Cramps Quotes - Page 2

• Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Pain, Feelings, Suffering

  "Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1985.

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• You can run but you can't hide... but I can try. I feel air catch in my lungs and I get a cramp in my side and this pain, this wonderful physical pain that I can place, reminds me that after all I am still alive.

  Jodi Picoult

  Running, Pain, Air

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• wishes for sons by Lucille Clifton i wish them cramps. i wish them a strange town and the last tampon. I wish them no 7-11. i wish them one week early and wearing a white skirt. i wish them one week late. later i wish them hot flashes and clots like you wouldn't believe. let the flashes come when they meet someone special. let the clots come when they want to. let them think they have accepted arrogance in the universe, then bring them to gynecologists not unlike themselves.

  Lucille Clifton

  Believe, Son, Thinking

  Lucille Clifton (1991). “Quilting: poems, 1987-1990”, BOA Editions Ltd.

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• I got ready for bed and crawled in. The covers were comfortable and warm, but the pillow was just too weird. It gave me neck cramps, so I put it on the floor and went to sleep without it. My first big mistake.

  Rick Riordan

  Mistake, Sleep, Bed

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that cramp they didn't really want anyway such as refrigerators, TV sets, cars, at least new fancy cars, certain hair oils and deodorants and general junk you finally always see a week later in the garbage anyway, all of them imprisoned in a system of work, produce, consume, work, produce, consume.

  Jack Kerouac

  Hair, Fancy Cars, Oil

  "The Dharma Bums". Book by Jack Kerouac, Ch. 13, 1958.

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• Cuddling was for great aunts and teddy bears. Cuddling gave him cramp.

  David Nicholls

  Sex, Aunt, Cuddling

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• Towards the end of your life you have something like a pain schedule to fill out - a long schedule like a federal document, only it's your pain schedule. Endless categories. First, physical causes - like arthritis, gallstones, menstrual cramps. New category, injured vanity, betrayal, swindle, injustice. But the hardest items of all have to do with love. The question then is: So why does everybody persist? If love cuts them up so much.

  Saul Bellow

  Pain, Betrayal, Cutting

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• I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw.

  Scott Adams

  Hands, Drawing, Fancy

  "An Interview with the “Dilbert” Cartoonist Scott Adams" by Zachary Kanin, www.newyorker.com. October 27, 2008.

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• You want to know what pain is? Try running out of Advil when you've got a Category Five period. I've had cramps that would make grown men beg for a bullet between the eyes." - Jennifer, "Beauty Queens

  Libba Bray

  Running, Queens, Pain

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• I guess mercy is a muscle like any other. You got to exercise it, or it just cramp right up.

  Esi Edugyan

  Exercise, Mercy, Muscles

  Esi Edugyan (2012). “Half-Blood Blues: A Novel”, p.230, Macmillan

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• I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Hate, Body, Treachery

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.17, Hamilton Books

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• With a resigned shrug, she screamed and collapsed into a faint. She stayed resolutely fainted, despite the liberal application of smelling salts, which made her eyes water most tremendously, a cramp in the back of one knee, and the fact that her new ball gown was getting most awfully wrinkled.

  Gail Carriger

  Eye, Water, Gowns

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• I remember when my mother taught me about my menstrual cycle and pregnancy. She, like millions of other mothers before and since, did not have the words or the experience to teach me about the miraculous cycle in my body - the cycle that is responsible for all human life on our planet and connects us to the moon and the tides. Nor did she have the words to teach me about the gift of sensual pleasure that is the birthright of all girls. If she had, my life surely would have been different. For one, I probably would not have suffered from devastating menstrual cramps for decades.

  Christiane Northrup

  Girl, Mother, Pregnancy

  Source: www.drfranklipman.com

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• Look on the bee upon the wing 'mong flowers;
  How brave, how bright his life! then mark, him hiv'd,
  Cramp'd, cringing in his self-built, social cell,
  Thus it is in the world-hive; most where men
  Lie deep in cities as in drifts.

  Philip James Bailey

  Lying, Flower, Men

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• Shun fear, it is the ague of the soul! a passion man created for himself--for sure that cramp of nature could not dwell in the warm realms of glory.

  Aaron Hill

  Fear, Passion, Men

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• Idleness and constancy fix the mind to what it finds easy and agreeable. This habit always confines and cramps up our knowledge; and no one has ever taken the trouble to stretch and carry his understanding as far as it could go.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Taken, Knowledge, Understanding

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• I feel like my endurance is actually better. Especially trying to get down to 140, I was experiencing body cramps.

  Lamont Peterson

  Trying, Endurance, Body

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• Actually, now I don't even eat that much anymore. If you tried to follow me now, you'd be in trouble. You wouldn't be able to follow through on life during the day. You wouldn't focus. You'd get brain cramps, probably.

  Robby Albarado

  Focus, Brain, Able

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• I find that biographical material holds me back, hampers my creative process, cramps my imagination.

  Yuriy Tarnawsky

  Imagination, Creative, Hamper

  "No Tall Tales". Interview with David Moscovich, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.

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• It becomes tricky, and you start to think about the cramps rather than just actually what you're trying to do on the court, which is obviously win the match.

  Andy Murray

  Thinking, Winning, Trying

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• It was a match I lost, rather than she won [on Serena Williams winning with an apparent cramp injury at Wimbledon

  Daniela Hantuchova

  Winning, Wimbledon, Injury

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• Set up your study or picture in an orderly fashion. This order should not cramp either the linearist or the colorist... Never lose sight of that first impression by which you were moved.

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Fashion, Sight, Order

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• I have a pathological terror of falling through ice. I nearly drowned once. I fell off a boat and got a cramp, and was rescued by an oil-rig diver, a great bear of a man who simply leant into the water and scooped me out with one finger.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Fall, Men, Ice

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• A curse on every wish that blurs the sight, paralyzes the tongue, cramps the hand, and prevents the truth being seen, said, and written.

  Theodor Haecker

  Sight, Hands, Wish

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• When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one had died of writer's cramp, the other was completely bald.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hair, Two, America

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