In Pain Quotes

The beautiful thing about pain is that it evokes honesty.

Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.

I accept emotional pain, walk through it, and then come through the other side.

Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.

You'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides.

You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility.

In order to handle my emotional pain I talk to friends about it, I write, I breathe, and most of all, I put it in perspective.

Pain is only temporary, no matter how long it lasts.

It pains me deeply to see members of my own party attempting to legislate women's health and contraception choices.

I'm an artist, therefore I think I am sensitive to human pain.

There's no better way to process pain than to write.

What were the bodies like on the beach? Ugly and white and ruined by offices.

I must have physical exercise, or my temper'll certainly be ruined.

Say "yes" to life! "Yes" to wonder, to joy, to despair. "Yes" to pain, "yes" to what you don't understand. Try "yes." Try "always." Try "possible." Try "hopeful." Try "I will." And try "I can."

I think that pain gives us appreciation of joy - it's a package deal. And I definitely think that the joys of life far outweigh the pain.

Yesterday's pain is the Warrior of the Light's strength.

I write books to relieve ­myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period.

Pain is a poison; pleasure an intoxicant.

I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliché for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories.

What do you know about sooner or later? Is a moment only a moment when you're in pain?

Journal became a sanctuary where I could pour out in honesty my pain and joy. It recorded my footsteps and helped me understand where I was standing, where I had been, and even where God pointed.

Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.

Beethoven's string quartets express pain itself; it is not MY pain.

A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.

Experiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experiences first hand.

I think about every song is pretty much raw emotion - even if it's not specifically about topic there's songs like "All I Know Is Pain" and "Green Piece of Paper".

Soothing words can become just another drug we swallow to dull our pain.

Friends can hurt you, but the possibility of pain with lovers is so much greater because your expectations are so high. You don't ask as much of your friends.

Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?

My mum and I have an incredible friendship now after a mixture of pain, honesty, unconditional love and a long break from each other

It is an extraordinary act of courage,' said Tulas Shorn, 'to come to know a stranger's pain.

Even while you're in pain, your happiness will be waiting

But, for as cold and wretched as it looks, the sun has not forsaken it. He has only drawn away from it a little, for good reasons, one of which is that we may learn that we cannot do without him.

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.

Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.

I didn't really understand that Vipassana is a relatively new form of Buddhism that was based on the storage of pain. So the idea is that every time you don't scream, that's your Buddhist side.

Pain is the difference between what is and what I want it to be.

The cause of so much suffering and pain and one of the impediments to our spiritual progress, is the conditioning of expecting things to go our way, even in our spiritual life.

Decent responsible parents are a royal pain- that's how you know when you have them [such parents].

Too many people make the past their identity and spend the rest of their lives accumulating sympathy for their past pain.

In this world, all pleasures are sources of pain.

A hurt body and mind aren't just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain, no despot so cruel as confusion.

I work my back 'til it's racked with pain, the boss can't even recall my name.

The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as possible to string along with your delusions.

Now and then I see something in her eyes, and I wonder if I’ve ever grasped how much pain she’s really in.

The presence of another caring person doubles the amount of pain a person can endure.

If sequestered pain made a sound, the atmosphere would be humming all the time.

Love's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.