Pain Quotes

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

The body is sort of a pain. It has to go to the bathroom. It has to be comfortable. But the spirit is indestructible. It can move at the speed of light.

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

I've made millions of dollars with the body I have, so where's the pain in that?

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

I think you can feel the pain I've experienced in my music. It's something that a lot of people can relate to.

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

I do get the comics online I guess but it's such a pain. I'd rather just get them in the paper and read them.

Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.

If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

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

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

I want 'Flesh Of My Flesh' to be like my connection to the community, I want to say what's on my peoples' minds, soak up all their pain. I've learned that when I take it all in, I can make one brotha's pain be understood by the world.

Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.

Imagine, for example, birds. When they look out at the world, they have a sense that they are alive. If they are in pain, they can do something about it. If they have hunger or thirst, they can satisfy that. It's this basic feeling that there is life ticking away inside of you.

When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer.

When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'

Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.

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.

I don't particularly like going on about being gay or making a big thing about it, but I think it's a bit of a pain to be secretive about it.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

Pain doesn't have a face and pain doesn't have a certain way of adjusting. Pain is universal.

All of my books come from pain.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Researches tested a new form of medical marijuana that treats pain but doesn't get the user high, prompting patients who need medical marijuana to declare, 'Thank you?'

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

What I think I've been able to do well over the years is play with pain, play with problems, play in all sorts of conditions.

Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional W.W.F. wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and that they're going to destroy their opponent. Then they get hit once and fall down and roll around in agony and suddenly seem immobilized by pain, calling for the ref to intervene.

The basic rhymes in English are masculine, which is to say that the last syllable of the line is stressed: 'lane' rhymes with 'pain,' but it also rhymes with 'urbane' since the last syllable of 'urbane' is stressed. 'Lane' does not rhyme with 'methane.'

All they teach you in drama school is how to do stage fights and be a pain in rehearsals.

When you elevate the heels more so than you elevate the sole of the foot, you trigger a cascade of compensations in the knees and hips that cause tight hip flexors, and then those hip flexors cause lower-back pain.

Pain is temporary, film is forever.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife's Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights.

The marathon always starts after 30K. That's where the problems start. You start without any problems, without any pain. All the pain comes after 30K. Sometimes, it's possible to have pain even in the finger.

In some ways that fight gave me more respect around the world and helped me be even more popular because so many people felt my pain and saw that I was robbed.

We all know pain doesn't exist without some coexisting depression.

I think everyone holds back. I am always censoring myself and I'm sorry about it. But I always have to consider whether my remarks might cause someone pain.

Because one of the benefits of getting older, I guess-there are very few benefits, really - most of them are a pain in the butt. People depend on me more; they believe in me more, they think I'm good.

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.

Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.

Detroit is a city that really stands out. It's been through a very difficult time. There's been a lot of pain here, and the city, physically, has suffered. You can see it in certain neighborhoods, and there's buildings downtown that have been abandoned.

And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain.

I don't look on the Internet; it's a world of pain.

I wouldn't want to see any animal in pain, no matter what.

I get along great with directors, but I think some producers would tell you I'm a pain. They may say I'm tough to work with, but I have a great passion for what I do. I believe in fighting for it.

You can call me a pain. I'll accept that as a compliment.

The nature of the game is pain.

I think either you're creative or you're not. In general, I don't think you need to be in pain to actually be creative unless you're writing love songs. Then you might need to have some ups and downs within your emotions to start to capture that.

But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain Make Good Together there we can begin again, In babyhood.

You don't have to hold onto the pain to hold onto the memory.

We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.