Quotes about pain
pain elements blank
Pain has an element of blank Emily Dickinson
pain memories steps
There is a pain so utter, it swallows being up; The covers the abyss with a trance So memory can step around, across, upon it. Emily Dickinson
pain past elements
Pain - has an Element of Blank It cannot recollect When it begun - or if there were a time when it was not - It has no Future - but itself - Its Infinite contain Its Past - enlightened to perceive New Periods - of Pain. Emily Dickinson
pain sea consciousness
You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me. Emily Dickinson
pain heart humility
Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it, Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee, Proud of my night since thou with moons dost slake it, Not to partake thy passion, my humility. Emily Dickinson
pain flames blood
Yellow can express happiness, and then again, pain. There is flame red, blood red, and rose red; there is silver blue, sky blue, and thunder blue; every color harbors its own soul, delighting or disgusting or stimulating me. Emil Nolde
pain cry socialism
Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain. Emile Durkheim
pain
All of this is going to take time. There's going to be a lot of pain for a lot of people.
pain ass reacting
It's a pain in the ass, show business. And the only time that I really enjoy it is when I'm in front of an audience and they're reacting to me. Elaine Stritch
pain writing tragedy
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. Edith Hamilton
pain remembrance suffering
Pain is the most individualized thing on earth. It is true that it is the great common bond as well, but that realization only comes when it is over. To suffer is to be alone. To watch another suffer is to know the barrier that shuts each of us away by himself Only individuals can suffer. Edith Hamilton
painting disaster changing-my-life
Paintings helped to change my life. I'd still be living a life of disaster without it. Eddie Cahill
pain self ego
When the pain that the little me creates for itself becomes intense enough, the ego will self-destruct. It has a self-destruct mechanism built in, fortunately, so eventually every ego dies. Eckhart Tolle
pain life-and-death aliens
You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures followed by pain and ultimate annihilation. Eckhart Tolle
pain home flames
A person dies, or something you had identified with completely is gone. Your home goes up in flames. There is extreme pain at first. But whenever a form dissolves, which is called "death," what remains is an opening into emptiness. Eckhart Tolle
pain joy
You are the love and joy beneath the pain. Eckhart Tolle
pain light flames
Pain is the fuel that lights the flame of our enlightenment Eckhart Tolle
pain suicidal emotional
All inner resistance is experienced as negativity in one form or another. All negativity is resistance. In this context, the two words are almost synonymous. Negativity ranges from irritation or impatience to fierce anger, from a depressed mood or sullen resentment to suicidal despair. Sometimes the resistance triggers the emotional pain body Eckhart Tolle
pain grace mind
Humans have been in the grip of pain for eons, ever since they fell from the state of grace, entered the realm of time and mind, and lost awareness of Being. At that point, they started to perceive themselves as meaningless fragments in an alien universe, unconnected to the Source and to each other. Eckhart Tolle
pain identity want
The pain-body wants to survive, just like every other entity in existence, and it can only survive if it gets you to unconsciously identify with it. Eckhart Tolle
pain emotional thinking
Focus attention on the feeling inside you. Know that it is the pain-body. Accept that it is there. Don't think about it - don't let the feeling turn into thinking. Don't judge or analyze. Don't make an identity for yourself out of it. Stay present, and continue to be the observer of what is happening inside you. Become aware not only of the emotional pain but also of "the one who observes," the silent watcher. This is the power of the Now, the power of your own conscious presence. Then see what happens. Eckhart Tolle
pain real sleep
It was inevitable: Yankel fell in love with his never-wife. He would wake from sleep to miss the weight that never depressed the bed next to him, remember in earnest the weight of gestures she never made, long for the un-weight of her un-arm slung over his too-real chest, making his widower's rememberences that much more convincing and his pain that much more real. Jonathan Safran Foer
pain real believe
Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria or your own unfeminine inadequacy. Women have learned to submit to pain by hearing authority figures - doctors, priests, psychiatrists - tell us that what we feel is not pain. Naomi Wolf
pain genius infinite
Genius is merely the capacity for taking infinite pains. Napoleon Hill
pain men evil
Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to him. When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain. Napoleon Bonaparte
pain blow wind
The oboe's a horn made of wood. I'd play you a tune if I could, But the reeds are a pain, And the fingering's insane. It's the ill wind that no one blows good.
pain self laughing
Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat... Never take yourself too seriously. Og Mandino
paint
I paint life as I would like it to be, Norman Rockwell
pain who-i-am sound
Crude thoughts and fierce forces are my state. I do not know who I am. Nor what I was. I cannot hear a sound. Pain is near that will be like no pain felt before. Norman Mailer
pain suffering trials
No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. Orson F. Whitney
pain heart character
No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable. Orson F. Whitney
pain loneliness imagination
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work. Orhan Pamuk
pain memories next-day
Time had not faded my memories (as I had prayed to God it might), nor had it healed my wounds as it is said always to do. I began each day with the hope that the next day would be better, my recollections a little less pointed, but I would awake to the same pain, as if a black lamp were burning eternally inside me, radiating darkness. Orhan Pamuk