Famous Quotes & Sayings

Betty Smith

Sometimes I think it's better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that terrible pain, than to just be... safe. At least she knows she's living.

Betty Smith

She had had the pain; it had been like being boiled alive in scalding oil and not being able to die to get free of it

Betty Smith

If you love someone, you'd rather suffer the pain alone to spare them.

Benjamin Tucker

Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain.

Bob Seger

I work my back 'til it's racked with pain, the boss can't even recall my name.

Bo Sanchez

Your deepest pain will be your most Glorious Blessing.

The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.

Charlotte Ross

You know, we all oppose animal cruelty. But sometimes we forget that animals on farms suffer and feel pain like all other animals. They, too, deserve to be protected from harm and cruelty.

We're doing everything to make the site simpler, ... People don't have a lot of tolerance for pain.

Dan Simmons

Merely to live without a pain Is little gladness, little gain, Ah, welcome joy tho' mixt with grief-- The thorn-set flower that crowns the leaf.

We know he's pretty hurt. I've seen him in pain at times, but I've never seen him in that much pain.

Bill O'Reilly

America is a place where you can succeed no matter who you are. I am proof of that. But you must work very hard and be willing to endure pain. You must set a goal and win in the marketplace no matter what the air temperature. You must pay the price for success.

Bill Murray

Every moment that you share someone else's pain, feel what they feel, makes you more human.

Benjamin Watson

I'M OFFENDED, because of the insulting comments I've seen that are not only insensitive but dismissive to the painful experiences of others.

Bertrand Russell

Speaking psycho-analytically, it may be laid down that any "great ideal" which people mention with awe is really an excuse for inflicting pain on their enemies. Good wine needs no bush, and good morals need no bated breath.

Bertrand Russell

One of the most painful circumstances of recent advances in science is that each one makes us know less than we thought we did

Bertrand Russell

One is always a little afraid of love, but above all, one is afraid of pain or causing pain.

How long the night seems to one kept awake by pain.

Celeste Holm

The trouble with putting armor on is that, while it protects you from pain, it also protects you from pleasure.

Celia Cruz

Forgiving is not forgetting. Forgiving is remembering without pain.

Carol Leifer

I don't exercise. My philosophy is: No pain, no pain.

Carlos Castaneda

"Only if one loves this earth with unbending passion can one relieve one's sadness," don Juan said. "Warriors are always joyful because their love is unalterable and their beloved, the earth, embraces them and bestows upon them inconceivable gifts. The sadness belongs only to those who hate the very thing that gives shelter to their beings." Don Juan again caressed the ground with tenderness. "This lovely being, which is alive to its last recesses and understands every feeling, soothed me, it cured me of my pains, and finally when I had fully understood my love for it, it taught me freedom."

Carlos Castaneda

... a warrior could not avoid pain and grief but only the indulging in them

C. S. Lewis

Grief is like a bomber circling round and dropping its bombs each time the circle brings it overhead; physical pain is like the steady barrage on a trench in World War One, hours if it with no let-up for a moment. Thought is never static pain often is... is it not yet enough?

C. S. Lewis

Pain is G-d's megaphone to wake up the world.

When you're young, you recover fast. I can take a lot of pain.

Agnes Repplier

Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.

Agnes Repplier

Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?

Stephenie Meyer

Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale.

Catherynne M. Valente

This is what it means to be a woman in this world. Every step is a bargain with pain. Make your black deals in the black wood and decide what you’ll trade for power. For the opposite of weakness, which is not strength but hardness. I am a trap, but so is everything. Pick your price. I am a huckster with a hand in your pocket. I am freedom and I will eat your heart.

Casey Affleck

Chickens, cows, and pigs in factory farms spend their whole lives in filthy, cramped conditions, only to die a prolonged and painful death.

Carl Jung

Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.

Carl Jung

The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.