Quotes about pain
pain childhood remembrance
Childhood was the germ of all mistrust. You were cruelly joked upon and then you cruelly joked. You lost the remembrance of pain through inflicting it. Graham Greene
pain drinking tired
I’m not at peace anymore. I just want him like I used to in the old days. I want to be eating sandwiches with him. I want to be drinking with him in a bar. I’m tired and I don’t want anymore pain. I want Maurice. I want ordinary corrupt human love. Dear God, you know I want to want Your pain, but I don’t want it now. Take it away for a while and give it me another time.
pain giving psychology
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
pain writing easy
Pain is easy to write. In pain we're all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness?
pain air joy
Do not be afraid that joy will make the pain worse; it is needed like the air we breathe. Goran Persson
pain feelings shadow
[On being deaf:] How much less pain there is in calmly estimating the enjoyments from which we must separate ourselves, of bravely saying, for once and for ever, 'Let them go,' than in feeling them waste and dwindle, till their very shadows escape from our grasp! Harriet Martineau
pain sorrow may
Can anybody tell what sorrows are locked up with our best affections, or what pain may be associated with every pleasure? Harriet Beecher Stowe
pain men soul
After all, let a man take what pains he may to hush it down, a human soul is an awful, ghostly, unquiet possession for a bad man to have. Who knows the metes and bounds of it? Who knows all its awful perhapses,--those shudderings and tremblings, which it can no more live down than it can outlive its own eternity?
pain discipline fruition
The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
pain children men
When a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains. Harper Lee
pain ignorance everyday
You had to form for yourself a lucid language for the world, to overcome the battering of experience, to replace everyday life's pain and harshness and wretched dreariness with - no not with certainty but with an ignorance you could live with. Deep ignorance, but still a kind that knew its limits. The limits were crucial. Gregory Benford
pain sadness ends
If you could be happy, really happy, for just a while, but you knew from the start that it would end in sadness, and bring pain afterwards, would you choose to have that happiness or would you avoid it? Gregory David Roberts
pain real blessing
To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain. Holly Near
pain loss losing
You're always going to survive the pain of loss. I can live with that confidence inside of me. Hope Solo
pain father heart
It's a complicated thing, knowing how much pain my father caused in my life and the lives of others whom I love, yet still holding love for him in my heart. No matter what he did, he was my father. He helped create the person I am.
pain suffering misery
Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer? Only a great wave of mankind's pity can surmount an immense wave of human misery? Ignacy Jan Paderewski
pain suffering flesh
The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness. Ignatius of Loyola
painter wanted
I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang. Hugo Chavez
pain fuel world
Pain is fuel for a fitter world Hrithik Roshan
pain inspiration reality
Through repeated practice of the body scan over time, we come to grasp the reality of our body as whole in the present moment. This feeling of wholeness can be experienced no matter what is wrong with your body. One part of your body, or many parts of your body, may be diseased or in pain or even missing, yet you can still cradle them in this experience of wholeness. - Jon Kabat Howard Zinn
painting endangered-species painter
To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species. Howard Hodgkin
pain guilty repentance
None but the guilty know the withering pains of repentance. Hosea Ballou
pain doe pleasure
Pleasure bought with pain does harm. Horace
pain phones bitter
Dave hung up. And unplugged the phone. With a fierce and bitter pain he stared at it, watching how, over and over again, it didn't ring. Guy Gavriel Kay
pain mistake past
Past mistakes cannot create a present pain; no mistake in life has the power to make us ache any more than the echo of someone crying can shed tears. Guy Finley
pain stress emotional
Looking to any angry, anxious, or otherwise stressed emotional state to help you sort out the pain you're in is like trying to organize your monthly bills by throwing them into a blender
pain taken pride
One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity. Friedrich Nietzsche
pain littles pity
Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.
painful terrible emancipation
It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.
pain suffering cost
Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.
pain feelings needs
When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so readily feeling consoled.
pain creativity hens
Pain makes hens and poets cackle.
pain humanity doubt
It is only great pain--that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering green firewood--that forces us philosophers to sink to our ultimate profundity and to do away with all the trust, everything good-natured, veil-imposing, mild and middling, on which we may have previously based our humanity. I doubt that such a pain makes us 'better'--but I know that it makes us deeper.