In Pain Quotes

There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things

Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.

The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.

Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.

If the soul be pure, then shall she obtain favor and rejoice in the latter day; but if she hath been defiled, then shall she wander for a time in pain and despair.

Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain.

Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term gain for long-term pain.

You know what? I was wrong. You are an idiot. My life happens to, on occasion, suck beyond the telling of it. Sometimes more than I can handle.

Nothing lasts-not even pain.

In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.

The biggest black eye that you can give the devil is to give God your pain and let Him turn it into gain.

I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there's nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.

You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.

I have this soft spot for have-nots. So, I was really inclined to portray their pain and pathos in 'Highway.'

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.

I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfil our minimum obligation not to cause pain, we have the right to kill animals.

A medical profession founded on callousness to the pain of the other animals may eventually destroy its own sensibility to the pain of humans.

This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.

Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence.

I don't think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to learn.

Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos.

Now that another is suffering pain at thy hand, trust not that thy heart shall be exempt from affliction.

There is nothing abstract about pain. It is specific, it is real, and, when it is intense, it is world destroying.

There's something about [pain] that excites me. If I'm feeling really awful about something, it's because I haven't experienced it before. There's something I need to learn from it.

Even the promiscuous feel pain.

There is a place on earth that is a vast desolate wilderness, a place populated by shadows of the dead in their multitudes, a place where the living are dead, where only death, hate and pain exist.

I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain.

There's a lot of pain in my heart because what I accomplished was second to none. I'm not losing any sleep, but I do pay attention every year at this time.

Condemned to violence, arrested by pain. Inside the soul lies a man insane.

There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.

Saving was slow and painful.

The samurais were very interested in Zen because they admired the tremendous precision that the Zen Masters had, their lack of fear and pain and their absolute lack of fear of death.

Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?

Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

A person's age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.

Do not look at life's long sorrow; see how small each moment's pain.

The pain and suffering that comes to us has a purpose in our lives-it is trying to teach us something. We should look for its lesson.

Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over, doth endure the pains of evil destiny.

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

The American spirit is stronger than stone and mortar, tougher than steel and glass, and more enduring than any pain or suffering that can be inflicted on our national conscience.

The struggle of my life created empathy... I could relate to pain... being abandoned... having people not love me.

surrounded by strangers who love me (un)strangers made strange by pain

If you're hurting, you need to help somebody else ease their hurt. If you're in pain, help somebody else's pain.

Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it, Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee, Proud of my night since thou with moons dost slake it, Not to partake thy passion, my humility.