In Pain Quotes

Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't know if that's because I'm a human being or because I'm an Irishman or both.

There must be a technique for meeting pain. There must be a technique of endurance based on the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity, as Marcus Aurelius taught long ago.

Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down and makes it corporeal, accepting as true whatever the body certifies.

Suspicion is most often useless pain.

As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.

Entertainment is about taking people away from the regular order of things when there is some chaos and pain and stress.

People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.

We go to great pains to alter life for the happiness of our descendants and our descendants will say as usual: things used to be so much better, life today is worse than it used to be.

The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.

Often the thought of pain is actually worse that the pain itself.

If you care about something enough, it’s going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use your pain. Use your fear. Get mad. Arnold, get mad.

Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.

In a 50 mile radius around Chicago one can see the red aura of pain, agony, terror, anger from all the animals being butchered there.

I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing.

Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.

No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.

So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.

The marks humans leave are too often scars.

Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Commonality doesn't inoculate against hurt.

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.

In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.

Saying sorry doesn't mean there isn't guilt & forgiving doesn't mean that the pain is gone.

The minute I'm in a little pain ... your rough, tough, scary bad boy image totally falls apart.

I can't... I find that I can't concentrate. On anything. I can't really..." Rhage's eyes drifted to Zsadist. "How do you live with it? All the anger. The pain. The...

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.

God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.

It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust. Hatred alone is immortal.

If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer.

If I have a lot of adrenaline in my body, that is helpful because I feel less pain

Often it's the deepest pain which empowers you to grow into your highest self.

Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always despair, and always the same.

But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.

I wasn't very good about the pain. I started screaming for painkillers after the third contraction and didn't stop until my daughter was eating solid food.

It don't last forever, the pain. Realize that tomorrow is coming. Move further from this pain and this stress.

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?

If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would use such a servant cruelly.

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.

Russia has gone through eight years of continuing economic pain.

All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.

No one ever found out what was happening inside me. How the pain was eating me away. No one ever came to my rescue, or stood up for me.

Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain.