Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janet Fitch

One can bear anything. The pain we cannot bear will kill us outright.

Janet Fitch

In a train...smash. In his arm her last...breath.' He had loved her. But he hated himself more. Such suffering, so much pain. And he thought it made him hateful. As if suffering was shameful, disgusting, as if pain were a crime. Who can judge another man's suffering?

Janet Fitch

It wasn't awful to be dead. The stillness would almost be a relief. She wouldn't want pain, she wouldn't want to be wounded or mutilated. She could never shoot herself or jump off a building. But being dead wasn't unthinkable.

Marian Keyes

The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.

Nicholas Sparks

A joy as intense as pain

Nicholas Sparks

Love should bring joy, it should grant a person peace, but here and not, it was bringing only pain.

Nicholas Sparks

People in pain don’t always see things as clearly as they should

Ne-Yo

There is no pain like the first time you get your heart broken.

Mitch Daniels

When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nothing pains some people more than having to think

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.

Mark Hoppus

It really expresses a man in pain.

Mark Batterson

Sure, you can choose the safety and predictability of the cage, forfeiting the adventure God has destined for you. But you won't be the only one missing out or losing out. When you lack the courage to chase the Wild Goose, the opportunity costs are staggering. Who might not hear about the love of God if you don't seize the opportunity to tell them? Who might be stuck in poverty, stuck in ignorance, stuck in pain if you're not there to help free them? Where might the advance of God's kingdom in the world stall out because you weren't there on the front lines?

Maria Edgeworth

Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain.... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods.

Maria Edgeworth

Nature knows best, and she says, roar!

Marian Keyes

Why do we have such a finite capacity for pleasure but an infinite one for pain?

Miguel de Unamuno

He who loves his neighbor burns his heart, and the heart, like green wood, groans when it burns, and distills itself in tears. There is no point in taking opium; it is better to put salt and vinegar in the soul's wound, for if you fall asleep and no longer feel the pain, then you no longer exist. And the point is to exist.

Nathan Parsons

I'm pretty cerebral, so I can occasionally rationalize emotional pain away, but when I can't, that's when I start to feel the fire inside take over and somehow manage to power through.

Nathan Myhrvold

Risk is the sort of word that is easy to discuss upfront but tough to handle when it comes time to pay the piper. There will always be some who wimp out and second-guess when the pain hits, but that is a childish reaction.

Naomi Judd

It's so important for those living with chronic pain to establish good communication with both their healthcare professionals and caregivers. Clear communication about pain is vital to receiving proper diagnosis and effective treatment.

Naomi Judd

I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.

Naomi Judd

You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.

Naomi Judd

For many people, managing pain involves using prescription medicine in combination with complementary techniques like physical therapy, acupuncture, yoga and massage. I appreciate this because I truly believe medical care should address the person as a whole - their mind, body, and spirit.

Naomi Watts

Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.

Milton Avery

Keep painting - day in - day out. Be absorbed by it.

Milton Friedman

Cutting government spending and government intrusion in the economy will almost surely involve immediate gain for the many, short-term pain for the few, and long-term gain for all.

Mike Shinoda

This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name

Natalie Clifford Barney

Perhaps a reign of powerful women is necessary to make, or unmake when need be, powerful men. Women would not waste so readily and uselessly the lives they had such care and pain in bearing. Why should they submit to the massacre of the innocent, one generation after another ... and allow them to be brought up as live-stock for the inevitable killing?

Ken Wilber

You can't have good without evil, pleasure without pain, and so on.

Kathy Mattea

That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.

Julia Stiles

The only thing that gets me through any type of pain, emotional or physical, is to make it worthwhile by putting it into my work.