Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Bantock

in the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction.

Nick Bantock

Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows

Nancy Gibbs

Maybe as times get worse we get better. Our pain makes us feel other people's too; our fear lets us practice valor; we are tense, and tender as well. And among the things we can no longer afford are things we never really wanted anyway...

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.

Paul Feig

Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional W.W.F. wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and that they're going to destroy their opponent. Then they get hit once and fall down and roll around in agony and suddenly seem immobilized by pain, calling for the ref to intervene.

Matthew Fox

The only way to learn compassion is through your heart; you have to back up and pass through your own pain.

Matthew Fox

We must work on our souls, enlarging and expanding them. We do so by experiencing all of life-the beauty and the joy as well as the grief and pain. Soul work requires paying attention to life, to the laughter and the sorrow, the enlightening and the frightening, the inspiring and the silly.

Matt Groening

I'm not going to stop torturing myself till I figure out the cause of my pain.

Matt Groening

If at first you don't succeed - give it up. It isn't worth the pain.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.

Marya Hornbacher

At times it may seem worse - harder, at least - to live through the despair of this loss without the temporary comfort of our addictive behaviour. We cannot drown our sorrows. We must face the fact that we don’t know, really, where we are, how we got here, how long the pain will last, or how to move past it. That uncertainty may be the most painful part of not knowing a God: no one is there to reassure us that a God will take the pain and confusion away. We simply don’t know. And we have no way to numb ourselves or to forget the condition we’re in.

Marya Hornbacher

In truth, you like the pain. You like it because you believe you deserve it.

Mary Gauthier

The process of grief has a beginning a middle and an end. The hard part is holding on in the middle. You can hold on. There's transformation happening in these times bringing you to a new place. It's a place you can only get to through the pain.

Mary J. Blige

So as long as I'm a human being and I'm not perfect, I'm able to say I'm having some growing pains. Because in order to sustain where you are once you made such a breakthrough that everyone is looking at you, now everyone is like, 'Ooh, is she gonna make a mistake?' Yes, I'm going to make a mistake. Yes, I'm still gonna do things.

Mary J. Blige

Really, every woman is an example to me, because as women we go through so much pain. We have to live this perfect life when we are messed up inside. We all go through trials and tribulations.

Mary J. Blige

You can't get around pain and opposition, but you can try to be joyful in the trial, and thank yourself for the trial, and thank God for the strength to get through it.

Martha Gellhorn

What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.

Martha Beck

I want you to notice is that-right here, right now-you’re okay. You may be in pain, you may be in fear, you may be in grief. But you’re here, you’re surviving; this moment is okay.

Martha Beck

You will know how to stop suffering as soon as suffering ceases to be valuable. If you are in pain, you are being led.

Martha Beck

Imagination is the doorway you walk through into every future moment. Are you walking through doorways to pain or to joy?

Marion Zimmer Bradley

A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Darling, I wish I could help you. Try to remember this: to live, you need every experience. Some will come in glory and in beauty, and some in pain and what seems like ugliness. But - they are. Life consists of opposites in balance.

Maria Monk

So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children.

Oswald Chambers

The entrance into the Kingdom is through the panging pains of repentance crashing into a man's respectable goodness; then the Holy Ghost, who produces these agonies begins the formation of the Son God in the life.

Oswald Chambers

The heart of salvation is the Cross of Christ. The reason salvation is so easy to obtain is that it cost God so much. The Cross was the place where God and sinful man merged with a tremendous collision and where the way to life was opened. But all the cost and pain of the collision was absorbed by the heart of God.

Paul Goodman

We define boredom as the pain a person feels when he's doing nothing or something irrelevant, instead of something he wants to do but won't, can't, or doesn't dare. Boredom is acute when he knows the other thing and inhibits his action, e.g., out of politeness, embarrassment, fear of punishment or shame. Boredom is chronic if he has repressed the thought of it and no longer is aware of it. A large part of stupidity is just the chronic boredom, for a person can't learn, or be intelligent about, what he's not interested in, when his repressed thoughts are elsewhere.

Paul Auster

Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.

Pat Barker

It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain.