Quotes about pain
pain struggle fighting
It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body... On the battlefield, in the torture chamber, on a sinking ship, the issues that you are fighting for are always forgotten, because the body swells up until it fills the universe, and even when you are not paralysed by fright or screaming with pain, life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth. George Orwell
pain order may
Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself. George Meredith
pain years essence
But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this assiduously constructed, and yet somewhat dubious hopelessness, in all this poision of unfulfilled desires turned inward, this fever of vacillations, of resolutions adopted for eternity, and of repentances a moment later that you find the very essence of that strange, sharp pleasure. Fyodor Dostoevsky
pain fear-of-death
God is the pain of the fear of death
pain self suffering
In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species. Friedrich Nietzsche
pain greatness suffering
But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that belongs to greatness.
pain men weather
Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can dispense with bad weather and storms. Whether misfortune and opposition, or every kind of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, distrust, severity, greed, and violence do not belong to the favourable conditions without which a great growth even of virtue is hardly possible?
pain failure men
There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated
pain suffering doe
Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?
pain pleasure said
Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.
pain long promise
Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of eternal blessedness, but of a very limited kind in comparison with the promises of religion.
pain enormous bother
Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you? Jeff Lindsay
pain heart reality
People do go back, but they don't survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time. Such things are too much. You can salt your heart, or kill your heart, or you can choose between the two realities. There is much pain here. Some people think you can have your cake and eat it. The cake goes mouldy and they choke on what's left. Going back after a long time will make you mad, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you changed, will treat you as they always did, accuse you of being indifferent, when you are only different. Jeanette Winterson
pain winning voice
It's great to win a few prizes early on. It helps a writer to get noticed and to get some sales. It can also be a pain in the arse because it gets in the way of the quiet, contemplative time every writer needs, but which is particularly important when you are a new writer finding your own voice, and pursuing the things that interest you.
pain moving stories
There's something about the authenticity rather than the autobiography that makes my story and my pain move across and become your story and your pain.
pain mouths creatures
Pain is very often a maimed creature without a mouth.
pain boys joy
I was a Catholic boy, redeemed through pain, not through joy, Jim Carroll
pain character thinking
Most of the time I live with my pain. I have pain but I won't show it around. I think that's the nobility of the character. There's something noble in not spewing on people all the time about your problems. I'm the light guy, so I identified. Jim Carrey
pain grateful writing
The exit from agony is always there. The tunnel out of the agony sector is always in front of you and yet you don't take it. You don't take it by choice. You want to indulge a lot and be in pain. The easiest way out is to write a list of what you're grateful for. If everybody literally did that before they went to bed at night, there'd be no unhappy people.
pain laughing focus
My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.
pain emotional people
I grew up bar-singing and saw all kinds of ways people tried to outrun their emotional pain. It doesn't work. You end up with the original pain, as well as new pain added on top of it from the tactics you used trying to avoid it in the first place. It's best to take a deep breath, bolster yourself, and walk through it. Jewel
pain self allies
You have to be an ally in a difficult time and not turn on yourself with self-shaming thoughts, which makes facing pain intolerable.
pain mean heart
To shut down the ability to feel pain means you shut down all emotions, joy included. It makes our hearts feel small, it robs us of our joy, and really keeps us no safer.
pain regret real
If you love somebody; You better let it out; Don't hold it back; While you're trying to figure it out; Cause the only real pain a heart can ever know; Is the sorrow of regret; When you don't let your feelings show. So, did you say it, Did you mean it?
pain needs passionate
Choose something you are passionate about - or a pain point that has affected you and that you feel really needs to be changed. Jeremy Stoppelman
pain moving recovery
Pause and remember - You alone are responsible for taking an interest in your own growth. Understanding your deepest fears and pain is what will move you forward. If you can do this, you will be rewarded with not only a deeper connection with yourself, but also with others.
pain suffering awakening
Pause and remember - Making the wrong assumptions causes pain and suffering for everyone.
pain two littles
There are only two kinds of pain: too much love or too little. Jennifer Stone
pain grief baptism
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to a baptism - the passing over the threshold of pain and grief and anguish to claim a new state of being. George Eliot
pain anger men
A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.
pain hatred cry
There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder.
pain sadness feelings
It is not ignoble to feel that the fuller life which a sad experience has brought us is worth our personal share of pain. The growth of higher feeling within us is like the growth of faculty, bringing with it a sense of added strength. We can no more wish to return to a narrower sympathy than painters or musicians can wish to return to their cruder manner, or philosophers to their less complete formulas.
pain people literature
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.