Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mason Cooley

Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thought. But pain comes on its own.

Mason Cooley

Pain pays no attention to moans or excuses.

Mason Cooley

Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.

Mason Cooley

Violence stops thought. Hence its popularity as a pain-killer.

Mason Cooley

Children enjoy inflicting pain until unhappiness teaches them tenderness.

Mason Cooley

With every physical pain, my moral fibre unravels a little.

Mary Astell

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.

Michael Grant

Which was how Britteny ended up nestled next to Mickey, under the shelter of a painter's drop cloth. She felt no pain. She saw no light. She heard, but barely. Her heart was still and silent. Yet she did not die.

Michael Grant

The pain was her whole world now. Pain and fear.

Michael Chertoff

I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.

Michael Chabon

Literature, like magic, has always been about the handling of secrets, about the pain, the destruction, and the marvelous liberation that can result when they are revealed. If a writer doesn't give away secrets, his own or those of the people he loves, if he doesn't court disapproval, reproach and general wrath, whether of friends, family or party apparatchiks... the result is pallid, inanimate, a lump of earth.

Melvin Burgess

Sometimes maybe you need an experience. The experience can be a person or it can be a drug. The experience opens a door that was there all the time but you never saw it. Or maybe it blasts you into outer space...All that negative stuff. All the pain...It just floted away from me, I just floated away from it...up and away...

Menander

If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men's troubles and that will comfort you.

Melody Beattie

...the pain that comes from loving someone who's in trouble can be profound.

Melody Beattie

Like it or not, i was already learning that in the worst and darkest time, I would find specks of light, moments of joy. What I didn't want to learn was the other, harsher lesson - that in life's brightest moments there would also be unbearable pain. p 87

Melody Beattie

Codependents are reactionaries. They overreact. They under-react. But rarely do they act. They react to the problems, pains, lives, and behaviors of others. They react to their own problems, pains, and behaviors.

Melody Beattie

There's a secret to get through loss, pain and grief. If we're alone we can't see who we are. When we join the club, other people become the mirror. Through them, we see ourselves and gain an understanding of what we're going through. Then slowly, real slowly, we learn to accept who we see in the mirror. Then you become the mirror for them; by being honest about who you are, you'll help them learn to love and accept themselves.

Melody Beattie

Real power comes when we stop holding others responsible for our pain, and we take responsibility for all our feelings.

Michael Josephson

There is within you, waiting to be called, a great source of power called courage. Call its name and it will give you the strength to confront challenges despite fear and to continue and the heart to continue with bold confidence despite the pain of caused by tragedy.

Michael J. Fox

Pain is temporary, film is forever.

Michael Jordan

Failure gave me strength. Pain was my motivation

Martina McBride

Love's the only house big enough for all the pain in the world.

Martha Plimpton

Once when we were fifteen, River (Phoenix) and I went out for this fancy dinner in Manhattan and I ordered soft-shell crabs. He left the restaurant and walked around on Park Avenue, crying. I went out and said, "I love you so much. Why?" He had such a pain that I was eating an animal, that he hadn't impressed on me what was right. I loved him for that. For his dramatic desire that we share every belief, that I be with him all the way

Mark Rothko

I will say without reservations that from my point of view there can be no abstractions. Any shape or area that has not the pulsating concreteness of real flesh and bones, its vulnerability to pleasure or pain is nothing at all. Any picture that does not provide the environment in which the breath of life can be drawn does not interest me.

Mark Rothko

A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.

Mark Crispin Miller

Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there is no problem with his syntax, grammar, or vocabulary, even if he happens to be lying. ... On the other hand, our president is extraordinarily tongue-tied when he's trying, off the cuff, to sound a note of idealism, magnanimity or -- especially -- compassion.

Marie Dressler

the human heart clings - even to its pain.

Ozzy Osbourne

Condemned to violence, arrested by pain. Inside the soul lies a man insane.

Ovid

With patience bear what pains you have deserved, Grieve, if you will, over what's unmerited.

Ovid

Suppressed pain chokes us; in our breasts It surges, adding ever to its strength.

Ovid

I am an exile; but it is the fault that pains; The punishment is nought; that it is deserved Is all the pain.

Ovid

There is some joy in weeping. For our tears Fill up the cup, then wash our pain away.

Ovid

Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.