Pain Quotes

• I'll play a happy character, but most characters are driven by a pain or a fear. They are driven by something deep down, and most people are like that in the sense. And so, that's what interests me.

  

  Emory Cohen
  • People
  • Character
  • Happy

• Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it requires discipline to change our bad habits that cause pain to animals.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Important
  • Bad
  • Change

• A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it.

  

  Lindsay Wagner
  • People
  • True
  • High

• To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain.

  

  Edward Young
  • Pain
  • Smile

• Our concerns sink into insignificance when compared with the eternal value of human personality - a potential child of God which is destined to triumph over lie, pain, and death. No one can take this sublime meaning of life away from us, and this is the one thing that matters.

  

  Igor Sikorsky
  • Life
  • God
  • Children

• They said if I could deal with the pain, I should play. So, I did, and for some reason, I started hitting. It was a weird thing. I don't know if it was because I couldn't do too much, and I was just trying to stay up through the middle and not hurt myself.

  

  Freddie Freeman
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Hurt

• Imagine, for example, birds. When they look out at the world, they have a sense that they are alive. If they are in pain, they can do something about it. If they have hunger or thirst, they can satisfy that. It's this basic feeling that there is life ticking away inside of you.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Life
  • World
  • Feeling

• I'll never get used to living without Mo, but the painful things that surround what happened to him aren't so painful any more - not so raw or so new.

  

  Robin Gibb Bee Gees
  • Used
  • Painful
  • Surround

• I like writing, and I enjoy it. It's painful. You can't get around the pain of writing. I'm still trying to balance on what I think is my creative habit. It varies, but I do know that I need to continue. It helps me with my acting, and the writing helps me be invested in a different way.

  

  Gbenga Akinnagbe
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Trying

• My purpose is far greater than my pain.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Pain
  • Purpose
  • Far

• Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease.

  

  Keith Miller
  • Work
  • Reality
  • Christian

• I made 'Prozac Nation' necessary reading because I write necessarily. I tell my story because it is about everyone else: in 1993, people took pills to relieve the pain just like they do now, but it scared them; it doesn't any more, because talk is not cheap at all - it is tender.

  

  Elizabeth Wurtzel
  • People
  • Reading
  • Pain

• Monk's music is often defined as enigmatic, eccentric and humorous - as if it had little to do with the pain he may have endured to create his art. But I believe Monk routinely shared his history with his audience, no matter how unpalatable that history was, and it is for that very reason that his music connects with people around the globe.

  

  Jason Moran
  • People
  • Music
  • Believe

• Forgiving is not forgetting. Forgiving is remembering without pain.

  

  Celia Cruz
  • Women
  • Remember
  • Forget

• It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Pain
  • Imagination
  • Pleasures

• Making children cry for a photographer can be considered mean. But I would say that making children laugh and show off their jeans for an apparel ad is just as exploitative and less natural. Toddlers' natural state, like, 30 percent of the time, is crying, and it doesn't indicate pain or suffering.

  

  Jill Greenberg
  • Time
  • Children
  • Suffering

• The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Pain
  • Suffering
  • Mental

• 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

• The pain is always bringing me a lesson. If I listen to the lesson when the pain is manageable, the pain won't get gargantuan and flatten me entirely, because I will have received the message at the center. I receive it as gently as I can, because the cruelest thing that I do to myself is try to push myself through an experience.

  

  Bellamy Young
  • Experience
  • Lesson
  • Center

• You are a perfect balance of heaven and hell, a purgatory of passion and pain.

  

  Jessica Katoff
  • Passion
  • Heaven
  • Balance

• If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

  

  Jim Carrey
  • Pain
  • Regret

• I think I'd like to be able to heal people's pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever.

  

  Brandi Chastain
  • People
  • Pain

• I wrote to make sense out of all the contradictions I experienced and to deal with the pain and loss I was undergoing.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Pain
  • Deal
  • Contradictions

• The world over - 50 million children start playing tennis, 5 million learn to play tennis, 500,000 learn professional tennis, 50,000 come to the circuit, 5000 reach the grand slam, 50 reach Wimbledon, 4 to semi final, 2 to the finals, when I was holding a cup I never asked GOD 'Why me?'. And today in pain I should not be asking GOD 'Why me?'

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • World
  • God
  • Children

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