Quotes about pain
pain loss growth
There is no growth without change, no change without fear or loss and no loss without pain. Rick Warren
pain trusting-him suffering
The deepest level of worship is praising God inspite of pain, trusting Him during a trial, surrendering while suffering, and loving Him when He seems distant.
pain helping-others use
Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don’t waste your pain; use it to help others.
pain kindness people
Unkind people need your kindness the most. They advertise their pain.
pain purpose sin
God's purpose is greater than our problems, our pain and even our sin.
pain june safety
June smiled. "So what will it be? Safety, or a future of pain and possibility? Rick Riordan
pain writing self
Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear. Trent Reznor
pain past
you cannot let the pain of the past destroy the happiness of the future. Tracie Peterson
pain philosophy suffering
We are the spirit, the collective conscience. We create the pain, and suffering, and beauty in this world. Tracy Chapman
pain careers special
It is no accident that Hitler, Lenin, Pol Pot and other butchers of note took special pains early in their despotic careers to suppress religion and undermine the traditional family. Theophobes would find such a characterization truly horrifying, but it's true. This explains why theophobia - while popular in faculty lounges, journalism seminars and Hollywood bacchanals - has not and probably never will attract a public following of any appreciable influence or size. Tony Snow
pain sometimes greater-good
Sometimes pain is for the greater good. Veronica Roth
pain grief mean
People talk about the pain of grief, but I don't know what they mean. To me, grief is a devastating numbness, every sensation dulled.
pain practice worry
Don’t worry about me handling the pain," I say. "I’ve had a lot of practice.
pain mean bears
To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.
pain watches absence
I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there's nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.
pain care purpose
Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of. Rebecca Solnit
pain love-is hands
Love is universal migraine, A bright stain on the vision Blotting out reason. Symptoms of true love Are leanness, jealousy, Laggard dawns; Are omens and nightmares - Listening for a knock, Waiting for a sign: For a touch of her fingers In a darkened room, For a searching look. Take courage, lover! Could you endure such pain At any hand but hers? Robert Graves
pain son past
The Old Testament filled this world with tyranny and injustice, and the New gives us a future filled with pain for nearly all of the sons of men. The Old Testament describes the hell of the past, and the New the hell of the future. Robert Green Ingersoll
pain heaven religion
The God of hell should be held in loathing, contempt and scorn. A god who threatens eternal pain should be hated, not loved; cursed, not worshipped. A heaven presided over by such a god must be below the meanest hell.
pain men heaven
God cannot send to eternal pain a man who has done something toward improving the condition of his fellow-man. If he can, I had rather go to hell than to heaven and keep company with such a god.
pain unity done
If you have ever clothed another with woe, as with a garment of pain, you will never be quite as happy as though you had not done that thing.
pain war player
After fifteen years of facing them (pitchers) you don't really get over them. They're devious. They're the only players in the game allowed to cheat. They throw illegal pitches and they sneak foreign substances on the ball. They can inflict pain whenever they wish. And, they're the only ones on the diamond who have high ground. That's symbolic. You know what they tell you in a war - 'take the high ground first.' Richie Ashburn
pain doctors agony
Doctors have been exposed-you always will be exposed-to the attacks of those persons who consider their own undisciplined emotions more important than the world's most bitter agonies-the people who would limit and cripple and hamper research because they fear research may be accompanied by a little pain and suffering. Rudyard Kipling
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".