Pain Quotes

Jubal had a frame Fashioned to finer senses, which became A yearning for some hidden soul of things, Some outward touch complete on inner springs That vaguely moving bred a lonely pain, A want that did but stronger grow with gain Of all good else, as spirits might be sad For lack of speech to tell us they are glad.

George Eliot
- Good
- Soul
- Moving
Art is only a way of expressing pain.

John Lennon The Beatles
- Art
- Way
- Pain

Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.

Gene Tierney
- History
- Pain
No. The universe has to move forward. Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love. Whether it's a world, or a relationship... Everything has its time. And everything ends.

Elisabeth Sladen
- Time
- Universe
- Happiness
In rare moments of deep play, we can lay aside our sense of self, shed time's continuum, ignore pain, and sit quietly in the absolute present, watching the world's ordinary miracles. No mind or heart hobbles. No analyzing or explaining. No questing for logic. No promises. No goals. No relationships. No worry. One is completely open to whatever drama may unfold.

Diane Ackerman
- Heart
- Fun
- Worry
Granted that any practice causes more pain to animals than it gives pleasure to man; is that practice moral or immoral? And if, exactly in proportion as human beings raise their heads out of the slough of selfishness, they do not with one voice answer 'immoral,' let the morality of the principle of utility be for ever condemned.

John Stuart Mill
- Pain
- Practice
- Moral
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Haruki Murakami
- Pain
- Suffering
I think that, very often there's a pain that's just too painful to touch. You'll break apart. And I think her mother's death and disappearance and abandonment was something she just never could deal with. Eleanor Roosevelt, when she's really very unwell in 1936, she takes to her bed. She has a mysterious flu.

Blanche Wiesen Cook
- Death
- Deal
- Disappearance