Migraine Quotes

• Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting out reason.

  Robert Graves

  Love, Vision, Reason

  Robert Graves (2013). “Selected Poems”, p.159, Faber & Faber

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• And I have learned now to live with it, learned when to expect it, how to outwit it, even how to regard it, when it does come, as more friend than lodger. We have reached a certain understanding, my migraine and I.

  Joan Didion

  Pain, Understanding, Doe

  Joan Didion (2006). “We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction”, Everyman's Library

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• Every once in a while when I get a migraine, I like to think, "Who hates me today?"

  Heidi Julavits

  Hate, Thinking, Today

  "The Brilliant Complications of Heidi Julavits". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

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• That no one dies of migraine seems, to someone deep into an attack, an ambiguous blessing.

  Joan Didion

  Pain, Blessing, Illness

  Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.113, Zola Books

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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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• I had a migraine for about seven or eight straight days, and I was unable to sleep most nights.

  April Winchell

  Sleep, Night, Eight

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• If migraine patients have a common and legitimate second complaint besides their migraines, it is that they have not been listened to by physicians. Looked at, investigated, drugged, charged, but not listened to.

  Oliver Sacks

  Science, Medicine, Physicians

  Oliver Sacks (2013). “Migraine”, p.309, Vintage

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• I can't tell you how many shows I've done with full-blown migraine headaches.

  Jonathan Taylor Thomas

  Acting, Done, Headache

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• After I saw the first thing I ever did, I got a migraine.

  Claire Forlani

  Saws, Firsts

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• My daughter is a real migraine sufferer; the minute she has a handful of Haribo sweets, she gets a headache. Theres a connection between what the liver cant break down with what goes on to trigger a headache. You just have to be aware.

  Sheherazade Goldsmith

  Daughter, Sweet, Real

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• Right there is the usefulness of migraine, there in that imposed yoga, the concentration on the pain. For when the pain recedes, ten or twelve hours later, everything goes with it, all the hidden resentments, all the vain anxieties. The migraine has acted as a circuit breaker, and the fuses have emerged intact. There is a pleasant convalescent euphoria.

  Joan Didion

  Pain, Yoga, Anxiety

  Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.115, Zola Books

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• So what’s on the agenda for tonight? (Danger) Migraine, futility, possible death. Same as every night, I guess. (Alexion)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Night, Agendas, Danger

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• I got a bad migraine that lasted 3 years, and the pills I took made by fingers disappear.

  David Bowie

  Years, Alcohol, Drug

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• I didn't feel physically sick. But mentally. My mind was twisting in so many ways. (...) We once saw a documentary on migraines. One of the men interviewed used to fall on his knees and bang his head against the floor, over and over during attacks. This diverted the pain from deep inside his brain, where he couldn't reach it, to a pain outside that he had control over.

  Jay Asher

  Pain, Fall, Men

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• With a canvas I'm a group of seven. A migraine, take two Excedrin.

  Drake

  Humble, Two, Groups

  Song: Ignorant Shit, Album: So Far Gone, 2009

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• Love is universal migraine, A bright stain on the vision Blotting out reason. Symptoms of true love Are leanness, jealousy, Laggard dawns; Are omens and nightmares - Listening for a knock, Waiting for a sign: For a touch of her fingers In a darkened room, For a searching look. Take courage, lover! Could you endure such pain At any hand but hers?

  Robert Graves

  Pain, Love Is, Hands

  Robert Graves, Beryl Graves, Dunstan Ward (1999). “Complete poems”, Carcanet Pr

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• There's always another story. There's more than meets the eye.

  W. H. Auden

  Eye, Stories, More Than Meets The Eye

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.86, DEBOLS!LLO

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• Hiding my migraines on the set may have been my toughest challenge as an actor. There were times when the pain from migraine headaches was so severe that I literally had to crawl across my dressing room floor. But I couldnt let anyone know. If they thought I might slow production, I figured that would end my career.

  Morgan Fairchild

  Pain, Careers, Challenges

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• I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools.

  E. Lockhart

  Suffering, Fool

  E. Lockhart (2014). “We Were Liars”, p.18, Delacorte Press

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• It is time to return to close reading, to a serious and painstaking examination of an author's methods, of his style. Do not be deterred by headaches. First of all, this would be proof of your lack of stamina. And then, migraines, piercing pain and sudden stabs at the temples are more likely the effects of syphilis than of hard work.

  Louis Aragon

  Pain, Reading, Hard Work

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• At the very last moment, just before its lips claimed hers, its grip on her face relaxed slightly and she did the only thing she could think of: She head-butted it. Snapped her head back, then forward again, and bashed it square in the face as hard as she could. So hard, in fact, that it made her woozy and gave her an instant migraine, making her wonder how Jean-Claude Van Damme always managed to coolly continue fighting after such a stunt. Obviously, movies lied.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Fighting, Thinking, Squares

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.1297, Dell

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• What triggered a migraine for me may have no effect on someone else. For many people, coffee can relieve symptoms somewhat, but for me it was a trigger. You really have to find out what affects you individually.

  Morgan Fairchild

  Coffee, People, May

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• No problem, but just know that no one steals from Nero. He knows who you are and he will hunt you down and make you pay in ways you can’t imagine – including this whole brain squeeze thing he does that will leave you with a migraine so bad, you’ll wish you could bleed out your eyes to stop the pain. He’s nasty that way. (Syn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Pain, Eye, Brain

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Fire”, p.447, Macmillan

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• If I apply a magnetic pulse on salt water - that's your brains by the way - it'll generate electric currents, and the electric current in the brain can erase a migraine headache.

  Robert Fischell

  Water, Brain, Pulse

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• I never had migraines. Never had migraines.

  David Gest

  "Love on the rocks". "Dateline NBC" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. February 6, 2014.

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