Quotes about pain
painful elusive
Depression...so mysteriously painful and elusive... William Styron
pain suffering doe
The pain is unrelenting; one does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes.
pain writing feelings
I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell.
pain anguish severe
The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it.
pain thinking order
I don't think anyone now really understands the planetisation of mankind, really understands the new world order emerging through all this period of strain and pain and contradiction, so more than ever, we need to have an internal sense of navigation. William Irwin Thompson
pain agony reign
Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign. William C. Bryant
pain years errors
Truth crushed to earth shall rise again,- The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes with pain, And dies among his worshippers.
pain light dazzle
Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade. Walter Scott
pain angel light
O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
pain suits vain
Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.
pain pleasure share
Each must drain His share of pleasure, share of pain.
pain forever shadow
But now, like a fallen sparrow On a golden chain, I'm forever bound in shadow, A prisoner to my pain. Walter Dean Myers
pain love-is missing
When a person that one loves is in the world and alive and well, and pleased to be in the world, then to miss them is only a new flavor, a salt sharpness in experience. It is when the beloved is unhappy or maimed or troubled that one misses with pain. Winifred Holtby
pain giving optimism
May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism. Winston Churchill
pain athlete play
I had pain in both knees my whole career. Not many athletes play pain-free. Mine was just more than normal. Willie McCovey
pain simple creative
The hallucinogens produce visionary states, sort of, but morphine and its derivatives decrease awareness of inner processes, thoughts and feelings. They are pain killers; pure and simple. They are absolutely contraindicated for creative work, and I include in the lot alcohol, morphine, barbiturates, tranquilizers the whole spectrum of sedative drugs. William S. Burroughs
pain order may
You were given the power to love in order to use it, no matter what pain it may cause you.
pain cancer laughing
Wouldn't it be great,as Scott Peck suggests, if all medical students had to undergo the symptoms and feeling of a spectrum of illnesses. From acute infections to terminal cancer - and Kuru, the laughing sickness. Just a month for each exposure, controlled of course, and a good heavy dose of excruciating pain. So they'll know what that feels like.
pain dark filth
The dark Gods of pain are surfacing from the immemorial filth of time...
painting paint timeless
You see, should I stand in front of a landscape and paint it, I'm completely ignoring the factor of time. While I am painting it, it's changing, clouds are changing, all sorts of things. So there's the myth there of someone creating in a timeless vacuum.
pain mean writing
I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
pain punishment purpose
Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment. William J. Brennan
pain virginia blood
For pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of time, of space ; the sense also of extreme fixity in passing objects ; and sounds very remote and then very close ; flesh being gashed and blood sparting, a joint suddenly twisted - beneath all of which appears something very important, yet remote, to be just held in solitude.” — Virginia Woolf, The Waves Virginia Woolf
pain talking abortion
I'm talking to a journalist and I really have nothing to say anymore, this is already uncomfortable. I feel the pain coming already. The brutal pain, when one day I should read your edit of whatever I say, because no matter what I say, no matter how I say it, no matter its tone, its frequency range, its decibel level or the way in which I put the words together, no matter my intentions and no matter the truth. What I'll read one day will be a chastised, manipulated abortion of your misunderstandings, your manipulations, your agenda and your amateur use of the English language. Vincent Gallo
pain want needs
The only thing that's problematic is the constant explaining, the constant need to kind of go, No, I don't want that because of such and such. I feel like I'm a pain in the ass, and I don't like being difficult. Woody Harrelson
pain men fool
God knows that any man who would seek the presidency of the United States is a fool for his pains. The burden is all but intolerable, and the things that I have to do are just as much as the human spirit can carry. Woodrow Wilson
pain war struggle
...men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
pain humor thinking
I think if you have a comic perspective, almost anything that happens you tend to put through a comic filter. It's a way of coping in the short term, but has no long term effect and requires constant, endless renewal. Hence people talk of comics who are "always on." It's like constantly drugging your sensibility so you can get by with less pain. Woody Allen
pain short-life life-is-short
Why not? Life is short, life is dull, life is full of pain - and this is a chance for something special.
pain loss sorrow
Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain That has been, and may be again. William Wordsworth
pain gains miserable
Who, doomed to go in company with Pain And Fear and Bloodshed,-miserable train!- Turns his necessity to glorious gain.
pain giving favors
Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favor. William Shenstone
pain mean men
Unless a man has pity he is not truly a man. If a man has not wept at the worlds pain he is only half a man, and there will always be pain in the world, knowing this does not mean that a man shall dispair. A good man will seek to take pain out of things. A foolish man will not even notice it, except in himself, and the poor unfortunate evil man will drive pain deeper into things and spread it about wherever he goes. William Saroyan