Pain Quotes

O, Woman! in our hours of ease,Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,And variable as the shadeBy the light quivering aspen made;When pain and anguish wring the brow,A ministering angel thou!

Walter Scott
- Light
- Pain
- Angel
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

Barbara Kingsolver
- War
- Lost
- Spiritual

I broke my heart for every gain, to taste the sweet I faced the pain.

Whitney Houston
Compassion is to look beyond your own pain, to see the pain of others.

Yasmin Mogahed
- Pain
- Looks
- Compassion
... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.

Albert Camus
- Pain
- Need
- Anticipation
Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

Aristotle
Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends, rain and pain mature into triumph or surrender. That's one reason the race-day crowds matter, the friends who come to cheer and stomp and flap their signs and push the runners on.

Nancy Gibbs
- Friends
- Lost
- Training
Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain.

Federico Fellini
- Time
- Death
- Law