Your pain is a school unto itself and your joy a lovely temple.
- Aberjhani
Woody Allen once said that 90 percent of life is about showing up. Ninety percent of healing people in psychological pain is shutting up - at least long enough to let them bleed the truth. That sounds easy, but it isn't. (68)
- Keith Ablow
The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
- Jacob Bronowski
Pain is the world. I don't have anywhere to run.
- Kathy Acker
Sometimes pain is for the greater good.
- Veronica Roth
I felt that pain is a woman's friend.'
'That is the danger.'
'I also felt that pain has it's limits.'
'That is the salvation. Don't forget that.
- Paulo Coelho
Pain is never added to pain. It multiplies.
- Sherman Alexie
The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Pain is only what you allow it to be
- Cassandra Clare
Pain is the body's way of telling the brain it's in trouble. Similarly, confusion is the brain's way of telling the body, 'All right, buddy, drop that book.
- Stephen Colbert
There is a fallacy that the powerful emotion of youth mellows with time. Not true. One learns to control and suppress it. But it doesn't lessen. It simply hides and concentrates itself in more discreet places. When one accidentally stumbles into one of these abysses, the pain is spectacular.
- Nicole Krauss
Your Blake is mourning something. I think that pain is manifesting as his glass-skin delusions. You're going to have to approach him as if he's in one of those tents I walk into. My advice is this: Listen, Livia. Listen to him. Saying words out loud can heal.
- Debra Anastasia
How much are you lifting?"
"Seven hundred."
Alright then. I will just stand over here, out of your way, and hope you don't remember my promisse to kick your ass.
He grinned. "Wanna spot me?"
"No thanks. How about I just scream verbal encouragements at you?" I took a deep breath and barked. "No pain, no gain! That pain is just weakness leaving your body! Come on! Push! Push! Make that weight your bitch!
- Ilona Andrews
All pain is the same.
- Oprah Winfrey
From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
- Michelangelo
Pain is life. Life is pain.
- Katherine Applegate
A lesson without pain is meaningless. That's because no one can gain without sacrificing something. But by enduring that pain and overcoming it, he shall obtain a powerful, unmatched heart. A fullmetal heart.
- Hiromu Arakawa
A lesson without pain is meaningless. For you cannot gain something without sacrificing something in return..
- Hiromu Arakawa
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
- Lance Armstrong
Cycling is so hard, the suffering is so intense, that it's absolutely cleansing. The pain is so deep and strong that a curtain descends over your brain....Once; someone asked me what pleasure I took in riding for so long. 'PLEASURE???? I said.' 'I don't understand the question.' I didn't do it for the pleasure; I did it for the pain.
- Lance Armstrong
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
- Lance Armstrong
Pain is not a medallion that you must weigh your bosom with,
it's a force you must fight against and never, never let it win
- Jyoti Arora
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
- Marcus Aurelius
Just because your pain is understandable, doesn't mean your behavior is acceptable.
- Steve Maraboli
...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
- Jane Austen
Pain is never permanent.
- Saint Teresa Of Avila
Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it.
- Javier Bardem
I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan.
- Javier Bardem
Let go of me, Celt, or I'll rip your arm off. And you know what? I don't care if I lose both of mine in the process. That's the difference between us. Pain is my friend and ally. You fear it. (Zarek)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
And neither do you, ciratile. you EVER try this shit again with me and mine, and i will rape and plunder the village ,and burn the motherfucker to the ground..." He looked around at the bodies on the floor. "And as you've seen here today there ain't nothing you bitches can do to stop me. Talk is cheap. Pain is free. And I'm peddling the shit out of it. so you come on and get some.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I know that pain is the one nobility / upon which Hell itself cannot encroach
- Charles Baudelaire
At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary.
- Albert Camus
Breakups hurt like a motherf*#ker, but they are not the end of the world. The pain is temporary, and if handled properly, they can even be life-changing.
- Greg Behrendt
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Haruki Murakami
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you're running and you think, 'Man, this hurts, I can't take it anymore. The 'hurt' part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.
- Haruki Murakami
This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and fear is real fear. The moon in the sky is no paper moon.
- Haruki Murakami
Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. It's like that frozen pain and my very existence are one.
The pain is an anchor, mooring me here.
- Haruki Murakami
To remind me, pain is the best teacher
- Holly Black
My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers that everyone is carrying around with them. Think of your pain like a big bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one.
- Francesca Lia Block
Pain is inevitable; lives come with pain. Suffering is not inevitable. If suffering is what happens when we struggle with our experience because of our inability to accept it, then suffering is an optional extra [p. 19].
- Sylvia Boorstein
Right Understanding means feeling terrible, remembering pain is finite, and taking some solace from that remembering. And, when things are pleasant, even splendidly pleasant, remembering impermanence doesn't diminish the experience--it enhances it [p. 33]
- Sylvia Boorstein
If I can't see around my personal story, I'll have no way to see sit in context: This is one event in a life of events. It is whatever it is, but it is temporal. The pain is terrible, but it won't last. I can manage it. or this joy is incredible, but it won't last. Celebrate it now! [pp. 104-105]
- Sylvia Boorstein
one pain is cured by another. catch some new infection in your eye and the poison of the old one would die.
- William Shakespeare
One fire burns out another's burning,
One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.
- William Shakespeare
You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.
- Simon Van Booy
Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.
- Tara Brach
There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.
- Bill Bradley
Pain is fear, and I'm not afraid.
- Ann Brashares
You want to know what pain is? Try running out of Advil when you've got a Category Five period. I've had cramps that would make grown men beg for a bullet between the eyes."
