Pain Quotes

• I like characters who have two different things going on, whether it is Robin from 'Top Of The Lake' having that strength juxtaposed with the vulnerability and being in pain, or whether it is Peggy from 'Mad Men' with her naivety and her sort of idiocy at times, combined with her intelligence and courage really to do what she did at that time.

  

  Elisabeth Moss
  • Time
  • Men
  • Different

• But the people who took the bus didn't experience the city as we experienced the city. The pain made the city more beautiful. The story made us different characters than we would have been if we had skipped the story and showed up at the ending an easier way.

  

  Donald Miller
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Pain is part of how I get inspiration and part of how I gain wisdom on life. I guess the point I'm trying to make is that I don't transform it, I just let it be. I kind of let it move through me, let it consume me and I let it take me over and hurt me, and I let it go away when it's ready to go away and I understand that it's just part of the process.

  

  Brett Dennen
  • Wisdom
  • Hurt
  • Inspiration

• The cure for the pain is in the pain.

  

  Rumi
  • Pain
  • Cure

• I think with all the odd jobs I ever had, there was some kind of enlightenment but, yes, a lot of pain and suffering that I don't want to re-live.

  

  David Boreanaz
  • Live
  • Suffering
  • Enlightenment

• You have someone in your life whom you honor and revere so much that every hurt on them is inflicted on you as well. And the closer they are to you, the greater the pain.

  

  Masashi Kishimoto
  • Hurt
  • Honor
  • Wells

• Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

  

  Max Eastman
  • Pain

• I realized then what I had known since I was a child watching my mother die of cancer-namely, that beyond ideology and ambition, beyond thought and emotion, there was only pain. And salvation from it.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Mother
  • Die
  • Cancer

• We either misdirect or depress great amounts of energy in order to keep ourselves from feeling pain, including what we feel in the moment and being who we are in the moment.

  

  Barbara Brennan
  • Energy
  • Pain
  • Misdirect

• To die with glory, if one has to die at all, is still, I think, pain for the dier.

  

  Euripides
  • Die
  • Pain
  • Glory

• Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain!

  

  William Blake
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Wonderful Things

• Only the insane equate pain with success.

  

  American McGee
  • Success
  • Pain
  • Equate

• The thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • Pain

• 'Don’t be sentimental,' he chided. 'Memories aren’t enough.'It was fruitless to argue the niceties of that: he was telling her that he was in pain; he didn’t want platitudes or metaphysics.

  

  Clive Barker
  • Pain
  • Memories

• Scars are proof of survival, they shouldn’t be hidden—it’s a story someone may need to see in order to believe that beyond their pain and suffering, there is healing.

  

  Bernice L. McFadden
  • Believe
  • Suffering
  • Scars

• I think of myself as a fairly decent human being and it gives me great pain to be considered for all the mean S.O.B.s that come along. I've played bird decapitators, puppy stranglers, woman beaters, wife poisoners, child molesters - every goddamn thing you can think of. It was quite scene there for a while. But I think the image is changing...I hope to God the old image is fading from people's minds.

  

  George C. Scott
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Wife

• Consciousness and Healing To proceed very far through the desert, you must be willing to meet existential suffering and work it through. In order to do this, the attitude toward pain has to change. This happens when we accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Work
  • Suffering
  • Spiritual

• Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Fear
  • Sorrow
  • Causes

• And I don’t even like you, but the pain of life without you is biting.

  

  Coco J. Ginger
  • Pain
  • Biting

• Rather the pain of discipline than the pain of regret.

  

  Bob Andrews Brinsley Schwarz
  • Positive
  • Regret
  • Strength

• There was a whole, sprawling world underneath us, filled with ugly, vicious, beautiful people. The line between the two places was thin, hardly a separation, and both ran on pain and blood and fear and death and joy and music. But for now, the sunset was enough.

  

  Brenna Yovanoff
  • Music
  • Death
  • Sunset

• For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.

  

  Francis Thompson
  • Pain

• I don't think it's different to be a black girl in England than it is to be a black girl from America. We all collectively share in a pain of displacement and not feeling like we quite belong in places.

  

  Cynthia Erivo
  • Different
  • America
  • Black

• I think people sleepwalk through their lives, and for me, I wanted to embrace everything. And that meant the agonizing pain and the transcendence, and you can't have one without the other.

  

  Aisha Tyler
  • People
  • Pain

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