Quotes about pain
pain hate thinking
Because if I let myself feel the pain and the anger, I think it might kill me. Or I might kill someone else. I know it's wrong to feel that way about God and I know its's wrong to not feel anything. I hate it. I don't hate God. I hate not loving Him. Susan Beth Pfeffer
painful-experiences people feelings
Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like they are out of step with what's expected of them. Susan Cain
pain thinking suffering
Everyone suffers; life is pain; and death is the final punctuation at the end of that sentence, so deal with it. I really think you can manage pain and suffering by living in fullness and being true to yourself and all those seemingly vapid platitudes. Sufjan Stevens
pain turmoil best-work
I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil. Sting
pain knowledge thinking
I don't think happiness is necessarily the reason we're here. I think we're here to learn and evolve, and the pursuit of knowledge is what alleviates the pain of being human.
pain lying thinking
I love Death because he breaks the human pattern and frees us from pleasures too prolonged as well as from the pains of this world. It is pleasant, too, to remember that Death lies in our hands; he must come if we call him. ... I think if there were no death, life would be more than flesh and blood could bear ... Stevie Smith
pain joy tolerance
I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me. Steve Earle
painting transience
I like the transience of Klimt paintings. Steve Coogan
pain taken suffering
The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you... Stephen Sondheim
pain obstacles pleasure
The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion. Stephen Greenblatt
pain loss someone-you-love
How to seperate the humiliation from the loss, that's the catch. You can never be sure if what tortures you is the pain of being without someone you love or the embarrassment of admitting that you have been rejected. Stephen Fry
pain stupid mean
How dare you? How dare you create a world in which there is such misery that's not our fault? It's not right. It's utterly, utterly evil. Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid god who creates a world which is so full of injustice and pain?
pain joy sensual
Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me into gibbering weeping hells of pain that no torturer could ever devise".
pain thinking people
I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the pain they would inflict on others to carry out those purposes. Because the purposes were so good, they would justify this pain we were inflicting on other people. Neil Sheehan
pain positivity born
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet. Neil Simon
pain war addresses
The war on poverty programs help address the pain of poverty. Marco Rubio
pain men evil
Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad. Things like these neither elevate nor degrade; and therefore they are no more good than they are evil. Marcus Aurelius
pain
I, who have never willfully pained another, have no business to pain myself.
pain unhappy crushed
Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.
pain evil sin
It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.
pain life-and-death noble
Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad.
pain past mind
Remember that neither the future nor the past pains thee, but only the present. But this is reduced to a very little, if thou only circumscribest it, and chidest thy mind, if it is unable to hold out against even this.
pain giving opinion
If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. It is in your power to erase this judgment about it. If anything in your own nature gives you pain, you are who hinders you from correcting your opinion.
pain soul mind
It will suffice thee to remember as concerning pain ... that the mind may, by stopping all manner of commerce and sympathy with the body, still retain its own tranquility.
pain stress feet
It's normal to feel pain in your hands and feet, if you're using your feet as feet and your hands as hands. And for a human being to feel stress is normal - if he's living a normal life. And if it's normal, how can it be bad?
pain stress way
Take the shortest route. The one that nature planned - to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculations and pretension.
pain giving fit
It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.
pain imagination mind
In the case of most pains let this remark of Epicurus aid thee, that the pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting, if thou bear in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination...
pain practice-of-medicine should-have
Few things a doctor does are more important than relieving pain. . . pain is soul destroying. No patient should have to endure intense pain unnecessarily. The quality of mercy is essential to the practice of medicine; here, of all places, it should not be strained. Marcia Angell
pain medicine people
You see that the people who are drawn to alternative medicine are often fairly healthy and they go to alternative medicine for what I call the 'symptoms of life.' Fatigue, joint pains, inability to concentrate, perhaps, the kinds of things that anyone over twenty-five gets at some point.
pain shooting red
If you are not in the red playroom of pain and pleasure, … shooting the movie is much like doing any other movie. Marcia Gay Harden
pain thinking self
We live in a culture where people are self-centered and careerist and everybody seems to think they have too much on their plate or they just don't have time for other people's pain. Marc Maron
pain pain-in-life handle
You can't avoid pain in life. It's how you handle pain, that's what defines you.