Quotes about pain
pain eye ears
There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound. Thomas Hardy
pain drama episodes
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
pain religion bears
The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. Thomas B. Macaulay
pain reading men
He that is to govern a whole Nation , must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but Mankind; which though it be hard to do, harder than to learn any Language, or Science; yet, when I shall have set down my own reading orderly, and perspicuously, the pains left another, will be only to consider, if he also find not the same in himself. For this kind of Doctrine, admitteth no other Demonstration. Thomas Hobbes
pain men giving
There is no action of man in this life that is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences as no human providence is high enough to give a man a prospect in the end. And in this chain, there are linked together both pleasing and unpleasing events in such manner as he that will do anything for his pleasure must engage himself to suffer all the pains annexed to it.
pain trying cost
It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible. Tim Bishop
pain war blessed
We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage - almost as if history were nothing more than all the narratives of human pain, assembled in sequence. And surely this is, often enough, an adequate description. But history is also the narratives of grace, the recountings of those blessed and inexplicable moments when someone did something for someone else, saved a life, bestowed a gift, gave something beyond what was required by circumstance. Thomas Cahill
pain destiny chains-that-bind
A glance, a word -- and joy or pain befalls.... How slight the links are in the chain that binds us to our destiny! Thomas Bailey Aldrich
pain collaboration painful
Collaboration is no longer painful - or precious. Vince Clarke
pain expression long
In fact, on one occasion, a rather pedantic experimental psychologist was telling him about a long, complicated experiment he had done, incorporating all the proper controls and using considerable technical virtuosity. When he saw Crick's exasperated expression he said, "but Dr. Crick, we have got it right - we know it's right," Crick's response was, "The point is not whether it's right. The point is: does it even matter whether its right or wrong?" Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
pain long degrees
The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment. Vince Cable
pain book loss
Jesmyn Ward is an alchemist. She transmutes pain and loss into gold. Men We Reaped illustrates hardships but thankfully, vitally, it's just as clear about the humor, the intelligence, the tenderness, the brilliance of the folks in DeLisle, Mississippi. A community that's usually wiped off the literary map can't be erased when it's in a book this good. Victor LaValle
pain dancing scripts
Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me. Victoria Abril
pain hockey play
You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap, or the soreness, or all the aches and pains and continue to play for a long, long time. Gordie Howe
pain enchanted greater
The more enchanted the idyll, greater must be the pain of its ending. Georgette Heyer
painting
A poem is like a painting. Horace
pain pleasure despise
Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.
pain player differences
That's always a concern with a player when he's injured. There's a difference between injured and pain. If a guy's injured, he's injured. Pain is pain. Guys can play with pain. Guys can't play when they're injured. Herman Edwards
pain poor i-can
I can connect with peoples' pain because I was 'po' before I was 'poor'. Herman Cain
pain tides pleasure
Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life. Herbert Spencer
pain regulation way
Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.
pain pity sensitive
To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain. Herman Melville
pain men people
Surrounded as we are by the wants and woes of our fellow-men, and yet given to follow our own pleasures, regardless of their pains, are we not like people sitting up with a corpse, and making merry in the house of the dead?
pain ass infringement
The Wright Amendment is a pain in the ass, but not every pain in the ass is a constitutional infringement. Herb Kelleher
pain memories taken
Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners? Henry David Thoreau
pain men world
If anything ail a man, so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even,- for that is the seat of sympathy,-he forthwith sets about reforming the world.
pain grief suffering
Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief more poignant. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
pain thinking artist
I think, as an artist, you have to have experienced some deep turmoil, some kind of pain, because that's what connects you with the world. That's what makes it juicy! Jill Scott
pain thinking unhappy
I Don't Think There's A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I'm Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain, Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You're Alive Is By How Much Pain You're Experiencing, Or How Little... Jerry Garcia
pain thinking financial
There is a lot of pain still to be had in the equity markets, particularly aimed at the risky end of the spectrum. We think the fair value on the market is about a third lower in the U.S. . . Jeremy Grantham
pain fighting men
Remorse of conscience is like an old wound; a man is in no condition to fight under such circumstances. The pain abates his vigor and takes up too much of his attention. Jeremy Collier
pain pleasure setting
Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good. Jeremy Bentham
pain thinking two
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.