Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katherine Dunn

He must love me, i thought, amazed. A faint whiff of nausea hit me at seeing pain as proof of love, but it seemed true. Unavoidable.

Karel Capek

We´re two, two for everything, for love, life, for a fight and pain, for hours of happiness. Two for wins and losses, for life and for death - TWO!

Karen Armstrong

I remind myself that my pain is not unique. Everybody suffers.

Karen Armstrong

Beethoven's string quartets express pain itself; it is not MY pain.

Karen Armstrong

Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.

Karen Armstrong

Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.

Karen Armstrong

Compassion is aptly summed up in the Golden Rule, which asks us to look into our own hearts, discover what gives us pain, and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else. Compassion can be defined, therefore, as an attitude of principled, consistent altruism.

Karen Armstrong

Let us bring something new to the table. Let us use our pain always to remember the others, bring them into the conversation, and get beyond the stereotypes and prejudices that create injustice all over the world.

Joyce Meyer

The biggest black eye that you can give the devil is to give God your pain and let Him turn it into gain.

Joyce Meyer

The absence of pain means death, so when something no longer bothers you, you've died to that thing.

Katharine Hepburn

Two of an actress's greatest assets are love and pain. A great actress, even a good actress, must have plenty of both in her life.

Karen O

I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.

Karen Kingsbury

I tell of hearts and souls and dances... Butterflies and second chances; Desperate ones and dreamers bound, Seeking life from barren ground, Who suffer on in earthly fate The bitter pain of agony hate, Might but they stop and here forgive Would break the bonds to breathe and live And find that God in goodness brings A chance for change, the hope of wings To rest in Him, and self to die And so become a butterfly.

Karen Russell

Pain collected into deep pockets and I was aware of this painbut somehow I could not seem to feel it. It was like a body-deafness.

Judy Blume

Caitlyn isn't someone to get over. She's someone to come to terms with, the way you have to come to terms with your parents, your siblings. You can't deny they ever happened. You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain.

Judy Blume

you can't deny they ever happened. You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain

Josh McDowell

While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.

Josh Sugarmann

Fear, physical pain, and death are just part of the price Americans pay for the easy access of handguns. It is estimated that the total costs to Americans of gun violence (the vast majority of which involves handguns) is measured in tens of billions of dollars.3 In comparison, the wholesale value of the 1.3 million handguns manufactured in America in 1998 totaled only $370 million.

Joshua Harris

But remember, continuing a wrong relationship only increases the pain when it finally does end.

Joseph Butler

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.

Joseph de Maistre

Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.

Leona Lewis

Fear and pain and suffering is not OK for any being to feel intentionally at the hands of us.

Leona Lewis

Don't care about all the pain in front of me, cause I'm just trying to be happy.

Leonard Cohen

From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which we start.

Leonard Cohen

You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn what makes one kind.

Leonard Cohen

What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. If Hitler had been born in Nazi Germany he wouldn't have been content to enjoy the atmosphere.

Layne Staley

I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.

Laurel Lea

A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.

Laurell K. Hamilton

If you love someone, truly love them, you should never cause them pain. Never fill their eyes with something so close to grief.

Laurell K. Hamilton

She should have remembered that people have given everything they own, everything they are, to be taken care of, and to have their pain gone. It's the lure of cults: the promise of a good family; it's what people think love is, but love isn't absence of pain, it's a hand to hold while you're going through it.

Laurell K. Hamilton

the pain of that first lost was still raw. You could deal with it, endure it, but never escape it.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I’d have much rather gotten dragged into someone else’s fight than face what was waiting for me. Other people’s emotional pain, no matter how painful, is so much less painful than your own.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Your heart is not a wound to be poked at to see if the scab is ready to come off. You can be healed of that very old pain, if you’ll just let it happen. (Marianne)