It was clear from their spirited reaction that they had a connoisseur's appreciation of self-inflicted pain.

Maybe the self-inflicted pain would help me clear my thought processes.

And because they see each other so clearly, their self-inflicted pain is constant.

At least the embarrassment drove out some of her self-inflicted pain.

He then meets another student with a troubled background, who may be the person to help him stop his self-inflicted pain.

I mentioned before the link between comfort and self-inflicted pain, the desire to hold on because suffering was preferable to forgetting.

As in the past, there was a sense of self-inflicted pain, almost as if part of England were willing itself to lose.

Now that foundation had crumbled and she was left standing on the sharp rocks of her self-inflicted pain.

The Falls were born of her despair, her self-inflicted pain.

We have been put here to enjoy the blessings in life, not cry about the curse of our self-inflicted pain.