Quotes about pain
pain problem sometimes
Sometimes the problem outshines the pain. Greg Bear
pain bad-relationship confusion
The pain of being in a bad relationship is confusing. When it's over - it's over. No more confusion! Greg Behrendt
pain sadness feel-better
Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain. Gordon Lightfoot
pain world vegetarian
There's no bigger pain anywhere in the world than a vegetarian. Gordon Ramsay
pain mistake two
It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other. Gilbert K. Chesterton
pain smell vivid
Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.
pain people want
People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
pain gains pleasure
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain. John Dryden
pain long half
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
pain ideas giving
It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one. Lord Byron
pain painful payment
Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!
pain men giving
Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil. Lord Acton
pain grief loss
The Detective was different. Not that he wasn't a good man; Willie had heard enough about him to understand that he was the kind who didn't like to turn away from another's pain, the kind who couldn't put a pillow over his ears to drown out the cries of strangers. Those scars he had were badges of courage, and Willie knew that there were others hidden beneath his clothes, and still more deep inside, right beneath the skin and down to the soul. No, it was just that whatever goodness was there coexisted with rage and grief and loss. John Connolly
pain eye people
There are people whose eyes you must avoid, whose attention you must not draw to yourself. They are strange, parasitic creatures, lost souls seeking to stretch across the abyss and make fatal contact with the warm, constant flow of humanity. They live in pain, and exist only to visit that pain on others. A random glance, the momentary lingering of a look, is enough to give them the excuse that they seek. Sometimes, it is better to keep your eyes on the gutter for the fear that, by looking up, you might catch a glimpse of them, black shapes against the sun, and be blinded forever.
pain sadness healing
Our sadness is an energy we discharge in order to heal. …Sadness is painful. We try to avoid it. Actually discharging sadness releases the energy involved in our emotional pain. To hold it in is to freeze the pain within us. The therapeutic slogan is that grieving is the ‘healing feeling.’ John Bradshaw
pain important matter
Pain only matters when it happens to someone important. John Barnes
pain ambition suffering
If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer. M. Scott Peck
pain compassion being-there
Often the most loving thing we can do when a friend is in pain is to share the pain-to be there even when we have nothing to offer except our presence and even when being there is painful to ourselves.
pain procrastination way-to-live
Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live.
pain lying responsibility
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.
pain adversity cutting
It is in the whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. It is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems that we learn.
pain suffering soil
Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage. Lurlene McDaniel
pain joy thanks
It doesn't escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else's. Lupita Nyong'o
pain joy feelings
I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.
pain two destruction
The lure of happiness and the fear of pain . . . are the two forces which have through untold millenniums kept what we usually call life from destruction by the ever encroaching outside forces of destruction. Luther Burbank
pain book practice
If they burn a book, have no worries. The book will feel NO pain so neither should you! True destruction of the Qur'an cannot be done with fire; it is destroyed when we fail to remember & practice its lessons in our daily lives. If this occurs, then it is ANOTHER fire that you should truly be concerned about! Lupe Fiasco
pain people world
Where there is hunger there is no hope. There is only desolation and pain. Hunger nurtures violence and fanaticism. A world where people starve will never be safe Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
pain opium
Only the opium eater truly understands the pain of death. John Cheever
pain real heart
I say that trials and tests locate a person. In other words they determine where you are spiritually. They reveal the true condition of your heart. How you react under pressure is how the real you reacts. John Bevere
pain empathy feelings
Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering. Matthieu Ricard
pain character want
Fame is also a test of character at times... Sometimes I pass the test; sometimes I'm a pain in the ass. Sometimes I'm like, Oh, God! I just want to buy some tampons! Meg Ryan
pain believe littles
And I also know that pain can seem like an endless ribbon. You pull it and you pull it. You keep gathering it toward you, and as it collects, you really can't believe that there's something else at the end of it. Something that isn't just more pain. But there's always something else at the end; something at least a little different. You never know what that thing will be, but it's there. Meg Wolitzer
pain sunset government
You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford.That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this. Meg Whitman