In Pain Quotes

Most people fear pain. I've learned that not feeling pain is a much more frightening proposition than feeling it. In fact, there are times when I'm playing when I actually enjoy it.

Words cause pain, they evoke anger, they make us hate, they lead us to war. But they also make us laugh, bring us joy, and satisfying our emotional hungers.

The time has come to listen to the frightened moans of our fellow brothers and sisters and indeed the earth itself is in pain.

Chiropractic solved my neck and shoulder pains; it put me back on my feet. I think chiropractic is great!

Why are we, the most medicalized of societies, a culture in pain?

Hasn't anyone thought to look at outcomes as a logical way to figure out what really works? Not until recently. That tells you how far out of the picture the patient has been.

Any time you throw pain at a Jackal without a clear present request, within a millisecond he'll jump in.

Not getting our needs fulfilled is painful - but it's a sweet pain, not suffering, which is what comes from life-alienated thinking and interpretation.

Never connect yourself with the other person's pain. Just hear their need. Leave yourself out of the other person's feelings and needs.

As soon as you say, "are you feeling X because I ..." Then the Jackal starts to salivate because he can educate the person that he's the cause of his pain.

Time and again, people transcend the paralyzing effects of psychological pain when they have sufficient contact with someone who can hear them empathically.

If you want to enjoy intimacy, you must learn to enjoy pain.

More is learned in pain than in pleasure.

I want you to notice is that-right here, right now-you’re okay. You may be in pain, you may be in fear, you may be in grief. But you’re here, you’re surviving; this moment is okay.

Imagination is the doorway you walk through into every future moment. Are you walking through doorways to pain or to joy?

You will know how to stop suffering as soon as suffering ceases to be valuable. If you are in pain, you are being led.

The infinity of this vacancy, the pervasive pain, the longing for some spirit, some lightness, some joy - that's all that is left.

Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.

Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.

Everyone is right up there at the very brink of their pain limit.

The truth may hurt, but love helps ease the pain.

God's love for us is constant and will not diminish, but he cannot rescue us from the painful results that are caused by wrong choices.

It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.

I can't imagine a pain more all-encompassing than losing a child.

I just want to protect them no matter how much pain befalls me.

Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thought. But pain comes on its own.

Pain pays no attention to moans or excuses.

Children enjoy inflicting pain until unhappiness teaches them tenderness.

Violence stops thought. Hence its popularity as a pain-killer.

Dancers dance through their pain I shrink from mine.

I think people can get a little weirded out by pain, suffering, and death. They don't know what to do so they end up saying things that are hurtful to people who have experienced loss.

I'm becoming far more interested in just functionality and making sure my body is as strong as it can be so I can swing my kids around and not worry about aches and pains.

I'm not going to stop torturing myself till I figure out the cause of my pain.

If at first you don't succeed - give it up. It isn't worth the pain.

The possibility of pain is where love stems from

I write songs to handle emotional pain. I guess what they say is true: with every heartache comes a great song. I also pray and have great friends.

All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness that impairs, all griefs that bow, Find their sole voice in that victorious brow.

The only way to learn compassion is through your heart; you have to back up and pass through your own pain.

When you are in pain, a moment is an eternity.

I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you're expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you're not asking for it.

It hurts to look at the clouds, but it also helps, like most things that cause pain.

Pain is itself a god: the taskmaster of life. Pain cracks the whip, and all that lives will move. To live is to be a slave to pain.

Rejoicing is the essence of genuine worship. A sad face (apart from remorse for sin or regret concerning the pain of others) is an affront to a gracious and generous God.

God realizes His people need protection from the pains and heartaches of the world.

A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain.

The Bible teaches us that God does not cause pain, but that He uses pain and evil to advance His cause and shape His servants.

I believe for God not to allow pain to happen in the world is for Him to extract free will from the world.

I try to help people see that God uses pain, that pain is one of the ways God shapes us into the kind of beings He wants us to be for eternity.

Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God? I try to help people see that God uses pain, that pain is one of the ways God shapes us into the kind of beings He wants us to be for eternity.

Filter your pain through the brevity of this life and the unending beauty of the next.