Headache Quotes - Page 3

• Getting punched in the face with a padded glove doesn't really hurt your face. It doesn't hurt your skull. The only thing it hurts is your brain. You can feel the brain injury happening. It's an instant headache.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Hurt, Skulls, Brain

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopeless unhappiness.

  Hans Selye

  Suicide, Stress, Heart

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• Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.

  William Beveridge

  Unemployment, Temperature, Causes

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• His most frequent ailment was the headache which he used to relieve by inhaling the steam of coffee.

  Samuel Johnson

  Coffee, Used, Steam

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• Gu was a worrier, a neurotic curmudgeon. If he had a headache, it was a brain tumor; if it looked like rain, this year's harvest was ruined. This was his way of controlling the situation, his lifelong strategy for always coming out ahead. Now, when reality looked more dire than any of his fatalisitic predictions, he had no choice but to turn tail and charge in the opposite direction.

  Max Brooks

  Rain, Reality, Years

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.11, Broadway Books

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• Ben & Jerry's ice cream will try to make some marijuana ice cream, resulting in thousands of people simultaneously getting and curing ice cream headaches.

  Peter Sagal

  Marijuana, Ice Cream, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• And in bed, deep inside the building, are all the headaches that won't go away. The failed kidneys, the rashes, the ragged-edged moles, the lumps on the breast, the coughs that have turned nasty. In the Marie Curie Ward on the fourth floor are the kids with cancer. Their bodies secretly and slowly being consumed. And then there's the mortuary, where the dead lie in refrigerated drawers with name tags on their feet.

  Jenny Downham

  Cancer, Lying, Kids

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don't do a lot of reading anymore except on tape.

  Tom Robbins

  Reading, Tape, Episodes

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• Nothing has ever been so painful or delicious as being so close to him and being unable to do anything about it: like eating ice cream so fast on a hot day you get a splitting headache.

  Lauren Oliver

  Valentines Day, Ice Cream, Hot

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.188, Hachette UK

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• Marijuana is like sex: If I don't do it
  every day I get a headache.

  Willie Nelson

  Sex, Marijuana, Ifs

  Willie Nelson, Bud Shrake (2000). “Willie: An Autobiography”, p.197, Cooper Square Press

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• It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had never hit those 61 homeruns... all it brought me was headaches.

  Roger Maris

  Baseball, Fun, Has Beens

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• When men lose against me, they always have a headache ... or things of that kind. I have never beaten a completely healthy man!

  Susan Polgar

  Funny, Women, Humorous

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• If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Growing Up, Parenting

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1868). “John Ploughman's Talk; or, plain advice for plain people”, p.35

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• The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.

  Plutarch

  Kings, Crowns, Sometimes

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• A television advertisement must illustrate the scientific method to substantiate any claim.... That is why stains are lifted, ring-around-the-collar is removed, paper towels become soaked, excess stomach acid is absorbed, and headaches go away-all during the commercial.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Going Away, Scientific Method

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• I used to have two double espressos a day. I gave that up, had headaches for five days but now I'm feeling great.

  Hugo Weaving

  Espresso, Two, Feelings

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• Big studio comedies are such a headache.

  Penelope Spheeris

  Comedy, Bigs, Studios

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• My life is singing. I don't plan on retiring. I plan to die on a stage. I can have a headache but when it's time to sing and I step on that stage there is no more headache.

  Celia Cruz

  Singing, Steps, Life Is

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• If I don't have a woman for three days, I get terrible headaches.

  John F. Kennedy

  Presidential, Three, Presidents Day

  Conversation with Harold Macmillan, in Bermuda, in 1961. "President Kennedy: Profile of Power". Book by Richard Reeves, 1993.

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• Did you love well what very soon you left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache. Never so full, I never was bereft so utterly. The winter evenings drift dark to the window. Not one work will make you, where you are, turn in your day, or wake from your night toward me. The only gift I got to keep or give is what I've cried, floodgates let down to mourning for the dead chances, for the end of being young, for everyone I loved who really died. I drank our one year out in brine instead of honey from the seasons of your tongue.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Broken Heart, Home, Winter

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• I’m fortunate to have found out early, in 1990, just two years after I retired, that I have neurological damage. I try to manage it. I know what can trigger headaches and try to avoid it. I have short term memory problems, so I make a special effort to remember people and names. I have to work harder, but it’s important.

  Harry Carson

  Memories, Hard Work, Names

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• The bigger the headache, the bigger the pill.

  George Clinton

  Pills, Bigger

  Song: Bop Gun

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• Love is an incurable malady like those pathetic states in which rheumatism affords the sufferer a brief respite only to be replaced by epileptiform headaches.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, States, Respite

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• I got a head full of headaches, a heart that's full of woes.
  I'm constantly singin' them down home blues, and not many people knows
  That leaves me with a twisted view of the whole wide world as I know it...
  And I guess I got no choice but to be a poet.

  Aceyalone

  Rap, Home, Heart

  Song: Headaches and Woes

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• Negative thoughts were treated by Cherokee healers with the same medicines as wounds, headaches, or physical illness. It was believed that unchecked negative thoughts can permeate the being and manifest themselves in negative actions.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Medicine, Negativity, Negative

  Wilma Mankiller, Gloria Steinem (2016). “Every Day Is a Good Day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women”, p.47, Fulcrum Publishing

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