Quotes about pain
pain divorce sound
The end of a marriage has got to be one of the saddest events one can experience. I've heard that the pain [of divorce] is second only to an actual death in the family, and that sounds about right. Danica McKellar
pain heartache protect
We can't protect ourselves from pain and heartache. Dani Shapiro
pain heartache facts
We can't protect ourselves from pain and heartache. In fact, to love - fully, madly, deeply - is the ensure heartache some day.
pain
Our pain is a part of who we authentically are.
pain work loneliness
Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness -- by making the ultimate escape from life. -- No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it. Dag Hammarskjold
pain struggle sadness
The experience of losing a loved one impels us toward a deeper understanding of life. Everyone fears and is saddened by death. That is natural. But by struggling to overcome the pain and sadness that accompanies death, we become sharply aware of the dignity and preciousness of life and develop the compassion to share the sufferings of others as our own. Daisaku Ikeda
pain grief heart
No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. Cormac McCarthy
pain character melancholy
Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't know if that's because I'm a human being or because I'm an Irishman or both. Colin Farrell
pain loneliness grieving
Look on each day that comes as a challenge, as a test of courage. The pain will come in waves, some days worse than others, for no apparent reason. Accept the pain. Little by little, you will find new strength, new vision, born of the very pain and loneliness which seem, at first, impossible to master. Daphne du Maurier
pain justice glances
Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stow Such travails new and pains as met my glance! Dante Alighieri
pain cities people
Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people
pain perfect pleasure
The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain.
pain dark air
There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.
pain memories grief
At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.
pain cities justice
Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
pain grief past
There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.
pain happy-times misery
... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.)
pain things-in-life interesting
Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are more boring to listen to or read about. Dan Simmons
pain knowing fullness
There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.
pain fall men
Pain and darkness have been our lot since the Fall of Man. But there must be some hope that we can rise to a higher level ... that consciousness can evolve to a plane more benevolent than its counterpoint of a universe hardwired to indifference.
pain remember defeat
Always remember the pain of defeat, and never let it happen again. Dan Gable
pain tomorrow-may-never-come giving
Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit. Give everything you got today for tomorrow may never come.
pain bad-relationship two
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. Cyril Connolly
pain golden-moments pleasure
The refractory pupil of Socrates, Aristippus the Cyrene, who believed happiness to be the sum of particular pleasures and golden moments and not, as Epicurus, a prolonged intermediary state between ecstasy and pain.
pain grief tasks
No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life.
pain love-is people
Love is messy. If you really love someone, you can't avoid the pain. People die, people leave, things change, but sometimes it all works Danielle Steel
pain people challenges
We love comfort, and people make a lot of money selling us comfort, but I would challenge the notion that comfort is usually good for us. Daniel Lieberman
pain years giving
Paper after paper, study after study, have shown that chairs give us back problems because they shorten our hip flexors, give us weak backs, of course it make us sedentary. We take years off our lives probably by sitting in chairs, but we like them because they're comfortable. You go to an African village, you find me a chair with a back. That's a rare thing out there.
pain thinking ideas
... this idea, that humans are essentially weak creatures, is actually deeply woven into a lot of the ways in which humans think about our bodies.
pain children way
As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain. Dan O'Brien
pain moving america
I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration - joy and pain - sit side by side. Cornel West
pain people giving
When you love people, you give them a priority. You have a sense of urgency about their pain.
pain pale loses
Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.