- Jennifer, "Beauty Queens
- Libba Bray
Pain is the only reward for clinging to impossible dreams. (Harry Braxton)
- Connie Brockway
One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough.
- Charlie Brooker
pain is inevitable,suffering is optional...
we have bigger houses,but smaller families. More conveniences,but less time. We have knowledge,but less judgements; more experts,but more problems ; more medicines but less health.
- Dalai Lama
Pain is a part of growing-up. It is how we learn.
- Dan Brown
Our stories are different; our pain is the same.
- Betty Buckley
Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an idiot. There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help.
- Charles Bukowski
morning night and noon
the traffic moves through
and the murder and treachery
of friends and lovers
and all the people
move through you.
pain is the joy of knowing
the unkindest truth
that arrives without
warning.
life is being alone
death is being alone.
even the fools weep
morning night and noon.
- Charles Bukowski
pain is absurd because it exists, nothing more.
- Charles Bukowski
For standing between Cody and his pain is my obligation, and standing between my uncle and his pain is my rent, but the pain I coax from Bronte is my joy
- Neal Shusterman
From such a gentle thing,from such a fountain of all delight,my every pain is born..
- Michelangelo Buonarroti
Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it. (Harry Dresden)
- Jim Butcher
Pain is to be endured. It ends or it does not.
- Jim Butcher
Pain is a byproduct of life. That's the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That's true for everyone. But if you don't face the pain and the suck, you don't ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for.
- Jim Butcher
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
- Samuel Butler
I don't know why we insist on pain when pain is so often easy to eliminate. It's funny the ways we try to punish ourselves when we feel we've committed some crime.
- Deb Caletti
Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.
- Orson Scott Card
There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and forever, no on ewould save him from it. Peter might be scum, but Peter had been right, always right; the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.
- Orson Scott Card
The power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.
- Orson Scott Card
Do
you know what pain is, Cammie? It's the
body's physical response to imminent harm.
It is the mind's way of telling us to move our
hand off the stove or let go of the broken
glass.
- Ally Carter
Pain is weakness leaving the body
- Tera Lynn Childs
The loss of a loved one is like the loss of a part of oneself; an arm or a leg. At first, the pain is so physical that it is hard to ignore. The trauma is so intense that the mind finds it hard to cope with the loss. With time the pain eases, the body recovers and the brain figures out new ways to go on.
- Federico Chini
When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the noise they make. The other half is the terror at being forced to accept that they exist.
- Noah Cicero
All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.
- Emile M Cioran
Pain is nothing, just a warning signal from the body to the brain. Pain is no more the real thing than an X-ray photograph is the real thing. Biut of course he is wrong.
- J M Coetzee
Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.
- J M Coetzee
I wake up thinking of yesterday. The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday.
- David Levithan
If pain is a pot of boiling water, humor can be the rising steam.
- Cameron Conaway
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
- Cyril Connolly
So the question really is, Why doesn't that pain make you say, I won't do it again? When the pain is so bad that you have to say that, but you don't.
- Lydia Davis
One day at a time. You rise, you eat, you bathe, and you talk to the few people you can tolerate while feeling so wretched. Over time, it hurts a little less. Then a little less. And so on...Until one morning, you will awake and realize the pain is only a memory. It will always be with you, but it will eventually lack the power to cripple you.
- Sylvia Day
Closing down in the midst of pain is a denial of a man's true nature. A superior man is free in feeling and action, even
amidst great pain and hurt. If necessary, a man should live with a hurting heart rather than a closed one. He should
learn to stay in the wound of pain and act with spontaneous skill and love even from that place.
- David Deida
Keep your words. This pain is no life." "You only feel pain because you're alive, boy!" the keeper thundered. "This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff. Fall off and you might die, but run from it and you are already dead!
- Ted Dekker
Every pain is a lesson.
- Frank Delaney
Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it's worth.
- John Green
Pain is easy to write. In pain we're all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness?
- Graham Greene
Just as someone in pain is linked by his groans to the present moment (and is entirely outside past and future), so someone bursting out in such ecstatic laughter is without memory and desire, for he is emitting his shout into the world's present moment and wishes to know only that.
- Milan Kundera
It's the self that suffers, and there's a place where the self - ceases. I don't know how to say it. But I believe that the reality, the truth which I recognise in suffering as I don't in comfort and happiness - that the reality of pain is not pain. If you can get through it. If you can endure it all the way.
- Ursula K Le Guin
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectutal, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the boredom of pain. If you can't lick 'em, join 'em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to condemn everything else.
- Ursula K Le Guin
Pain is beyond reason, an obliterating giant stupidity to which all your history of jokes and nuance and ideas and caresses is nothing, simply nothing..
- Glen Duncan
Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible.
- Andrea Dworkin
This boy thinks I am not of his species, that I am some other kind of creature, one that can be crushed under the weight of a phone book.
The pain is not great, but the symbolism is disagreeable.
- Dave Eggers
You can't ever guess at life, at pain. All pain is real, and all pain is personal. It's the most personal thing we have. It eats each of us differently.
- Dave Eggers
Enduring pain is like causing pain.
- Beth Fantaskey
The day has been so full of fret and care, and our hearts have been so full of evil and of bitter thoughts, and the world has seemed so hard and wrong to us. Then Night, like some great loving mother, gently lays her hand upon our fevered head, and turns our little tear-stained faces up to hers, and smiles; and though she does not speak, we know what she would say, and lay our hot flushed cheek against her bosom, and the pain is gone.
- Jerome K Jerome
My pain is constant and sharp...this confession has meant nothing
- Bret Easton Ellis
My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.
