I'm probably the only person in the world that feels physical pain as a reaction to joy.

Kara Lee Corthron
About This Quote

People often have a habit of being happy for themselves when they feel good. They say things like, “I’m so in love right now!” or “I just got this awesome new job!” Yet, in reality, it is not that good. It is because they are just feeling happy. They do not realize that they are experiencing physical pain in their bodies.

When you feel joy in your body, you are experiencing physical pain. You start to feel it when you get excited or happy. You feel it when you laugh or when you run around the block.

It is different because it does not come from happiness but from physical pain in your body. Another way to look at this is to say that the only people who do not feel pain are dead people.

Source: The Truth Of Right Now

Some Similar Quotes
  1. I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but... - Haruki Murakami
  2. If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him... - Paulo Coelho
  3. The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. - Ernest Hemingway
  4. Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart. - Unknown
  5. One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. - Sophocles
More Quotes By Kara Lee Corthron
  1. If I know that I can do something that makes me happy, why do I allow myself to get so depressed?
  2. Knowledge is not always power.
  3. You never know. Somebody can seem cool and then you look in their music library and there's Katy Perry.
  4. Saturday-morning cartoon sure aren't what they used to be. The animation is lazy. Too clean. He misses being able to detect pencil lines and paint strokes in his favorite cartoon characters, his mind never quite separating the creatures from the art that brought them to...
  5. I'm probably the only person in the world that feels physical pain as a reaction to joy.
Related Topics