Pain Quotes

• Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, While pain and guilt still linger here below, Blindness and numbness--these please me alone; Then do not wake me, keep your voices low.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Sleep
  • Guilt
  • Voices

• In explaining the growth of his faith, psychiatrist Gerald May writes, "I know that God is loving and that God’s loving is trustworthy. I know this directly, through the experience of my life. There have been plenty of times of doubt, especially when I used to believe that trusting God's goodness meant I would not be hurt. But having been hurt quite a bit, I know God's goodness goes deeper than all pleasure and pain it embraces them both."

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Faith
  • Goodness
  • God Is

• I'm fine." It's a lie. I am not fine. My head is a symphony of pain, a sadistic master maestro conducting an opus of excruciating, devastating perfecting.

  

  Kiersten White
  • Lying
  • Fine
  • Conducting

• Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you.

  

  Frank O'Hara
  • Bad
  • Pain
  • Logic

• Bankruptcy cleans out the system. What’s wrong with that? South Korea went through this in the late 1990s. They didn’t have anyone to bail them out, and they had to go through the pain. Sweden did it in the early 1990s. Mexico did it. Russia did it. The list goes on and on. Competent people take over the assets from incompetent people and rebuild from a solid base. Business has always been survival of the fittest and Darwinism at its best. After all, this is what capitalism is all about.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Bankruptcy
  • Darwinism
  • South Korea

• To the extent that our experience of suffering reminds us of what everyone else also endures, it serves as a powerful inspiration to practice compassion and avoid causing others pain. And to the extent that suffering awakens our empathy and causes us to connect with others, it serves as the basis of compassion and love.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Powerful

• We would die before you would feel pain.

  

  Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
  • Die
  • Pain
  • Feel

• You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Happiness
  • Childhood
  • Laughter

• It’s not about comparison, as my counselor used to say. My pain is my pain.

  

  Barbara O'Neal
  • Pain
  • Comparison

• I feel the blood rush to my face, fell that exquisite mixture of pain and pleasure that comes from being seen when you're vulnerable.

  

  Alison Pick
  • Pain
  • Pleasure
  • Vulnerable

• It is instilled in thousands of American males from an early age that one of their requirements is to be able to both dish out and take a lot of pain. They are taught the rules of this road in gyms, rings, backyards and fields all over America.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • America
  • Age
  • Gym

• Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Pain
  • Suffering
  • Optional

• Happiness not only needs no justification, but it is also the only final test of whether what I am doing is right for me. Only of course happiness is not the same as pleasure; it includes the pain of losing as well as the pleasure of finding.

  

  Marion Milner
  • Pain
  • Happiness
  • Pleasure

• In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Life
  • Light
  • Pain

• You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Long
  • Pain
  • Joy

• I have to welcome the pain like I welcome the joy.

  

  Bellamy Young
  • Pain
  • Joy
  • Welcome

• I'm so busy trying to breathe through the pain that I'm breathing through the pain of being with people, and that is no way to spend a life. Eventually, they'll just go away, because you will make them sad. That's something I've proven quite adept at doing over the years.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Adept

• Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe and powerful. Through your little fortress of lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. But the fortress needs walls, so you build some. These are the justifications for your lies. You know, like you are doing this to protect someone you love, to keep them from feeling pain. Whatever works, just so you feel okay about the lies.

  

  William P. Young
  • Running
  • Powerful
  • Wall

• There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Life
  • Guarantee
  • Surplus

• It's true we don't know what we've got until its gone, but we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Love
  • Pleasure
  • For Her

• With flowing tail and flying mane, Wide nostrils never stretched by pain, Mouth bloodless to bit or rein, And feet that iron never shod, And flanks unscar'd by spur or rod, A thousand horses - the wild - the free - Like waves that follow o'er the sea, Came thickly thundering on.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Waves
  • Horses
  • Tail

• I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.

  

  Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains
  • Thinking
  • Brain
  • Failing

• 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

• Take pains. Be perfect.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Perfect
  • Pain
  • Halloween

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