Quotes about pain
pain gay desire
What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship. Andrew Sullivan
pain believe struggle
I believe in the pursuit of happiness. Not its attainment, nor its final definition, but its pursuit. I believe in the journey, not the arrival; in conversation, not monologues; in multiple questions rather than any single answer. I believe in the struggle to remake ourselves and challenge each other in the spirit of eternal forgiveness, in the awareness that none of us knows for sure what happiness truly is, but each of us knows the imperative to keep searching. I believe in the possibility of surprising joy, of serenity through pain, of homecoming through exile.
pain iron knowing
Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that becomes chronic, it is miserable not so much because it is intolerable in the moment as because it is intolerable to have known it in the moments gone and to look forward only to knowing it in the moments to come. Andrew Solomon
pain gay thinking
When I remember how unhappy I was in adolescence - about the fact that, though I wasn't really using the term to or for myself, I knew that I was gay - I think, "Oh, if someone then could have shown me just an hour in the life that I have now, I would have made it through all of that misery and despair just fine." The pain lay in thinking that I had a desolate future.
painful-experiences identity painful
We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.
pain believe bears
We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.
pain mean forever
Love changes everything. Days are longer, words mean more. Love changes everything. Pain is deeper than before. Love can turn your world around, and that world will last forever. Andrew Lloyd Webber
pain mind done
PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another. Ambrose Bierce
painting enjoy ifs
I enjoy painting. I don't know if I'm good at it, but I paint. I paint very quickly. Anthony Hopkins
pain suffering facts
I was starting to come to grips with the fact that I had created a lot of pain and suffering around me, not just within me. Anthony Kiedis
pain loneliness discontent
I was trundling around with my inadequacies, and inner pain and loneliness. I yearned, desperately, to be something. I yearned to get out from where I was ... some deep discontent within myself, actually some deep dislike of myself.
pain way knows
I like to be in pain when I'm getting massaged. That way I know I'm getting my money's worth. Alison Brie
pain emotional emotional-pain
When I really need it, talking is the best way to deal with emotional pain. Alicia Keys
pain land feelings
A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent. Alice Stone Blackwell
pain stories bones
Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. Alice Sebold
pain real flower
Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.
pain war heart
I find it difficult to feel responsible for the suffering of others. That's why I find war so hard to bear. It's the same with animals: I feel the less harm I do, the lighter my heart. I love a light heart. And when I know I'm causing suffering, I feel the heaviness of it. It's a physical pain. So it's self-interest that I don't want to cause harm. Alice Walker
pain people unity
No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.
pain mean fighting
To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to God; or to Gods. We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget: that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love and die. The grace with which we embrace life, in spite of the pain, the sorrow, is always a measure of what has gone before.
pain fall soul
Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul. Alice James
pain heart effort
Now, in our opinion no author should be blamed for obscurity, nor should any pains be grudged in the effort to understand him, provided that he has done his best to be intelligible. Difficult thoughts are quite distinct from difficult words. Difficulty of thought is the very heart of poetry. Alice Meynell
pain men want
He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find. Alice Hoffman
pain joy pay
I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay
pain fear thinking
How could I tell the doctor what was wrong with me? I didn't understand it myself. I couldn't articulate the pain; it was the pain of nothingness. My fear was of the weather, the atmosphere, the very air. What good did safety tips do me now? 'Avoid water, metal objects, rooftops; stay off the telephone in a storm, don't think glass can protect you; even if a storm was 8 miles away, you're still not safe from a strike. Avoid life perhaps that was the answer. The number one safety tip, stay away from it all.
pain black
The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it. Alice Childress
pain ill-health advice
... hunger and cold, ill-health and pain are nothing. They pass. The thing that remains is ignorant criticism, well-meaning but futile advice, the contempt of a subordinate, the feelings of the underdog.
pain lying hate
He lies right at you, you know you hate this game. He slaps you once in a while and you live and love in pain. Alice Cooper
pain transition firsts
... once you get beyond the crust of the first pang it is all the same and you can easily bear it. It is just the transition from painlessness to pain that is so terrible. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
pain suffering disguise
Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt.
pain doubt growth
The signs that presage growth, so similar, it seems to me, to those in early adolescence: discontent, restlessness, doubt, despair, longing, are interpreted falsely as signs of decay. In youth one does not as often misinterpret the signs; one accepts them, quite rightly, as growing pains. One takes them seriously, listens to them, follows where they lead. ... But in the middle age, because of the false assumption that it is a period of decline, one interprets these life-signs, paradoxically, as signs of approaching death.
pain grief home
All I know is that after 10 years of being sober, with huge support to express my pain and anger and shadow, the grief and tears didn’t wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet. They brought me home, to me, to the truth of me. Anne Lamott
pain being-thankful wicked
Expect no reward when you serve the wicked, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pain Aesop
pain wall suffering
Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers. Aeschylus