E. L. James Quotes

There's a very fine line between pleasure and pain. They are two sides of the same coin, one not existing without the other.

E. L. James

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• Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

  

  Ovid
  • Good
  • Pain
  • Strength

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

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Pain
  • Diverse

• I remember as a kid watching one of the Olympic games, and I was cheering for a big track athlete. He was the favorite to win, and he lost. I realized in that moment the pain he felt was so much greater than the pain that those who never thought they were going to win would have felt had they lost.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Remember
  • Lost
  • Pain

• Our pain is a part of who we authentically are.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Pain
  • Part
  • Who

• I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.

  

  Karen O
  • Pain
  • End
  • Promise

• I have shed many tears of pain and indignation.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Pain
  • Tears
  • Many

• You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Fear
  • Pain

• Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Pain
  • Forever
  • Quitting

• I have this soft spot for have-nots. So, I was really inclined to portray their pain and pathos in 'Highway.'

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Pain
  • Really
  • Highway

• Mum says that, since I was a tiny baby, I've had the most strong-willed and stubborn personality known to man. Although that was a real pain for her, she admired my resolve.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Real
  • She
  • Man

• We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Life
  • Control
  • Pain

• My purpose is far greater than my pain.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Pain
  • Purpose
  • Far

• The protests and pain over the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown had me wondering if we can ever experience the world as others do. For no matter how disputed the circumstances of both cases, many people see what happened in black and white.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • People
  • World
  • Experience

• The stroke has given me another way to serve people. It lets me feel more deeply the pain of others; to help them know by example that ultimately, whatever happens, no harm can come. 'Death is perfectly safe,' I like to say.

  

  Ram Dass
  • People
  • Help
  • Death

• Ted Cruz, who uses phrases like 'carpet-bombing' the people of ISIS and who said, after the incidents in Paris, that we need a war president, is using fear mongering and hate speech. As a citizen of the world, I'm very concerned that this kind of behavior is being cheered on by anyone. It only brings more pain and suffering.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • World
  • War

• Pain is good, I'd say, when it's incidental to Love. In 'I give up my life for my friend' it is my friend, not my death, that matters. And sometimes I needn't give up my life for him, I can live for him, and with him, and the power of the spirit is then equally manifested, I should think.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• The very word 'sorrow' colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Pain

• O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray,To come to me: of cureless ills thou artThe one physician. Pain lays not its touchUpon a corpse.

  

  Aeschylus
  • Death
  • Pain

• Anyway, you learn a healthy respect for war, and I'm not happy with what's going on today. Uh, you know, our sterling President-um, I shouldn't get into this. Everybody's gonna kill me, but I'm not happy with him. I-I-if he had ever been in a war, he wouldn't have been so happy...so eager to send other people into war.

  

  James Garner
  • People
  • War
  • Happy

• The Dorm Room Diet is nothing like the conventional diets you may have tried in the past. It offers guidelines for creating a healthy lifestyle on your own, without the daunting restrictions of a quick-fix diet.

  

  Daphne Oz
  • May
  • Past

• It is typical of Schumann's musical thinking to construct this complex network of references outside his music-to quote Beethoven, and then to have Beethoven's distant beloved refer to Clara. But this should give a clue to the nature of Schumann's achievement. It is not Schumann's music that, refers to Clara but Beethoven's melody, the 'secret tone.'

  

  Charles Rosen
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Nature

• The biggest chance you can take in life is by not taking any chances at all. It's important, but music is my heart and this is what makes me the most revenue, so be grit, don't quit.

  

  Earl Stevens
  • Life
  • Music
  • Important

• We all drink from one water We all breathe from one air We rise from one ocean And we live under one sky.

  

  Anwar Fazal
  • Live
  • Breathe
  • Drink

• There's a very fine line between pleasure and pain. They are two sides of the same coin, one not existing without the other.

  

  E. L. James
  • Pain
  • Coins
  • Two Sides