Quotes about pain
pain people giving
When you love people, you give them a priority. You have a sense of urgency about their pain. Cornel West
pain pale loses
Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new. Cormac McCarthy
pain surprise
Pain for the old was no longer a surprise. Cormac McCarthy
pain soul world
He imagined the pain of the world to be like some formless parasitic being seeking out the warmth of human souls wherein to incubate and he thought he knew what made one liable to its visitations. What he had not known was that it was mindless and so had no way to know the limits of those souls and what he feared was that there might be no limits. Cormac McCarthy
pain nuts creative
Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way. Cormac McCarthy
pain flower heart
He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world’s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower. Cormac McCarthy
pain sadness drug
Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time. Colson Whitehead
pain regret attachment
..Some of our loves and attachments are elemental and beyond our choosing, and for that very reason they come spiced with pain and regret and need and hollowness and a feeling as close to anger as I will ever be able to imagine. Colm Toibin
pain kids atlanta
Whether the people in Haiti, the young kids in Chicago that [are] going through violence, or whether you're in Atlanta or L.A. or Europe - it's not even color barriers for me - I go to where I know there's a lot of turmoil and pain. Common
pain compassion white
Black people in America have come from slavery to other forms of being oppressed and there are some things that come with that - some pain and anger that come with that and we as black people have to deal with it to heal that. White people have to understand it and have some compassion toward it. Common
pain giving
Pain is not wat you get, it is wat you give. Colum McCann
pain giving
Pain's nothing. Pain's what you give, not what you get. Colum McCann
pain forever tea
She was forever tilted sideways by the notion that pain was inevitable, chance was cruel, and all human ingenuity should go towards the making of a good cup of tea. Colum McCann
pain people endurance
She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse. Colum McCann
pain careers done
It's the business I'm in, I can't say that signing things is the favourite part of my career but you know that it has to be done and that there is no pain involved. Cliff Richard
pain sugar nagging
Sugar can cause fatigue and it can also build up on your joints. It can lead to those injuries where you've got nagging pain on those joints. Dwight Howard
painter patterns
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. G. H. Hardy
painted power progress restored schools true
While it's true that power is being restored and schools are being painted and progress is being made
painting picture putting
When you are putting out a competitive lineup, it's like painting a picture for the judges.
painter realized
When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a portrait painter. As I got to be older, I realized that as a portrait painter I wouldn't be able to support a goldfish. Fred Gwynne
paint seen women
I said, I don't want to paint things like Picasso's women and Matisse's odalisques lying on couches with pillows. I don't want to paint people. I want to paint something I have never seen before. I don't want to make what I'm looking at. I want the fragments. Ellsworth Kelly
paintings searching
My ideas come, wh-pheww. And I draw. Just recently, when I'm searching for ideas for paintings and sculptures, I wait for ideas, and it's always visual. Ellsworth Kelly
paintings
My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. Agnes Martin
painted patriotic
I just bought a Jeep painted like an American flag. No one better question how patriotic I am. Blake Anderson
pain forever doubt
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
pain book writing
The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I'll overreach myself once too often and try to write a story that I'm just plain not talented or skilful enough to write. That's the dilemma every storyteller faces. It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try. Orson Scott Card
pain who-i-am long
I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it Orson Scott Card
pain rocks islands
And a rock feels no pain; And an island never cries. Paul Simon
pain aches-and-pains certain
We're living in a certain time, and we're aware of it. And that's part of what we're aware of, along with our own personal aches and pains. Paul Simon
pain fear grief
The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally. Orson Scott Card
pain army hands
At first he thought he felt bad because he was afraid of leading an army, but it wasn't true. He knew he'd make a good commander. He felt himself wanting to cry. He hadn't cried since the first few days of homesickness after he got here. He tried to put a name on the feeling that put a lump in his throat and made him sob silently, however much he tried to hold it down. He bit down on his hand to stop the feeling, to replace it with pain. It didn't help. Orson Scott Card
pain heart compassion
When our hearts open, when we know that we are in fact the world, when we experience the pain of others in our own blood and muscle, we are feeling compassion. Ram Dass
pain heart caring
The pain of the world will sear and break our hearts because we can no longer keep them closed. We've seen too much now. To some degree or other, we have surrendered into service and are willing to pay the price of compassion. But with it comes the joy of a single, caring act. With it comes the honor of participating in a generous process in which one rises each day and does what one can. With it comes the simple, singular grace of being an instrument of Love, in whatever form, to whatever end. Ram Dass