- Bret Easton Ellis
I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned.
Adult. You have become adult.
- Harlan Ellison
As for us, we behave like a herd of deer. When they flee from the huntsman's feathers in affright, which way do they turn? What haven of safety do they make for? Why, they rush upon the nets! And thus they perish by confounding what they should fear with that wherein no danger lies.... Not death or pain is to be feared, but the fear of death or pain. Well said the poet therefore:
Death has no terror; only a Death of shame!
- Epictetus
Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.
- Victor Hugo
Pain is temporary, film is forever.
- Michael J Fox
Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message.
- James Patterson
We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if we are to have any happiness at all, it is only in the passing instant.
- Charles Frazier
Our worst pain is confined within our own skin.
- Charles Frazier
Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself.
- James Frey
D'ye ken that the only time I am without pain is in your bed, Sassenach? When I take ye, when I lie in your arms-my wounds are healed, then, my scars forgotten.
- Diana Gabaldon
Pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
- Kahlil Gibran
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
- Kahlil Gibran
The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.
- Eckhart Tolle
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
- Khalil Gibran
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
- Khalil Gibran
I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will lessen in time, pain is too often merely relentless and irreversible.
- Robert Goolrick
You advised him not to get a lawyer, giving as one of your reasons the opinion that lawyers are a pain in the ass. Gentlemen, the pain is here.
-Reggie Love
- John Grisham
In the medium and long term. Spain is solvent and able to pay its high debts. In the short-term, we have the capacity to meet our obligations.
- Luis De Guindos
...you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too terrible to shoulder, you have to shout it out; you have to shout for help... And then finally, the way through grief is grieving.
- Jane Hamilton
Have you ever experienced a pain so sharp in your heart that it's all you can do to take a breath? It's a pain you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy; you wouldn't want to pass it on to anyone else for fear he or she might not be able to bear it. It's the pain of being betrayed by a person with whom you've fallen in love. It's not as serious as death, but it feels a whole lot like it, and as I've come to learn, pain is pain any way you slice it.
- Chelsea Handler
Shared pain is lessened
Shared joy is increased
Thus do we refute entropy
- Spider Robinson
Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.
- Spider Robinson
This pain is part of being human, the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.
Then I don't want to be human.
- J K Rowling
Come, come," the Baron said. "We don't have much time and pain is quick. Please don't bring it to this, my dear Duke." The Baron looked up at Piter who stood at Leto's shoulder. "Piter doesn't have all his tools here, but I'm sure he could improvise."
"Improvisation is sometimes the best, Baron.
- Frank Herbert
Showing young children in these communities, that there are outlets for their feelings, that there is room in a space for their stories to be told, and that they will be applauded - and it's not about ego, it's about connection: that their pain is everybody else's pain.
- Tom Hiddleston
From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain is the fertilizer for wisdom.
- T F Hodge
Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.
- Siri Hustvedt
The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be believed only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called faith.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
The abscess is a distant memory. The pain is gone. This dinner with her hosts and her health-care team, this week of seeing another country and another culture, this time of being in demand, this moment is reality. I am a lucky girl, (Judy) thinks.
- Shireen Jeejeebhoy
He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.
- Robinson Jeffers
You've never felt good. Your suffering protects you. Pain is the ransom you have gladly paid not to be free.
- Denis Johnson
Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.
- Robert Jordan
Pain is the body's way of ridding itself of weakness.
- Dean Karnazes
Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.
- Charles Kingsley
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Knowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation gift for knowing that we ourselves are coming to an end. Before we get it we live in a continuous present, and imagine the future as more of that present. Happiness is endless happiness, innocent of its own sure passing. Pain is endless pain.
- Tobias Wolff
For a sensation to be felt as pain is for it to be pain.
- Saul Kripke
In order to eat, you have to be hungry. In order to learn, you have to be ignorant. Ignorance is a condition of learning. Pain is a condition of health. Passion is a condition of thought. Death is a condition of life.
- Robert Anton Wilson
Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
- Charles Lamb
Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.
- Hugh Laurie
I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer.
- Hugh Leonard
Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.
- Joshua Leonard
Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say "My tooth is aching" than to say "My heart is broken.
- C S Lewis
when pain is to be born, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.
- C S Lewis
The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and sin both have this property, that the deeper they are the less their victim suspects their existence; they are masked evil. Pain is unmasked, unmistakable evil; every man knows that something is wrong when he is being hurt.
- C S Lewis
With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.
- Laura Linney
Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
- Audre Lorde
The hardest thing of all is when pain is hidden behind a mask of calm.
- Sergei Lukyanenko
The queen of the sky told him that in death there is no satisfaction. Only pain will find you. So he asked her when the pain would lessen. The queen told him never. The pain is what shows us how much we loved them. If you truly love someone, then the pain of their loss will always be in your heart. (Nora)
- Kinley Macgregor
All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
- Joseph De Maistre
Humans may progress. They may think that they are moving forward because they have invented clever machines and because they control the land and sea. But man's capacity to inflict and endure pain is constant. Man's desire for power, to beat down his competition - it hasn't changed in the slightest.
- Gemma Malley
Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
- Cormac Mccarthy
When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human, that pain is to be endured and fades, if it fades, only with time, then God became nothing to me but a dyslexic dog, with neither bark nor bite.
- Yann Martel
When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
- Yann Martel
I've never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart. I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye, without looking back even once. The pain is like an axe that chops my heart.
- Yann Martel
Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love.
I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye, without looking back even once. That pain is like an axe that chops at my heart.
- Yann Martel
Pain is not wat you get, it is wat you give.
- Colum Mccann
Pain is the price you pay for resisting life.
