Pain Quotes
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I wouldn't say that cutting was pleasurable, but there is a sense of euphoria that follows cutting yourself. The quick pinch of pain and the sight of blood snaps you back to the surface and you start to appreciate being alive.
Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
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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
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Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.
A. S. Byatt
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Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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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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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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I've been in pain hope it doesn't show I've been insane well the time is slow
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
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Learn the lesson of your pain
Gary Null
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When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human, that pain is to be endured and fades, if it fades, only with time, then God became nothing to me but a dyslexic dog, with neither bark nor bite.
Yann Martel
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The Republican Party, as much as it pains me to say this, should be ashamed of themselves.
David Stockman
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Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain.
Bartholomew
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The hook-nosed teacher looked past Quirrell’s turban straight into Harry’s eyes — and a sharp, hot pain shot across the scar on Harry’s forehead.
Joanne Rowling
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
Seneca the Younger
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To be close to your greatest desire could be an exquisite pain
Conn Iggulden
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Satan can imitate God, but he cannot duplicate Him - God is the only One who can deliver us from our pain and suffering.
David Jeremiah
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Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin, there is no other truth to tell.
Elena Ferrante
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When I look back on my marriages, or the breakups, sure I know the pain I went through, but that's part of life and it has its own value.
Rita Hayworth
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Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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It started off with flu-like symptoms and pain; then, I started feeling really funny. In two weeks, I was paralyzed from the waist down, and it spiraled down from there. Every ability I had was slowly slipping away.
Victoria Arlen
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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
William Hazlitt
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"...The large majority of those infectious microbes that cause us so much illness and pain are ANAEROBIC...a big word that means they live and proliferate best in environments where there is LITTLE OR NO OXYGEN."
Ed McCabe
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Pain reconciles one to existence. Infinite resignation is that shirt in the old fable. The thread is spun with tears, bleached by tears, the shirt sewn in tears, but then it also gives better protection than iron. The secret in life is that everyone must sew it for himself.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.
Hayao Miyazaki
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I always say writing a play is like toothache: I find it incredibly painful, and it's only once the play's out that the pain is gone.
Abi Morgan