes: 1

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before. Votes: 1

The Savior has suffered not just for our iniquities but also for the inequality, the unfairness, the pain, the anguish, and the emotional distresses that so frequently beset us. Votes: 1

I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm very vulnerable. Votes: 1

Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life. Votes: 1

With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character. Votes: 1

If I have any complaints about my youth... one is that many well-meaning adults lied to me. Not spiteful lies with malicious intent but lies designed to prevent emotional and psychological pain - lies told by the people who cared about me most: my parents, teachers, relatives. Votes: 1

Pain is like a healing emotional fever. Votes: 0

Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting. Votes: 0

There's nothing like a little physical pain to keep your mind off your emotional problems. Votes: 0

Emotional pain, physical damage, financial weakness are the reasons to stop for a while and not forever. Votes: 0

To care only about your pain and suffering, and disregard the emotional toll of others is hypocritically sub-human. Votes: 0

Pain (any pain-emotional, physical, mental) has a message. Once we get the pains message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away. Votes: 0

I am an emotional plagiarist, stealing other people's pain, subsuming it into my own until I can't remember whose it is any more. Votes: 0

Emotional pain makes me want to isolate. Or hit back. It's very tough to rise above my natural inclinations. I'm always working on this. Votes: 0

The only thing that gets me through any type of pain, emotional or physical, is to make it worthwhile by putting it into my work. Votes: 0

Emotional pain is sometimes what we make of it. We can always choose how we react. No matter what the pain, breathing always centers me. Votes: 0

I define myself and grow as a person through emotional torment, so if you love me, you will inflict as much pain on me as you possibly can. Votes: 0

Words cause pain, they evoke anger, they make us hate, they lead us to war. But they also make us laugh, bring us joy, and satisfying our emotional hungers. Votes: 0