Quotes about pain
pain shows
I didn't trot my pain out to show around. I kept it better hidden than anyone. I did. Sarah Dessen
pain hair mourning
So what do you wear to dump somebody?" she asked me, twirling a lock of hair around one finger. "Black, for mourning? Or something cheerful and colorful, to distract them from their pain? Or maybe you wear some sort of camouflage, something that will help you disappear quickly in case they don't take it well. Sarah Dessen
pain adversity people
When you have adversity and you have pain, you never feel more alone than you do at that moment. And you can be surrounded by hundreds of thousands of people. Sandra Bullock
pain drama thinking
I think people who do comedy tend to do it well, and to do it painfully and truthfully. So making the leap to drama is easier for them because everything they've done is from pain anyway. Sandra Bullock
pain vision
You were given that pain and that vision because you have something to do with it. Sandra Cisneros
pain memories sadness
But nobody ever forgot anything, not really, though sometimes they pretended, when it suited them. Memories were permanent. Sorrowful ones remained sad even with the passing of time, yet happy ones could never be recreated - not with the same joy. Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain. Rohinton Mistry
pain sadness sorrow
Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain. Rohinton Mistry
pain believe thinking
I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear. I hope to be spared as much pain as possible on the approach path. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. Roger Ebert
pain memories ease
One keeps searching for ease, she did not say, and not finding it, till the memories of no-pain seem only like daydreams. Robin McKinley
pain long people
..various people had long had the feeling that gain through pain was nature's way Robert Wright
painting idiocy
Basically painting is total idiocy. Robert Rauschenberg
pain attitude struggle
There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain. Robert Rauschenberg
painting familiar
Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it. Robert Rauschenberg
pain recovery past
Bourne concentrated on rest and mobility. From somewhere in his forgotten past he understood that recovery depended upon both and he applied rigid discipline to both. Robert Ludlum
pain punishment rewards
Pain is not a punishment. And pleasure is not a reward. You could argue that failure is not punishment and Success is not reward. They're just failure and success. You can choose how you respond. Sarah Lewis
pain emotional people
I am an emotional plagiarist, stealing other people's pain, subsuming it into my own until I can't remember whose it is any more. Sarah Kane
pain stupid hands
Ralston stiffened at the reference to the stupid wager that caused so much pain and unhappiness. He ignored Oxford's proffered hand, and instead met the baron's concerned gaze, and said, "Keep the money. I have her. She's all I want. Sarah MacLean
pain loving-life people
It doesn't promise to solve or erase suffering but to transform it, pledging that by loving one another, even through pain, we will find more life. And it insists that by opening ourselves to strangers, the despised or frightening or unintelligible other, we will see more and more of the holy, since, without exception, all people are one body: God's. Sarah Miles
pain perspective joy
The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There's no way to get context or perspective, ..... Pain and joy without limits. No one can live like that forever, so experience finally comes to our rescue. We come to know what we can endure, and also that nothing endures. Sara Paretsky
pain lying grief
Afterward, I curl around her. We lie in silence until darkness falls, and then, haltingly, she begins to talk...She speaks without need or even room for response, so I simply hold her and stroke her hair. She talks of the pain, grief, and horror of the past four years; of learning to cope with being the wife of a man so violent and unpredictable his touch made her skin crawl and of thinking, until quite recently, that she'd finally managed to do that. And then, finally, of how my appearance had forced her to realize she hadn't learned to cope at all. Sara Gruen
pain rain dark
My soul is a dark ploughed field In the cold rain; My soul is a broken field Ploughed by pain. Sara Teasdale
pain broken soul
My soul is a broken field, plowed by pain. Sara Teasdale
painting
Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
pain real adversity
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
pain sweat each-day
I urge you a nearer communion with Christ, and a growing communion. There are curtains to be opened in Christ that we have never seen before... Therefore dig deep, and sweat, and labor. Take pains for Him, and set aside as much time as you can in each day for Him. Samuel Rutherford
pain pleasure ifs
If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it? Samuel Johnson
pain useless suspicion
Suspicion is very often a useless pain. Samuel Johnson
pain grieving evil
To grieve for evils is often wrong; but it is much more wrong to grieve without them. All sorrow that lasts longer than its cause is morbid, and should be shaken off as an attack of melancholy, as the forerunner of a greater evil than poverty or pain. Samuel Johnson
pain sorrow half
Social sorrow loses half its pain. Samuel Johnson
pain health men
Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour? Samuel Johnson
pain resentment injury
Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it. Samuel Johnson
pain fall reflection
Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religions hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection must plunge him deeper and deeper. Samuel Johnson
pain believe animal
Gaiety is to good-humor as animal perfumes to vegetable fragrance. The one overpowers weak spirits, the other recreates and revives them. Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain; good-humor boasts no faculties which every one does not believe in his own power, and pleases principally by not offending. Samuel Johnson