75 Migraine Quotes

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Famous Migraine Quotes

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

I can't tell you how many shows I've done with full-blown migraine headaches. — Jonathan Taylor Thomas

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

You can’t get a headache from abundance. — Polish Proverbs

The most dangerous heart disease:
strong memory - Nizar Qabbani

The most dangerous heart disease: strong memory — Nizar Qabbani

Is it not meningitis? — Louisa May Alcott

I'm a hypochondriac. Yesterday it was brain damage from the vodka the night before. Today, heart attack - my arm and chest started hurting at the same time. — Lisa Marie Presley

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body. - Publilius Syrus

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body. — Publilius Syrus

And I sit here without identity: faceless. My head aches. — Sylvia Plath

A hangover is the wrath of grapes. - Dorothy Parker

A hangover is the wrath of grapes. — Dorothy Parker

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache. — Lewis Carroll

I feel like I have a hangover, without all the happy memories and mystery bruises. — Ellen DeGeneres

After enough concussions the head injuries blur together. — James Nicoll

...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain. — Hippocrates

Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain. — William Styron

Short Migraine Quotes

  • There's always another story. There's more than meets the eye. — W. H. Auden
  • That no one dies of migraine seems, to someone deep into an attack, an ambiguous blessing. — Joan Didion
  • After I saw the first thing I ever did, I got a migraine. — Claire Forlani
  • Every once in a while when I get a migraine, I like to think, "Who hates me today?" — Heidi Julavits
  • I never had migraines. Never had migraines. — David Gest
  • With a canvas I'm a group of seven. A migraine, take two Excedrin. — Drake
  • I got a bad migraine that lasted 3 years, and the pills I took made by fingers disappear. — David Bowie
  • Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara. — Plutarch
  • What I do for migraines when I get them, I listen to classical music, and I turn it up really loud. — Ian McLagan
  • Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. — Neil Gaiman

Migraine Image Quotes

Headache Quotes

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache. - Catherine II

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache. — Catherine II

Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead — Beck

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache. - Tertullian

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache. — Tertullian

When you go to bed with a clear head, you will not get up with a headache — Greek Proverbs

Good parenting give headaches but bad parenting gives heartaches. - Shiv Khera

Good parenting give headaches but bad parenting gives heartaches. — Shiv Khera

A guy complains of a headache. Another guy says, Do what I do. I put my head on my wife's bosom, and the headache goes away. The next day, the man says, Did you do what I told you to? Yes, I sure did. By the way, you have a nice house! — Henny Youngman

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

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

What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whit- man, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon. In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations! — Allen Ginsberg

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache. — Philip Wylie

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More Migraine Quotes

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

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 on Faraday’s Law

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links, Behind the lady who dances and the man who madly drinks, Under the look of fatigue, the attack of migraine and the sigh There is always another story, there is more than meets the eye. — W. H. Auden

Hot, dry katabatic winds, like the south foehn in Europe, the sharav in the Middle East, and the Santa Ana of Southern California, are all believed to have a decided effect on human behavior and are associated with such health problems as migraines, depression, lethargy, and moodiness. Some scientists say that this is a myth. — Tim Cahill

Although I was too young to understand the theory of universal (that's to say male) guilt, I was old enough to know which sex suffered migraine and which sex caused it. — Howard Jacobson

Grim sighed heavily. "I swear I'm getting a migraine." "My mom suffers from those a lot, too." "Being around you, I imagine she does. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome, pain, arthritis of the knee, migraine, asthma. — Irving Kirsch

Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city. — Neil Gaiman

This is a soul under perpetual migraine attack. — Richard Schickel

Because I work at other things, whenever I get a chance to write I feel grateful for it. But I learned that sometimes, I couldn't do anything else and I shouldn't plan to do anything that night or the next day. There were times when I was writing something difficult for days or weeks and when I'd finish, I would get up and go out of my shed into the garden and be sick. I had terrible migraines. — Damian Barr

I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools. — E. Lockhart

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

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

Twenty minutes in the morning, 20 in the evening. Transcendental Meditation teachers have taught everyone in my company who wanted to learn how to meditate. The results have been awesome. Better sleep. Improved relationships with spouses, children, coworkers. Some people who once suffered migraines don't anymore. Greater productivity and creativity all around. — Oprah Winfrey

Being pulled that long and that hard for a 12-hour day gave me migraines. It's what they used to do before there were facelifts for actresses – you know, Joan Crawford's whole career was this. Then the makeup is like Earl Scheib auto body paint sprayed on my face. — Rob Lowe

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

A migraine is the cockblock of writing. — Don Roff

Diesel is back," Ranger said. Yes. How did you know?" I woke up with a migraine this morning." Ranger said. — Janet Evanovich

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