Quotes about pain
pain sky confusion
In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion. Ishmael Beah
pain thinking done
To tell the truth, this was one of the few cases in which she had not told him just what she was thinking. Usually, she let him know whatever thoughts happened to come to her, and indeed he never took it amiss if she let slip a word that might pain him, because when all was said and done that was the price one paid for sincerity.
pain somewhere-else doors
The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else... Irvin D. Yalom
pain growth want
If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
pain coffee class
That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure to be derived from seeing members of the ruling class in pain and torment. Irvine Welsh
pain book reading
It was the books I started reading. It was the music I started listening to. It was the television I started watching. I found myself thinking again. I tried to stop because it was only causing pain. I couldn't. Wen all this is in your head it has to come out into your life. If it doesn't, you get crushed. I'm not going to get crushed.
pain sleep laughing
Almost any tale of our doings is comic. We are bottomlessly comic to each other. Even the most adored and beloved person is comic to his lover. The novel is a comic form. Language is a comic form, and makes jokes in its sleep. God, if He existed, would laugh at His creation. Yet it is also the case that life is horrible, without metaphysical sense, wrecked by chance, pain and the close prospect of death. Out of this is born irony, our dangerous and necessary tool. Iris Murdoch
pain smart people
They all trying to say something with music that you can't say with plain talk. There ain't really no words for love or pain. And the way I see it, only fools go around trying to talk their love or talk their pain. So the smart people make music and you can kinda hear about it without them saying anything. Gloria Naylor
pain believe abuse
when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it's very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain. Gloria Steinem
pain husband productive-work
In the U.S. for instance, the value of a homemaker's productive work has been imputed mostly when she was maimed or killed and insurance companies and/or the courts had to calculate the amount to pay her family in damages. Even at that, the rates were mostly pink collar and the big number was attributed to the husband's pain and suffering.
pain fall heart
About 2500 years ago Aeschylus, the Greek playwright, wrote, He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. These remarkable photos and the stories that accompany them should be on billboards from sea to shining sea, so the pain and suffering they represent might fall drop by drop upon the American psyche and against our will, by the awful grace of God, wisdom might come to these United States and her foreign policy. Gioconda Belli
pain stupid absent
What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt? Giordano Bruno
pain acting ass
Joan of Arc should be played as a "pain in the ass" and how do I know she was a "pain in the ass"? ... because they burn her at the end. Harold Clurman
pain memories struggle
Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic value rises out of memory, and so (as Nietzsche saw) out of pain, the pain of surrendering easier pleasures in favour of much more difficult ones ... successful literary works are achieved anxieties, not releases from anxieties. Harold Bloom
pain waiting shapes
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain. J. Michael Straczynski
pain pleasure these-days
Pleasure is hard to come by, but pain is everywhere these days, I must learn to subsist on it. J. M. Coetzee
pain doubt subjects
Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.
pain men suffering
Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human —” “THEN — I — DON’T — WANT — TO — BE — HUMAN!” Harry roared. J. K. Rowling
pain potters facts
The fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength
pain voice feelings
There is no shame in what you are feeling, Harry,' said Dumbledore's voice. 'On the contrary... the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.
pain sound hermione
Hermione was screaming again: the sound went through Harry like physical pain.
pain grief sweat
On Harry dug, deeper and deeper into the hard, cold earth, subsuming his grief in sweat, denying the pain in his scar.
pain silence feelings
The silence was unbearable to him. If the pictures could have reflected the feelings inside him, they would have been screaming in pain.
pain powerful men
Perhaps a reign of powerful women is necessary to make, or unmake when need be, powerful men. Women would not waste so readily and uselessly the lives they had such care and pain in bearing. Why should they submit to the massacre of the innocent, one generation after another ... and allow them to be brought up as live-stock for the inevitable killing? Natalie Clifford Barney
pain evil pleasure
You can't have good without evil, pleasure without pain, and so on. Ken Wilber
pain joy earth
That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb. Kathy Mattea
pain emotional worthwhile
The only thing that gets me through any type of pain, emotional or physical, is to make it worthwhile by putting it into my work. Julia Stiles
pain people causes
Seeing other people in pain causes me pain.
pain motivation animal
The simplest and clearest motivation for taking animal welfare seriously is the recognition that pain is in and of itself a bad thing, and that to inflict significant amounts of it unnecessarily is wrong. Julian Baggini
pain taken drunk
Whisky, I find, helps clarity of thought. And reduces pain. It has the additional virtue of making you drunk or, if taken in sufficient quantity, very drunk. Julian Barnes
pain pleasure teach
And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.
pain mcmurphy one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest
But he won’t let the pain blot out the humor no more’n he’ll let the humor blot out the pain. Ken Kesey
pain people bags
Lately I’d begun carrying pain amulets in my bag, like some people have breath mints. Kim Harrison