Quotes about pain
pain garden self
If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the 'itch,' as Schopenhauer called it, appeared in the shape of the serpent. This capitalistic monster awakens in Adam and Eve the possibility that things could be better. Instantly, they are cast out of the garden and condemned to a life of toil, drudgery, and pain. Wants supplanted needs, and things have been going downhill ever since. Tom Hodgkinson
pain creating needs
Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure.
pain book insulting
The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book. Toni Morrison
pain eye storm
Pain. I seem to have an affection, a kind of sweettooth for it. Bolts of lightning, little rivulets of thunder. And I the eye of the storm.
pain heal without-pain
Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.
pain mean self
If you take racism away from certain people - I mean vitriolic racism as well as the sort of social racist - if you take that away, they may have to face something really terrible - misery, self-misery, and deep pain about who they are.
pain writing imagination
The writing is - I'm free from pain. It's the place where I live; it's where I have control; it's where nobody tells me what to do; it's where my imagination is fecund and I am really at my best. Nothing matters more in the world or in my body or anywhere when I'm writing.
pain memories healing
You know that old joke about potheads having bad memories? Well, the bad memories are like pain, discomfort, and fear. So you lose all that, and the body reacts by healing faster and stronger. Tommy Chong
pain mind body
There's not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it. (67) Tom Perrotta
painful surviving
Surviving is much more painful than death. Tom Clancy
pain knowing imagine
Knowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation gift for knowing that we ourselves are coming to an end. Before we get it we live in a continuous present, and imagine the future as more of that present. Happiness is endless happiness, innocent of its own sure passing. Pain is endless pain. Tobias Wolff
pain ideas suffering
Pain? He could handle that, no problem; it was the idea that the female he loved was suffering that made him want to either punch something or vomit in the corner. Tina St. John
pain guilt pounds
She wanted to feel him pound away her fears, a hammer to smash through all her guilt and pain and emptiness.
pain dark night
Weave me a rope from this dark despair, from this dull-eyed pain... Weave me a rope from this endless night, from this distant shore... Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times. Tim Finn
pain feet knees
When you elevate the heels more so than you elevate the sole of the foot, you trigger a cascade of compensations in the knees and hips that cause tight hip flexors, and then those hip flexors cause lower-back pain. Tim Ferriss
pain perspective long
The most challenging obstacle I've had to overcome was my endometriosis diagnosis. Besides the physical pain that I had to endure, I had to completely change my perspective on food. It was a huge challenge to have to change the way I'd eaten for so long. Tia Mowry
pain crazy emotional
The transformation is the most excruciating pain that you could possibly imagine, so you're mimicking this grand mal seizure while wearing crazy latex make-up. It's so bizarre. It's really out there. The most challenging part is the emotional and physical side of it. Sam Huntington
pain love-is elements
Oh, love. Love is best of all. There is no such total element, not even pain. Who has ever loved, knows this. I need not say more. Tanith Lee
pain yoga retreat
The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips. Taiye Selasi
pain lessons form
Some lessons are only delivered in the form of pain. Tablo
pain valor contempt
Valor is the contempt of death and pain. Tacitus
pain thinking afterlife
I don't expect too much from the afterlife, I think that I know very well what pain is. When I think of the end of my life, I think mainly: I didn't do nothing, but I could have done more. Sylvia Kristel
pain thinking baths
I am sure there are things that can't be cured by a good bath but I can't think of one. Sylvia Plath
pain heart blood
The blood of love welled up in my heart with a slow pain.
pain thinking understanding
I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out. To learn and think: to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.
pain taken bye
Let's face it: I'm scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess I'm afraid for myself... the old primitive urge for survival. It's getting so I live every moment with terrible intensity. It all flowed over me with a screaming ache of pain... remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted. When you feel that this may be good-bye, the last time, it hits you harder.
pain self giving
Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body that work, not I. Tell yourself this unceasingly and realise it. Try not to know that you work. Swami Vivekananda
pain ignorance simple
This idea of body is a simple superstition. It is superstition that makes us happy or unhappy. It is superstition caused by ignorance that makes us feel heat and cold, pain and pleasure.
pain misery-and-pain attachment
All misery and pain come from attachment.
painting stem contrast
Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this. Roy Lichtenstein
pain laughing joy
Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all. Rosamund Pike
painting language miles
I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music to see how it felt to be without words. Rosanne Cash
pain dad singing
The religion I have is music. Even the times I have headaches, when I'm singing, I can't feel them. My dad used to say that, too, especially near the end of his life. He would be in pain - a lot of pain - and he said the only time when he didn't feel pain was when he performed and sang.