Quotes about pain
pain men honor
The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains. Jean de la Bruyere
pain failure thinking
He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it; he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it. Jean de la Bruyere
pain men firsts
The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
painful written
It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you. Jayson Blair
pain rain clouds
Sometimes I don't know what to say; the pain never stops. The cloud never goes away, the rain never drops Jay Electronica
pain issues botox
According to a new study, Botox injections can help back pain. So you see, that's why John Kerry had all that Botox - his back was killing him from all that flip-flopping on issues. Jay Leno
pain joy life-is
The pain we feel When someone leaves our life is in direct proportion to the joy they bring while a part of our life for a few moments. In my life you made me feel as if I truly meant something to someone
pain love-you words-love
When you truly know the meaning of the word love, you will also know the meaning of the word pain.
pain mind delight
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight. Joseph Joubert
pain men decision
The measure of a man comes down to moments, spread out like dots of pain on the canvas on life. Everything you were, everything you'll someday be, resides in the small, seemingly ordinary choices of everyday life.....Each decision seems as insignificant as a left turn on an unfamiliar road when you have no destination in mind. But the decisions accumulate until you realize one day that they've made you the man that you are. Kristin Hannah
pain three obscure
Before this trip and all that she'd learned about the three of them, she would have gotten angry or changed the subject. Anything to obscure the pain she felt. Now she knew better. You carried your pain with you in life. There was no outrunning it. Kristin Hannah
pain first-love firsts
Jude remembered this pain. Every woman had felt some version of it: the end of first love. It was when you learned, for good and always, that love could be impermanent. Kristin Hannah
pain genius definitions
We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains. Knute Rockne
pain taken eye
I suffered no pain, my hunger had taken the edge off; instead I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and happy to be unseen by all. I put my legs up on the bench and leaned back, the best way to feel the true well-being of seclusion. There wasn't a cloud in my mind, nor did I feel any discomfort, and I hadn't a single unfulfilled desire or craving as far as my thought could reach. I lay with open eyes in a state of utter absence from myself and felt deliciously out of it. Knut Hamsun
pain heart sea
An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more frequent appearance in them of mental states of great strangeness ... a wordless and irrational feeling of ecstasy; or a breath of psychic pain; a sense of being spoken to from afar, from the sky or the sea; an agonizingly developed sense of hearing which can cause one to wince at the murmuring of unseen atoms; an irrational staring into the heart of some closed kingdom suddenly and briefly revealed. Knut Hamsun
pain children debt
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain. Moliere
pain war differences
As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with those who attacked you. You retreated into myths of your own difference, assumptions of your own superiority. And you acted out these beliefs on the stage of the world, so that the entire planet was rocked by the repercussions of your tantrums, not least my family, now facing war thousands of miles away. Mohsin Hamid
painting
Keep painting - day in - day out. Be absorbed by it. Milton Avery
pain cutting government
Cutting government spending and government intrusion in the economy will almost surely involve immediate gain for the many, short-term pain for the few, and long-term gain for all. Milton Friedman
pain skills names
This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name Mike Shinoda
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. Julia Stiles
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. Julian Barnes
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
pain eye honor
The seraph looked up, and pain sliced through my head as our eyes met, almost blinding me. "I honor you. You can do something I cannot," it said softly. "For all I am and all I have been, you are human. You are loved for your inventiveness, both good and bad. I can kill, but you can create. You can even create...an end," it said wistfully. "That's something I will never be able to do. Accept this. Create. Kim Harrison
pain sky wings
Tears could not be equal, if I wept diamonds from the skies," Jenks whispered, empty and bereft. "My word silent, though I should howl. Muffled by death, my wings can't lift me high enough to find you. I feel you within. Unaware of my pain. Not knowing why I mourn. And why I breathe alone. Kim Harrison
pain details different
All pain is the same. Only the details are different. Kevin Powers