Pain Quotes

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get b...

Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.

Only knowledge can turn life's unbearableness into a weapon.

For a torture to be effective, the pain has to be spread out; it has to come at regular intervals, w...

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Suffering is normal. Pain is normal, it is part of life... What is its texture, the weight of our su...

This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.

In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace ...

Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.

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

If itWere lighter touchThan petal of flower restingOn grass, oh still too heavy it were,Too heavy!

Three grey women walk with me Fate and Grief and Memory. My fate brought grief; my grief must be Wit...

Pain ebbs, And like cool balm, An opiate weariness Settles on eye-lids, on relaxed Pale wrists.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the...

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain

Wisdom comes through suffering.Trouble, with its memories of pain,Drips in our hearts as we try to s...

For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

Maturity' really means: being very unsurprised by, and calm around, pain and disappointment.

And yet, troublingly, there is one difference between 'labour' and other elements [raw materials, ma...

It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value.

Few in this world are ever simply nasty; those who hurt us are themselves in pain. The appropriate r...

When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the b...

You don't usually think of boredom as something similar to pain. That's because you've only been exp...

I would like to be able to breathe— to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches...

At such moments the collapse of their courage, willpower, and endurance was so abrupt that they felt...

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. ...

Pain was a fascinating horror

Whatever may be my activity in a given moment (whether I am composing, or whether I am making love ....

Oh, Mercédès, I have spoken your name with sighs of melancholy, with groans of pain and with the cro...

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want...

Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, alway...

The voice of human nature is nothing but one prolonged cry.

This story sounds as though it were invented, but it is true from beginning to end. There are people...

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of u...

You think you can avoid [pain,] but you actually can't. If you do, you just get sicker, or you feel ...

Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. W...

When we ask for anything, we're almost always asking for help, in some form; help with money, permis...

In every change, in every falling leaf there is some pain, some beauty. And that's the way new leave...

Yoga is the process of eliminating pain – pain form the body, mind and the society.

One day we took the children to see a goldsmith refine gold after the ancient manner of the East. He...

I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me.

I wept because from now on I will weep less. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet acc...

Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept becau...

One does not learn to suffer less but to dodge pain.

I am a woman first of all. At the core of my work was a journal written for the father I lost, loved...

What cracks had he left in their hearts? Did they love less now and settle for less in return, as th...

What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of sub...

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes....

I am sorry, Miss Grey, you should think it necessary to interfere with Master Bloomfield's amusement...

Adieu! but let me cherish, still, The hope with which I cannot part. Contempt may wound, and coldnes...

We learn from pain that some of the things we thought were castles turn out to be prisons, and we de...

Some people have a thick skin and you don't. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pa...

Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.

And this time as the lashes come, try to think about the pain, instead of against it, because there ...

And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because...

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It'...

I was starting to come to grips with the fact that I had created a lot of pain and suffering around ...

There were times when I would sob until I shook, until my eyelids were so swollen that it pained me ...

In the absence of any therapy, the mentally ill of the 20th century were chained, shackled, straitja...

Classifying depression as an illness serves the psychiatric community and pharmaceutical corporation...

I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this-...

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only ...

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

One simple test of the claim that the pleasure in the world outweighs the pain…is to compare the fee...

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things tha...

Martin said, "It feels as though part of my self has detached and gone to Amsterdam, where it—she—is...

As if one's capacity for pain had anything to do with life's apportionment of agonies, Mr. Kimmelbro...

I have yet to see a genius or a hero who, if stuck with a burning match, would feel less pain than h...

People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief f...

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that existence exists, that nothing can alter the truth a...

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing...

No, you do not have to live as a man; it is an act of moral choice. But you cannot live as anything ...

She survived it. She was able to survive it, because she did not believe in suffering. She faced wit...

It’s not that I don’t suffer, it’s that I know the unimportance of suffering, I know that pain is to...

She found a dark satisfaction in pain—because that pain came from him.

I’m not capable of suffering completely. I never have. It goes only down to a certain point and then...

Other people's sorrows and joys have a way of reminding us of our own; we partly empathize with them...

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war...

I do not know, really, how we will survive without places like the Inner Gorge of the Grand Canyon t...

As more people have found the courage to break through shame and speak about woundedness in their li...

Getting in touch with the lovelessness within and letting that lovelessness speak its pain is one wa...

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon b...

Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but ...

True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abus...

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contem...

When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out wit...

And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?

The wind swept the snow aside, ever faster and thicker, as if it were trying to catch up with someth...

Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I love...

Pain lost it's power when other things became more important.Kahar didn't need a potion or an Aon to...

Cleaning the wound is often more painfulthan the cut itself.

Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important.