- Phillip C Mcgraw
I understand pain. I've lived with pain my entire life. But pain is nothing compared to betrayal. And betrayal is nothing compared to knowing that the javelin in your back was rammed there by the one person in your life you actually trusted.
- Brad Meltzer
There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.
- George Michael
The pain is constant, steady, never-ending. It's the only thing I know. I don't want to be awake anymore.
- Katja Millay
Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.
- Keith Miller
I was taught that pain is bad.
- Keith Miller
But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memory the things that vanish, that are taken away. We fix them in our minds forever by yearning, by pain, by crying out. Pain, the pain that seems unbearable at the time, is memory's first imprinting step, the cornerstone of the temple we erect inside us in memory of the dead. Pain is part of memory, and memory is a God-given gift.
- Sue Miller
Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is... The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman
Pain is strong, aye - but friends' eyes, more strong. I told him that he knows next to nothing about me & I know nothing about him. He jabbed at his eyes & jabbed at mine, as if that single gesture were ample explanation.
- David Mitchell
It's not a damn death wish. I just know how much my pain is worth.
- Devon Monk
And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing.
- Ricardo Montalban
People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.
- Jim Morrison
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
- Jim Morrison
When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
- Toni Morrison
This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.
- Alfred De Musset
pain is the only real emotion. Everything else can be taken away. Love,happiness,joy can always be taken away. Even old sadness can be dissipated if you pee enough ha-ha into it. But pain is pure
- Walter Dean Myers
And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that's inside me.
And i fall back into it.
- Patrick Ness
To put it another way, pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Why must it be pain? Why can't he rouse us more gently, with violins or laughter? Because the dream from which we must be wakened, is the dream that all is well.
- William Nicholson
Our tragedy is their beauty. Our pain is their art. The beatific bereavement that is our life captured on a canvas for all the world to see.
- Solange Nicole
Some say pain is the greatest motivator... I say it's love.
- Solange Nicole
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
- Simone Weil
Now it is as if I remember my grief rather than experience it. I remember the pain I suffered as the memories washed over me where I sat on the deck that day. Now I have only the memories of my own feelings, not the feelings themselves. That day the feelings were still alive, the pain real. Now I look back and I can see every detail but I am not there, inside it. My own pain is now forever calcified. I carry it with me, but it is no longer alive. (10)
- Linda Olsson
What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
- Ovid
Pain is pain. It needs no description.
- Christopher Paolini
'Even pain is impossibly exquisite.'
- Vicki Pettersson
Sure it will hurt. But so what? Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of anything, even pain.
- Rodman Philbrick
Will it hurt?" I ask. "Getting your parts replaced?"
Freak doesn't answer for a while and then he says in his stern, smart voice, "Sure it will hurt. But so what? Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of anything, even pain."
I'm pretty worried about the whole deal, and I go, "But why do you want to be the first? Can't someone else be first? Isn't it dangerous?"
Life is dangerous," Freak says.
- Rodman Philbrick
Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of everything, even pain.
- Rodman Philbrick
I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.
- Emo Philips
Art is not alone in imparting charm and mystery to the most insignificant things; pain is endowed with the same power to bring them into intimate relation with ourselves.
- Marcel Proust
Spain is facing an economic situation of extreme difficulty, I repeat, of extreme difficulty, and anyone who doesn't understand that is fooling themselves.
- Mariano Rajoy
The worst thing a government can do now in Spain is to do nothing.
- Mariano Rajoy
Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high.
- Mariano Rajoy
It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering. I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence.
- Ayn Rand
The moment you tell someone else is the moment you become a whiner and the world's smallest violin starts to play. The truth is, we all have problems; we all go through hardships and pain, and my pain is paradise compared to a lot of people's and I really have no right to whine at all.
- J A Redmerski
Pain is pain, babe. Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less.
- J A Redmerski
How strange to think that great pain may be impermanent. Something in us all seems to want to carve it in granite, as if only this would do full honor to its terrible significance. But even pain is blessed with impermanence...
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- Rachel Naomi Remen
Love is tricky. It is never mundane or daily. You can never get used to it. You have to walk with it, then let it walk with you. You can never balk. It moves you like the tide. It takes you out to sea, then lays you on the beach again. Today's struggling pain is the foundation for a certain stride through the heavens. You can run from it but you can never say no. It includes everyone.
- Amy Tan
Oh, my darling, wish you were here!
And my dark soul is happy again, because it does not know how to be anything else for very long, and
because the pain is a deep dark sea in which I would drown if I did not sail my little craft steadily over the
surface, steadily towards a sun which will never rise.
- Anne Rice
They can say whatever I'ma do whatever no pain is forever
Yup! you know this
Tougher then a lion ain't kno need in trying I live where the sky ends
Yup! you kno this
- Rihanna
I understand that if you have never suffered a broken heart, then you have never really known what it is to truly be alive. And I understand that at that precise moment, when your heart breaks open, that all you want to do is lay down and die! Because you know that is the only way the pain is ever going to stop.
- Patti Roberts
The pain is such that I refuse to acknowledge it. I feel numb. I have somehow escaped from my body and am now a casual observer to this unfolding tragedy.
- James E Rogers
The muscles inside the deepest, darkest part of me clench in the most delicious fashion. The pain is so sweet and sharp I want to close my eyes, but I'm hypnotized by his eyes staring fervently into mine.
- James E Rogers
I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.
- Henry Rollins
This is your karma. You do not understand now, but you will understand later. The source of pain is within your own larger expression of being.
- H Raven Rose
Pain is love.
- Ja Rule
The cure for pain is in the pain.
