Mental Pain Quotes

“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say 'My tooth is aching' than to say 'My heart is broken'. Yet if the cause is accepted and faced, the conflict will strengthen and purify the character and in time the pain will usually pass. Sometimes, however, it persists and the effect is devastating; if the cause is not faced or not recognised, it produces the dreary state of the chronic neurotic. But some by heroism overcome even chronic mental pain. They often produce brilliant work and strengthen, harden, and sharpen their characters till they become like tempered steel.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

“We will not read of that which hurts our pride or fears or 'feelings'. We forget, or gloss over, or excuse, an experience which injured the tentacles of our personality. We forget the pscyhiatrist's definition of a neurosis as 'refused pain'. In the same way we escape from mental pain. We refuse to believe what we do not like.”
― Christmas Humphreys, The Buddhist way of life

“Mental suffering is an inferno started, and kept burning, by thinking; and its smoke sometimes leaves one crying.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Physical pain was almost always hot, but the kind that couldn't be seen?

It was almost always cold.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“The present isn’t more capable of causing mental pain than the past or the future.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“...mental, emotional pain is like... like bathing in ice on the coldest day.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash