Pain Quotes

It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves...

Even the most innocent of men's affairs seem doomed to cause suffering. Pushing the lawnmower throug...

I have a new name for

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for...

Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.

When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accep...

The pain, I can assure you, will be exquisite.

Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time.

Pain's nothing. Pains what you give, not what you get.

Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of you...

Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of you...

He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat...

When you're a kid you have these notions about how things are going to be.... You get a little older...

No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is ...

All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in p...

You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want...

Rather than continuing on the normal sexual path toward pain, emptiness, and idolatry, you can allow...

No one is exempt and everyone's pain has a different smell. At night, when all the colours die,they ...

It was like something lurking in the darkness within him...There is remained in the darkness, the gr...

He could almost hear the wail of pain that went up from his heart. It was a sharp terrible personal ...

The measure of your faith is the measure of the pain you can endure.

Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to wh...

If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when yo...

Call me later, you’d said, so I could call you later, at night, and it is those nights I miss you, E...

I just want to be smart like other pepul so I can have lots of frends who like me.

By shutting out the real world we can live peacefully in ours. We know that a world without pain is ...

Suffering is only suffering if it's done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in vie...

My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's op...

I was aware that I was taking inordinate pleasure in small, technological events and objects, and th...

Let me put it this way: You cannot live in the world without being in pain, spiritual and physical p...

Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?""I give.""...

But he’d also gotten a personal prickly chill all over from his own thinking. He could do the dextra...

You decide. You be the judge. It says You are welcome regardless of severity. Severity is in the eye...

Something they seem to omit to mention in Boston AA when you're new and out of your skull with despe...

The silences after his last gasp were sung together by a blackbird. I lay there, my eyes unable to c...

Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed. Like Schrö...

Her stare was direct and unwavering, full of confidence earned from painful experience...

Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his pa...

I was the worst kind of fool. When I look back on that August night, changed forever by all my wound...

I knew that suffering can purify, that it's a kind of fire that can be worth enduring, but there wer...

Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows in perception if...

He would pray...for everyone who knew pain, which meant everyone who wore a human face.

Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting g...

If you think about something else hard enough, you can mostly control your feelings.

I will not dream anymore, you said. I will not set myself up for the pain. But then your team made t...

It's always better if they see. Then they don't imagine things. So I didn't imagine, I remembered.

The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.

I have been loved," she said, "by something strange, and it has forgotten me.

How much did she remember? I wondered, afire with humiliation yet unable to tear my eyes from her. I...

The thought of her gave me such a continual anguish that I could no more forget her than an aching t...

But it isn’t only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people....

As I was saying, that’s the dark secret of our time, no one mentions it, but every time one opens a ...

I was realizing something I should have known by using my intelligence, without ever having gone to ...

This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or s...

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the...

Where there is anger there is always pain underneath.

It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.

I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not be...

I do believe God gave me a spark of genius, but he quenched it in misery.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume ...

She was brave from excess of grief

The return to reality was as painful as the return to consciousness after taking an anesthetic

The mind, at length bereftOf thinking and its pain,Will soon disperse again,And nothing will remain:...

And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with youall through my life?-sharing my fire, my bed,Sharing-oh,...

We do not know the worth of one single drop of blood, one single tear.

When I came to this country in 1958, to be a dying patient in a medical hospital was a nightmare. Yo...

I think that modern medicine has become like a prophet offering a life free of pain. It is nonsense....

She then thought the land enchanted into everlasting brightness and happiness; she fancied, then, th...

The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We crea...

One by one, the thoughts and memories of sadness raised their hands, stood up to identify themselves...

Laugh, and the world laughs with you;Weep, and you weep alone;For the sad old earth must borrow its ...

Don't hold onto things, it will only bring you pain.

He's such a dragHe's not insaneIt's just that everybodyHas to feel his pain.

It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

Then dawns the Invisible; the Unseen its truth reveals;My outward sense is gone, my inward essence f...

And I pray one prayer--I repeat it till my tongue stiffens--Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as ...

If I can stop one heart from breaking,I shall not live in vain;If I can ease one life the aching,Or ...

There is a pain – so utter – It swallows substance up – Then covers the Abyss with Trance – So Memor...

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

After great pain, a formal feeling comes – The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs – The stiff Heart ...

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,And Mourners to and froKept treading – treading – till it seemedThat S...

When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which wa...

I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle I've been fighting so hard to have an educa...

In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can e...

The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.

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

I think you have more fun as a human being even though it is much more painful.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting ...

I dressed to their murmurs in the other room, their voices soft but strained, and I wondered if men ...

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain ...

So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little ...

Everyone understands the pain that accompanies death,but genuine pain doesn't live in the spirit,nor...

A light which lives on what the flames devour,a grey landscape surrounding me with scorch,a crucifix...

Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice

The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing f...

Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of n...

There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.

Nothing begins and nothing ends That is not paid with moan For we are born in others' pain And p...