- Rumi
Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies..
- Rumi
- Aberjhani
Woody Allen once said that 90 percent of life is about showing up. Ninety percent of healing people in psychological pain is shutting up - at least long enough to let them bleed the truth. That sounds easy, but it isn't. (68)
- Keith Ablow
The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
- Jacob Bronowski
Pain is the world. I don't have anywhere to run.
- Kathy Acker
Sometimes pain is for the greater good.
- Veronica Roth
I felt that pain is a woman's friend.'
'That is the danger.'
'I also felt that pain has it's limits.'
'That is the salvation. Don't forget that.
- Paulo Coelho
Pain is never added to pain. It multiplies.
- Sherman Alexie
The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Pain is only what you allow it to be
- Cassandra Clare
Pain is the body's way of telling the brain it's in trouble. Similarly, confusion is the brain's way of telling the body, 'All right, buddy, drop that book.
- Stephen Colbert
There is a fallacy that the powerful emotion of youth mellows with time. Not true. One learns to control and suppress it. But it doesn't lessen. It simply hides and concentrates itself in more discreet places. When one accidentally stumbles into one of these abysses, the pain is spectacular.
- Nicole Krauss
Your Blake is mourning something. I think that pain is manifesting as his glass-skin delusions. You're going to have to approach him as if he's in one of those tents I walk into. My advice is this: Listen, Livia. Listen to him. Saying words out loud can heal.
- Debra Anastasia
How much are you lifting?"
"Seven hundred."
Alright then. I will just stand over here, out of your way, and hope you don't remember my promisse to kick your ass.
He grinned. "Wanna spot me?"
"No thanks. How about I just scream verbal encouragements at you?" I took a deep breath and barked. "No pain, no gain! That pain is just weakness leaving your body! Come on! Push! Push! Make that weight your bitch!
- Ilona Andrews
All pain is the same.
- Oprah Winfrey
From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
- Michelangelo
Pain is life. Life is pain.
- Katherine Applegate
A lesson without pain is meaningless. That's because no one can gain without sacrificing something. But by enduring that pain and overcoming it, he shall obtain a powerful, unmatched heart. A fullmetal heart.
- Hiromu Arakawa
A lesson without pain is meaningless. For you cannot gain something without sacrificing something in return..
- Hiromu Arakawa
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
- Lance Armstrong
Cycling is so hard, the suffering is so intense, that it's absolutely cleansing. The pain is so deep and strong that a curtain descends over your brain....Once; someone asked me what pleasure I took in riding for so long. 'PLEASURE???? I said.' 'I don't understand the question.' I didn't do it for the pleasure; I did it for the pain.
- Lance Armstrong
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
- Lance Armstrong
Pain is not a medallion that you must weigh your bosom with,
it's a force you must fight against and never, never let it win
- Jyoti Arora
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
- Marcus Aurelius
Just because your pain is understandable, doesn't mean your behavior is acceptable.
- Steve Maraboli
...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
- Jane Austen
Pain is never permanent.
- Saint Teresa Of Avila
Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it.
- Javier Bardem
I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan.
- Javier Bardem
Let go of me, Celt, or I'll rip your arm off. And you know what? I don't care if I lose both of mine in the process. That's the difference between us. Pain is my friend and ally. You fear it. (Zarek)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
And neither do you, ciratile. you EVER try this shit again with me and mine, and i will rape and plunder the village ,and burn the motherfucker to the ground..." He looked around at the bodies on the floor. "And as you've seen here today there ain't nothing you bitches can do to stop me. Talk is cheap. Pain is free. And I'm peddling the shit out of it. so you come on and get some.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I know that pain is the one nobility / upon which Hell itself cannot encroach
- Charles Baudelaire
At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary.
- Albert Camus
Breakups hurt like a motherf*#ker, but they are not the end of the world. The pain is temporary, and if handled properly, they can even be life-changing.
- Greg Behrendt
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Haruki Murakami
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you're running and you think, 'Man, this hurts, I can't take it anymore. The 'hurt' part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.
- Haruki Murakami
This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and fear is real fear. The moon in the sky is no paper moon.
- Haruki Murakami
Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. It's like that frozen pain and my very existence are one.
The pain is an anchor, mooring me here.
- Haruki Murakami
To remind me, pain is the best teacher
- Holly Black
My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers that everyone is carrying around with them. Think of your pain like a big bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one.
- Francesca Lia Block
Pain is inevitable; lives come with pain. Suffering is not inevitable. If suffering is what happens when we struggle with our experience because of our inability to accept it, then suffering is an optional extra [p. 19].
- Sylvia Boorstein
Right Understanding means feeling terrible, remembering pain is finite, and taking some solace from that remembering. And, when things are pleasant, even splendidly pleasant, remembering impermanence doesn't diminish the experience--it enhances it [p. 33]
- Sylvia Boorstein
If I can't see around my personal story, I'll have no way to see sit in context: This is one event in a life of events. It is whatever it is, but it is temporal. The pain is terrible, but it won't last. I can manage it. or this joy is incredible, but it won't last. Celebrate it now! [pp. 104-105]
- Sylvia Boorstein
one pain is cured by another. catch some new infection in your eye and the poison of the old one would die.
- William Shakespeare
One fire burns out another's burning,
One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.
- William Shakespeare
You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.
- Simon Van Booy
Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.
- Tara Brach
There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.
- Bill Bradley
Pain is fear, and I'm not afraid.
- Ann Brashares
You want to know what pain is? Try running out of Advil when you've got a Category Five period. I've had cramps that would make grown men beg for a bullet between the eyes."
