Quotes about pain
pain islands ships
Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness Khalil Gibran
pain struggle sun
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
pain grief healing
Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility: For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen, And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.
pain adversity self
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
pain self sick
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
pain heart understanding
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
pain reading-poetry joy
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
pain oysters passing-by
Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress." And the other oyster replied with haughty complacence, "Praise be to the heavens and to the sea, I have no pain within me. I am well and whole both within and without." At that moment a crab was passing by and heard the two oysters, and he said to the one who was well and whole both within and without, "Yes, you are well and whole; but the pain that your neighbor bears is a pearl of exceeding beauty."
pain fields fruit
When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.
pain self sick
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.
pain thinking heartache
I think my first big heartbreak made me more compassionate about other people's heartaches. It enabled me to feel more for others when they are in moments of pain. Kerry Washington
painful active
The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer. Jonathan Safran Foer
pain real sleep
It was inevitable: Yankel fell in love with his never-wife. He would wake from sleep to miss the weight that never depressed the bed next to him, remember in earnest the weight of gestures she never made, long for the un-weight of her un-arm slung over his too-real chest, making his widower's rememberences that much more convincing and his pain that much more real.
pain real believe
Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria or your own unfeminine inadequacy. Women have learned to submit to pain by hearing authority figures - doctors, priests, psychiatrists - tell us that what we feel is not pain. Naomi Wolf
pain genius infinite
Genius is merely the capacity for taking infinite pains. Napoleon Hill
pain self world
Time seemed to suspend itself, or cease altogether. Place faded away. There was only her self, the centre that endured through all times, all events, from the world, from its pain. Timeless, eternal.. Lois Tilton
pain garden soul
When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sunderered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy. Lois McMaster Bujold
pain joy endure
Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it.
pain thinking people
I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.
pain faces embrace
The good face pain. But the great? They embrace it.
pain winning disability
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?
pain trying lessons
I cry and pray and try to find the positive or the lesson for my pain. Lisa Vidal
pain thinking age
If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their plaintive stories; for pity presupposes sympathy, and a little attention will show them, that those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt. Lyndon B. Johnson
pain character feelings
You can over complicate everything with techniques; when you're in the moment, you have to feel that you are that character, that you're feeling the pain or the happiness or whatever it is that they're feeling in that moment. Usually the authenticity will manifest itself. Luke Evans
pain light evil
Lucifer, oh Lucifer, God of evil, you're the god of pain, the darkness is where you find your light. Ludacris
pain alcohol drug
It's a crooked system, but gin straight take the pain away.
pain revenge agony
Get through the agony and anger, the pain and strife, and take the necessary steps to try to change my life.
painting seducing convince
What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince. Lucian Freud
pain being-hurt faults
When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain. Louise Penny
pain reading hard-work
It is time to return to close reading, to a serious and painstaking examination of an author's methods, of his style. Do not be deterred by headaches. First of all, this would be proof of your lack of stamina. And then, migraines, piercing pain and sudden stabs at the temples are more likely the effects of syphilis than of hard work. Louis Aragon
pain thinking scared
I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it. Loretta Young
pain forever tears
I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - and peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - thou livest forever! Lord Byron
pain fate men
Many are poets, but without the name;For what is Poesy but to createFrom overfeeling Good or Ill; and aimAt an external life beyond our fate,And be the new Prometheus of new men,Bestowing fire from Heaven, and then, too late,Finding the pleasure given repaid with pain