Pain Quotes
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Every discord is a harmony not understood. Happiness is a disease, and pain, a medicine.
Narayanananda Swami
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It is our duty never to speak ill of others, you know; least of all when we know that to do so will be the cause of much pain and trouble.
George Gissing
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The greatest gift . . . is the realization that life does not consist either of wallowing in the past or of peering anxiously at the future; and it is appalling to contemplate the great number of often painful steps by which one arrives at a truth so old, so obvious, and so frequently expressed. It is good for one to appreciate that life is now. Whatever it offers, little or much, life is now-this day-this hour.
Charles Macomb Flandrau
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I am the captain of my pain.
Nick Cave
The Birthday Party
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You have a great heart, but will only find it to be so through great pain. This is the wisdom of love, and its doubtful gift. . . . I have endured much suffering and still remain unbitter and unclosed.
Alison Croggon
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Unlike the weak, the strong neither give up nor are driven by pain into rash or stupid behavior. They don't like pain any more than anyone else, but they are not willing to settle for short-term relief if it means reducing their options later. They don't rob Peter to pay Paul, they face reality now.
William Glasser
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Having a biological system that keeps pumping out stress hormones to deal with real or imagined threats leads to physical problems: sleep disturbances, headaches, unexplained pain, oversensitivity to touch or sound. Being so agitated or shut down keeps them from being able to focus their attention and concentration. To relieve their tension, they engage in chronic masturbation, rocking, or self-harming activities (biting, cutting, burning, and hitting themselves, pulling their hair out, picking at their skin until it bled). It also leads to difficulties with language processing and fine-motor coordination. Spending all their energy on staying in control, they usually have trouble paying attention to things, like schoolwork, that are not directly relevant to survival, and their hyperarousal makes them easily distracted.
Bessel van der Kolk
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The book and the film This Changes Everything fed into each other in ways that were compounding and very exciting. The pain was shared.
Avi Lewis
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In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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You were given that pain and that vision because you have something to do with it.
Sandra Cisneros
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No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope that forgiveness brings will always be worth the effort.
Boyd K. Packer
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I figured out that letting ‘the world’ hurt me served a few functions extremely well: It provided me with a kind of nurturing I didn’t otherwise know how to attract, I couldn’t be pinned with total responsibility, and it provided physical pain, a reason to cry that others could understand. So much easier than trying to explain all the accumulated rage and numbness and sadness.
Ben Sherwood
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In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain.
Theresa May
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Pain itself can be pleasurable accidentally in so far as it is accompanied by wonder, as in stage – plays; or in so far as it recalls a beloved object to one's memory, and makes one feel one's love for the thing, whose absence gives us pain. Consequently, since love is pleasant, both pain and whatever else results from love, in so far as they remind us of our love, are pleasant.
Thomas Aquinas
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If you want to live your whole life free from pain,you must either be a god or a corpse.
Steve Berry
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A man of no religion, who dares use pain as a weapon, tainting it for mundane things.
Aliette de Bodard
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Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for.
Marianne Williamson
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Endless brooding over a question undermines you as much as a dull pain.
Emil Cioran
