Quotes about pain
pain suffering withdrawal
We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure. Sydney J. Harris
pain weekend years
I keep trying to tell people. I said, at 40, 45, you're at that crossroads. You really are there. And it's not like you can have gain without pain, but this is it. The days are - like when I wrote this whole thing about, in the beginning of my first magazine. I said, "If you live to be 75 years old, that's 3,900 weekends. That's it." Sylvester Stallone
pain crowds pleasure
If you're willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it's, you know, the pleasure will be worth the pain. Sylvester Stallone
pain fire anxiety
It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful. Sylvester Stallone
pain law mind
When pain has been constant, it has its own momentum and laws. The vital thing is to break its ascendancy over the mind. Suzanne Massie
pain giving perfect
Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to! Susan Sontag
pain taken people
No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain. Susan Sontag
pain emotional tough
Emotional pain makes me want to isolate. Or hit back. It's very tough to rise above my natural inclinations. I'm always working on this. Taylor Dane
pain fire waiting
Dess shook her head. "Before he walked off, Rex said for you to wait. He said it's totally important you don't touch Angie until he comes back. and he said that if you were a pain about it, I get to hit you with that." She pointed to where the darkling had flung Flabbergasted Supernumerary Mathematician, its tip blackened by ichor and fire. "So, go ahead. Scott Westerfeld
pain lasts
Nothing lasts-not even pain. Ray Stannard Baker
pain philosophy writing
Did you think you could have the good without the evil? Did you think you could have the joy without the sorrow? . . . . I have been thinking much about pain. How could I help it? . . . . Sooner or later, regardless of the wit of man, we have pain to face; a reality; a final inescapable, immutable fact of life. What poor souls, if we have then no philosophy to face it with! This pain will not last; it never has lasted. I'll think about what I am going to write tomorrow-not about me, not about my body. Ray Stannard Baker
pain long-ago serenity
There must be a technique for meeting pain. There must be a technique of endurance based on the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity, as Marcus Aurelius taught long ago. Ray Stannard Baker
pain littles each-day
Each day it's like: 'How many more days am I going to feel young and vibrant? I feel young and vibrant now, but I also feel the aches and pains a little bit. Ray Romano
pain smart talking
If you're ever making a television show, don't cast smart actors because they are just a pain in the ass. The moment you start to bullshit them you've lost them, so you have to either know what you're talking about or when you don't talk to them. Ray McKinnon
pain people skins
From my experience and observing a lot of other people that often times that only happens - a transformational experience or shedding of the skin - happens when we are at the end of our road and there is pain involved. We have to change or we continue to live in that almost intolerable pain. Ray McKinnon
pain long matter
Pain is only temporary, no matter how long it lasts. Ray Lewis
pain way defeat
The only way to defeat pain is to recognize pain exists. Ray Lewis
pain philosophy men
Plastic man got no brain, plastic man don't feel no pain. Ray Davies
pain writing way
There's no better way to process pain than to write. Rashida Jones
pain laughter thinking
I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain. Rashida Jones
pain suffering delight
Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay. Raoul Vaneigem
pain pleasure
Pleasure is always something apposed to pain it is never separate from pain Rajneesh
pain attachment essentials
Remember remain alert that you don't get too much attached to the accidental - and all is accidental except your consciousness. Except your awareness, all is accidental. Pain and pleasure, success and failure, fame and defamation - all is accidental. Only your witnessing consciousness is essential. Stick to it! Get more and more rooted in it. And don't spread your attachment to worldly things. Rajneesh
pain blessed health
I duly acknowledge that I have gone through a long life, with fewer circumstances of affliction than are the lot of most men. Uninterrupted health, a competence for every reasonable want, usefulness to my fellow-citizens, a good portion of their esteem, no complaint against the world which has sufficiently honored me, and above all, a family which has blessed me by their affections, and never by their conduct given me a moment's pain. Thomas Jefferson
pain giving mind
Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want. Thomas Jefferson
pain lying giving
I am not afraid of the priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries, of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering, without being able to give me one moment of pain. Thomas Jefferson
pain age moments
I do not agree that an age of pleasure is no compensation for a moment of pain. Thomas Jefferson
pain political-opinions hatred
It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions. Thomas Jefferson
pain fear self-esteem
How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. Thomas Jefferson
pain ambition men
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. Thomas Jefferson
pain pride evil
1.Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. 2.Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3.Never spend your money before you have it. 4.Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you. 5.Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold. 6.We never repent of having eaten too little. 7.Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. 8.How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened. 9.Take things always by their smooth handle. 10.When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, a hundred. Thomas Jefferson
pain real believe
The belief that happiness has to be deserved has led to centuries of pain, guilt, and deception. So firmly have we clung to this single, illusory belief that we've almost forgotten the real truth about happiness. So busy are we trying to deserve happiness that we no longer have much time for ideas such as: Happiness is natural, happiness is a birthright, happiness is free, happiness is a choice, happiness is within, and happiness is being. The moment you believe that happiness has to be deserved, you must toil forevermore. Robert Holden
pain men littles
If little labour, little are our gains: Man's fortunes are according to his pains. Robert Herrick