- Jennifer, "Beauty Queens
- Libba Bray
Pain is the only reward for clinging to impossible dreams. (Harry Braxton)
- Connie Brockway
One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough.
- Charlie Brooker
pain is inevitable,suffering is optional...
we have bigger houses,but smaller families. More conveniences,but less time. We have knowledge,but less judgements; more experts,but more problems ; more medicines but less health.
- Dalai Lama
Pain is a part of growing-up. It is how we learn.
- Dan Brown
Our stories are different; our pain is the same.
- Betty Buckley
Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an idiot. There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help.
- Charles Bukowski
morning night and noon
the traffic moves through
and the murder and treachery
of friends and lovers
and all the people
move through you.
pain is the joy of knowing
the unkindest truth
that arrives without
warning.
life is being alone
death is being alone.
even the fools weep
morning night and noon.
- Charles Bukowski
pain is absurd because it exists, nothing more.
- Charles Bukowski
For standing between Cody and his pain is my obligation, and standing between my uncle and his pain is my rent, but the pain I coax from Bronte is my joy
- Neal Shusterman
From such a gentle thing,from such a fountain of all delight,my every pain is born..
- Michelangelo Buonarroti
Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it. (Harry Dresden)
- Jim Butcher
Pain is to be endured. It ends or it does not.
- Jim Butcher
Pain is a byproduct of life. That's the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That's true for everyone. But if you don't face the pain and the suck, you don't ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for.
- Jim Butcher
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
- Samuel Butler
I don't know why we insist on pain when pain is so often easy to eliminate. It's funny the ways we try to punish ourselves when we feel we've committed some crime.
- Deb Caletti
Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.
- Orson Scott Card
There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and forever, no on ewould save him from it. Peter might be scum, but Peter had been right, always right; the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.
- Orson Scott Card
The power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.
- Orson Scott Card
Do
you know what pain is, Cammie? It's the
body's physical response to imminent harm.
It is the mind's way of telling us to move our
hand off the stove or let go of the broken
glass.
- Ally Carter
Pain is weakness leaving the body
- Tera Lynn Childs
The loss of a loved one is like the loss of a part of oneself; an arm or a leg. At first, the pain is so physical that it is hard to ignore. The trauma is so intense that the mind finds it hard to cope with the loss. With time the pain eases, the body recovers and the brain figures out new ways to go on.
- Federico Chini
When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the noise they make. The other half is the terror at being forced to accept that they exist.
- Noah Cicero
All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.
- Emile M Cioran
Pain is nothing, just a warning signal from the body to the brain. Pain is no more the real thing than an X-ray photograph is the real thing. Biut of course he is wrong.
- J M Coetzee
Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.
- J M Coetzee
I wake up thinking of yesterday. The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday.
- David Levithan
If pain is a pot of boiling water, humor can be the rising steam.
- Cameron Conaway
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
- Cyril Connolly
So the question really is, Why doesn't that pain make you say, I won't do it again? When the pain is so bad that you have to say that, but you don't.
- Lydia Davis
One day at a time. You rise, you eat, you bathe, and you talk to the few people you can tolerate while feeling so wretched. Over time, it hurts a little less. Then a little less. And so on...Until one morning, you will awake and realize the pain is only a memory. It will always be with you, but it will eventually lack the power to cripple you.
- Sylvia Day
Closing down in the midst of pain is a denial of a man's true nature. A superior man is free in feeling and action, even
amidst great pain and hurt. If necessary, a man should live with a hurting heart rather than a closed one. He should
learn to stay in the wound of pain and act with spontaneous skill and love even from that place.
- David Deida
Keep your words. This pain is no life." "You only feel pain because you're alive, boy!" the keeper thundered. "This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff. Fall off and you might die, but run from it and you are already dead!
- Ted Dekker
Every pain is a lesson.
- Frank Delaney
Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it's worth.
- John Green
Pain is easy to write. In pain we're all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness?
- Graham Greene
Just as someone in pain is linked by his groans to the present moment (and is entirely outside past and future), so someone bursting out in such ecstatic laughter is without memory and desire, for he is emitting his shout into the world's present moment and wishes to know only that.
- Milan Kundera
It's the self that suffers, and there's a place where the self - ceases. I don't know how to say it. But I believe that the reality, the truth which I recognise in suffering as I don't in comfort and happiness - that the reality of pain is not pain. If you can get through it. If you can endure it all the way.
- Ursula K Le Guin
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectutal, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the boredom of pain. If you can't lick 'em, join 'em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to condemn everything else.
- Ursula K Le Guin
Pain is beyond reason, an obliterating giant stupidity to which all your history of jokes and nuance and ideas and caresses is nothing, simply nothing..
- Glen Duncan
Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible.
- Andrea Dworkin
This boy thinks I am not of his species, that I am some other kind of creature, one that can be crushed under the weight of a phone book.
The pain is not great, but the symbolism is disagreeable.
- Dave Eggers
You can't ever guess at life, at pain. All pain is real, and all pain is personal. It's the most personal thing we have. It eats each of us differently.
- Dave Eggers
Enduring pain is like causing pain.
- Beth Fantaskey
The day has been so full of fret and care, and our hearts have been so full of evil and of bitter thoughts, and the world has seemed so hard and wrong to us. Then Night, like some great loving mother, gently lays her hand upon our fevered head, and turns our little tear-stained faces up to hers, and smiles; and though she does not speak, we know what she would say, and lay our hot flushed cheek against her bosom, and the pain is gone.
- Jerome K Jerome
My pain is constant and sharp...this confession has meant nothing
- Bret Easton Ellis
My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.
- Bret Easton Ellis
I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned.
