Quotes about pain
pain light sea
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! To behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand times over. The highest peaks burned like islands in a sea of liquid shade. Then the lower peaks and spires caught the glow, and long lances of light, streaming through many a notch and pass, fell thick on the frozen meadows. John Muir
pain powerful support
A powerful portfolio of physiological and behavioural evidence now exists to support the case that fish feel pain and that this feeling matters. In the face of such evidence, any argument to the contrary based on the claim that fish 'do not have the right sort of brain' can no longer be called scientific. It is just obstinate. John Webster
pain hands affliction
Even in the greatest afflictions, we ought to testify to God, that, in receiving them from his hand, we feel pleasure in the midst of the pain, from being afflicted by Him who loves us, and whom we love. John Wesley
pain smart eye
Consider that all these torments of body and soul are without intermission. Be their suffering ever so extreme, be their pain ever so intense, there is no possibility of their fainting away, no, not for one moment ... They are all eye, all ear, all sense. Every instant of their duration it may be said of their whole frame that they are 'Trembling alive all o'er, and smart and agonize at every pore.' And of this duration there is no end ... Neither the pain of the body nor of soul is any nearer an end than it was millions of ages ago.
pain people break
And I seek people who break rules with happiness — and not bringing pain to themselves. John Waters
pain home greek
This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family. John Thorn
pain effort dull
However good you may be you have faults; however dull you may be you can find out what some of them are, and however slight they may be you had better make some - not too painful, but patient efforts to get rid of them. John Ruskin
pain two faces
I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.
pain voice listening
I have sometimes called this 'double listening'. Listening to the voice of God in Scripture, and listening to the voices of the modern world, with all their cries of anger, pain and despair. John Stott
pain real world
In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it?
pain emotion remember
for how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them. John Steinbeck
pain kindness lying
Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.
pain two people
The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come out on the other side.
pain relaxation entertainment
And finally comes culture, which is entertainment, relaxation, transport out of the pain of living.
pain secret boxes
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain ...
pain thinking half
I have starved and it isn't nearly as bad as is generally supposed. Four days and a half was my longest stretch. Maybe there are pains that come later. Personally I think terror is the painful part of starvation.
pain book taken
I have taken as much as six years to prepare a book for writing. There is such a delirium of effort in the production of a book; it's like childbirth. And, like childbirth, one forgets the pains immediately so that when you come to write another one you dare to take it up again. Some precious anesthesia sees you through.
pain lying sleep
No one knows how greatness comes to a man. It may lie in his blackness, sleeping, or it may lance into him like those driven fiery particles from outer space. These things, however, are known about greatness: need gives it life and puts it in action; it never comes without pain; it leaves a man changed, chastened, and exalted at the same time--he can never return to simplicity.
pain fall rain
One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.
pain preparation losing
The pain of preparation is nothing like the pain of losing. John Smith
pain yield littles
Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields. John Phillips
pain order darkness
Not grace to bar what is not bliss, Nor flight from all distress, but this: The grace that orders our trouble and pain, And then, in the darkness, is there to sustain. John Piper
pain order earth
My Paradise: With Christ. Not sinning. No pain. New earth. Precious in that order.
painting related values
I've tried to decentralize and interpenetrate so that all parts of a painting are of related value... Mark Tobey
pain poetry pleasure
Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. Mark Strand
pain ransom lasts
No family of an American hostage has ever been prosecuted for paying a ransom for the return of their loved ones. The last thing we should ever do is to add to a family's pain. Mark Steyn
pain people brave
I always try to push through fear. I won't be crippled by it. People say, "Oh you take such risks", or "You're brave." And I'm like, 'Well, if you knew - inside I'm really frightened!' But the way people navigate fear and pain is fascinating... The more you feel, the stronger the pain. And the more you engage in life, the more you have to lose. Nicole Kidman
pain philosophy captains
I am the captain of my pain. Nick Cave
pain guarantees-in-life surplus
There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.
pain love-you passion
I have loved you in every manner that my imagination could contrive. I have wanted you so deeply that my body sang with pain and pleasure. You have been my obsession, my passion, my philosophers' stone of fantasy. You are my desire, my longing, my spirit. I love you unconditionally. - Sabine Strohem Nick Bantock
pain heart loss
in the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction.
pain constant bedfellows
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows
pain fear practice
Maybe as times get worse we get better. Our pain makes us feel other people's too; our fear lets us practice valor; we are tense, and tender as well. And among the things we can no longer afford are things we never really wanted anyway... Nancy Gibbs