Adult. You have become adult.
- Harlan Ellison
As for us, we behave like a herd of deer. When they flee from the huntsman's feathers in affright, which way do they turn? What haven of safety do they make for? Why, they rush upon the nets! And thus they perish by confounding what they should fear with that wherein no danger lies.... Not death or pain is to be feared, but the fear of death or pain. Well said the poet therefore:
Death has no terror; only a Death of shame!
- Epictetus
Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.
- Victor Hugo
Pain is temporary, film is forever.
- Michael J Fox
Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message.
- James Patterson
We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if we are to have any happiness at all, it is only in the passing instant.
- Charles Frazier
Our worst pain is confined within our own skin.
- Charles Frazier
Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself.
- James Frey
D'ye ken that the only time I am without pain is in your bed, Sassenach? When I take ye, when I lie in your arms-my wounds are healed, then, my scars forgotten.
- Diana Gabaldon
Pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
- Kahlil Gibran
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
- Kahlil Gibran
The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.
- Eckhart Tolle
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
- Khalil Gibran
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
- Khalil Gibran
I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will lessen in time, pain is too often merely relentless and irreversible.
- Robert Goolrick
You advised him not to get a lawyer, giving as one of your reasons the opinion that lawyers are a pain in the ass. Gentlemen, the pain is here.
-Reggie Love
- John Grisham
In the medium and long term. Spain is solvent and able to pay its high debts. In the short-term, we have the capacity to meet our obligations.
- Luis De Guindos
...you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too terrible to shoulder, you have to shout it out; you have to shout for help... And then finally, the way through grief is grieving.
- Jane Hamilton
Have you ever experienced a pain so sharp in your heart that it's all you can do to take a breath? It's a pain you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy; you wouldn't want to pass it on to anyone else for fear he or she might not be able to bear it. It's the pain of being betrayed by a person with whom you've fallen in love. It's not as serious as death, but it feels a whole lot like it, and as I've come to learn, pain is pain any way you slice it.
- Chelsea Handler
Shared pain is lessened
Shared joy is increased
Thus do we refute entropy
- Spider Robinson
Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.
- Spider Robinson
This pain is part of being human, the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.
Then I don't want to be human.
- J K Rowling
Come, come," the Baron said. "We don't have much time and pain is quick. Please don't bring it to this, my dear Duke." The Baron looked up at Piter who stood at Leto's shoulder. "Piter doesn't have all his tools here, but I'm sure he could improvise."
"Improvisation is sometimes the best, Baron.
- Frank Herbert
Showing young children in these communities, that there are outlets for their feelings, that there is room in a space for their stories to be told, and that they will be applauded - and it's not about ego, it's about connection: that their pain is everybody else's pain.
- Tom Hiddleston
From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain is the fertilizer for wisdom.
- T F Hodge
Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.
- Siri Hustvedt
The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be believed only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called faith.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
The abscess is a distant memory. The pain is gone. This dinner with her hosts and her health-care team, this week of seeing another country and another culture, this time of being in demand, this moment is reality. I am a lucky girl, (Judy) thinks.
- Shireen Jeejeebhoy
He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.
- Robinson Jeffers
You've never felt good. Your suffering protects you. Pain is the ransom you have gladly paid not to be free.
- Denis Johnson
Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.
- Robert Jordan
Pain is the body's way of ridding itself of weakness.
- Dean Karnazes
Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.
- Charles Kingsley
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Knowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation gift for knowing that we ourselves are coming to an end. Before we get it we live in a continuous present, and imagine the future as more of that present. Happiness is endless happiness, innocent of its own sure passing. Pain is endless pain.
- Tobias Wolff
For a sensation to be felt as pain is for it to be pain.
- Saul Kripke
In order to eat, you have to be hungry. In order to learn, you have to be ignorant. Ignorance is a condition of learning. Pain is a condition of health. Passion is a condition of thought. Death is a condition of life.
- Robert Anton Wilson
Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
- Charles Lamb
Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.
- Hugh Laurie
I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer.
- Hugh Leonard
Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.
- Joshua Leonard
Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say "My tooth is aching" than to say "My heart is broken.
- C S Lewis
when pain is to be born, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.
- C S Lewis
The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and sin both have this property, that the deeper they are the less their victim suspects their existence; they are masked evil. Pain is unmasked, unmistakable evil; every man knows that something is wrong when he is being hurt.
- C S Lewis
With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.
- Laura Linney
Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
- Audre Lorde
The hardest thing of all is when pain is hidden behind a mask of calm.
- Sergei Lukyanenko
The queen of the sky told him that in death there is no satisfaction. Only pain will find you. So he asked her when the pain would lessen. The queen told him never. The pain is what shows us how much we loved them. If you truly love someone, then the pain of their loss will always be in your heart. (Nora)
- Kinley Macgregor
All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
- Joseph De Maistre
Humans may progress. They may think that they are moving forward because they have invented clever machines and because they control the land and sea. But man's capacity to inflict and endure pain is constant. Man's desire for power, to beat down his competition - it hasn't changed in the slightest.
- Gemma Malley
Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
- Cormac Mccarthy
When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human, that pain is to be endured and fades, if it fades, only with time, then God became nothing to me but a dyslexic dog, with neither bark nor bite.
- Yann Martel
When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
- Yann Martel
I've never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart. I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye, without looking back even once. The pain is like an axe that chops my heart.
- Yann Martel
Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love.
I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye, without looking back even once. That pain is like an axe that chops at my heart.
- Yann Martel
Pain is not wat you get, it is wat you give.
- Colum Mccann
Pain is the price you pay for resisting life.
- Phillip C Mcgraw
I understand pain. I've lived with pain my entire life. But pain is nothing compared to betrayal. And betrayal is nothing compared to knowing that the javelin in your back was rammed there by the one person in your life you actually trusted.
- Brad Meltzer
There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.
- George Michael
The pain is constant, steady, never-ending. It's the only thing I know. I don't want to be awake anymore.
- Katja Millay
Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.
- Keith Miller
I was taught that pain is bad.
- Keith Miller
But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memory the things that vanish, that are taken away. We fix them in our minds forever by yearning, by pain, by crying out. Pain, the pain that seems unbearable at the time, is memory's first imprinting step, the cornerstone of the temple we erect inside us in memory of the dead. Pain is part of memory, and memory is a God-given gift.
- Sue Miller
Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is... The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman
Pain is strong, aye - but friends' eyes, more strong. I told him that he knows next to nothing about me & I know nothing about him. He jabbed at his eyes & jabbed at mine, as if that single gesture were ample explanation.
- David Mitchell
It's not a damn death wish. I just know how much my pain is worth.
- Devon Monk
And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing.
- Ricardo Montalban
People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.
- Jim Morrison
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
- Jim Morrison
When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
- Toni Morrison
This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.
- Alfred De Musset
pain is the only real emotion. Everything else can be taken away. Love,happiness,joy can always be taken away. Even old sadness can be dissipated if you pee enough ha-ha into it. But pain is pure
- Walter Dean Myers
And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that's inside me.
And i fall back into it.
- Patrick Ness
To put it another way, pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Why must it be pain? Why can't he rouse us more gently, with violins or laughter? Because the dream from which we must be wakened, is the dream that all is well.
- William Nicholson
Our tragedy is their beauty. Our pain is their art. The beatific bereavement that is our life captured on a canvas for all the world to see.
- Solange Nicole
Some say pain is the greatest motivator... I say it's love.
- Solange Nicole
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
- Simone Weil
Now it is as if I remember my grief rather than experience it. I remember the pain I suffered as the memories washed over me where I sat on the deck that day. Now I have only the memories of my own feelings, not the feelings themselves. That day the feelings were still alive, the pain real. Now I look back and I can see every detail but I am not there, inside it. My own pain is now forever calcified. I carry it with me, but it is no longer alive. (10)
- Linda Olsson
What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
- Ovid
Pain is pain. It needs no description.
- Christopher Paolini
'Even pain is impossibly exquisite.'
- Vicki Pettersson
Sure it will hurt. But so what? Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of anything, even pain.
- Rodman Philbrick
Will it hurt?" I ask. "Getting your parts replaced?"
Freak doesn't answer for a while and then he says in his stern, smart voice, "Sure it will hurt. But so what? Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of anything, even pain."
I'm pretty worried about the whole deal, and I go, "But why do you want to be the first? Can't someone else be first? Isn't it dangerous?"
Life is dangerous," Freak says.
- Rodman Philbrick
Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of everything, even pain.
- Rodman Philbrick
I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.
- Emo Philips
Art is not alone in imparting charm and mystery to the most insignificant things; pain is endowed with the same power to bring them into intimate relation with ourselves.
- Marcel Proust
Spain is facing an economic situation of extreme difficulty, I repeat, of extreme difficulty, and anyone who doesn't understand that is fooling themselves.
- Mariano Rajoy
The worst thing a government can do now in Spain is to do nothing.
- Mariano Rajoy
Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high.
- Mariano Rajoy
It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering. I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence.
- Ayn Rand
The moment you tell someone else is the moment you become a whiner and the world's smallest violin starts to play. The truth is, we all have problems; we all go through hardships and pain, and my pain is paradise compared to a lot of people's and I really have no right to whine at all.
- J A Redmerski
Pain is pain, babe. Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less.
- J A Redmerski
How strange to think that great pain may be impermanent. Something in us all seems to want to carve it in granite, as if only this would do full honor to its terrible significance. But even pain is blessed with impermanence...
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- Rachel Naomi Remen
Love is tricky. It is never mundane or daily. You can never get used to it. You have to walk with it, then let it walk with you. You can never balk. It moves you like the tide. It takes you out to sea, then lays you on the beach again. Today's struggling pain is the foundation for a certain stride through the heavens. You can run from it but you can never say no. It includes everyone.
- Amy Tan
Oh, my darling, wish you were here!
And my dark soul is happy again, because it does not know how to be anything else for very long, and
because the pain is a deep dark sea in which I would drown if I did not sail my little craft steadily over the
surface, steadily towards a sun which will never rise.
- Anne Rice
They can say whatever I'ma do whatever no pain is forever
Yup! you know this
Tougher then a lion ain't kno need in trying I live where the sky ends
Yup! you kno this
- Rihanna
I understand that if you have never suffered a broken heart, then you have never really known what it is to truly be alive. And I understand that at that precise moment, when your heart breaks open, that all you want to do is lay down and die! Because you know that is the only way the pain is ever going to stop.
- Patti Roberts
The pain is such that I refuse to acknowledge it. I feel numb. I have somehow escaped from my body and am now a casual observer to this unfolding tragedy.
- James E Rogers
The muscles inside the deepest, darkest part of me clench in the most delicious fashion. The pain is so sweet and sharp I want to close my eyes, but I'm hypnotized by his eyes staring fervently into mine.
- James E Rogers
I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.
- Henry Rollins
This is your karma. You do not understand now, but you will understand later. The source of pain is within your own larger expression of being.
- H Raven Rose
Pain is love.
- Ja Rule
The cure for pain is in the pain.
- Rumi
Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies..
- Rumi
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