Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Hansel

I believe that pain and suffering can either be a prison or a prism.

Tim Hansel

Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.

Robert A. Heinlein

Of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to, every time. If it pains them to make a choice - if the choice looks like a 'sacrifice' - you can be sure that it is no nobler than the discomfort caused by greediness... the necessity of deciding between two things you want when you can't have both.

Robert A. Heinlein

Pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens our survival.

Robert A. Heinlein

Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain... The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself--ultimate cost for perfect value

Sophie Anderton

The amount of painkillers I was given. Every time I had a pain in my leg I got used to numbing it out.

Sonya Walger

Lost' holds a very special place in people's hearts and I wouldn't presume to say that 'FlashForward' will replace 'Lost.' I think it provides a lot of the same adrenaline and fascination and entertainment. It will help ease the pain of losing 'Lost!' I think it will appeal to the very same audience.

Sonya Hartnett

I thought about how stupid it is, that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else, though desire brings with it such disappointment and pain. Humankind's history must be scored bloody with heartbreak. This hankering for affection is a blight upon us.

Ross Perot

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Rosie O'Donnell

I'd always admired writers. I'd always loved words on a page. Somehow, words seemed to bypass image and get straight to the heart of things. Somehow, words seemed big enough to contain pain, and sentences could pull broken bits together.

Ron Kovic

We who have witnessed the obscenity of war and experienced its horror and terrible consequences have an obligation to rise above our pain and suffering and turn the tragedy of our lives into a triumph.

Roger Daltrey

My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days.

Rush Limbaugh

I understand the pain of withdrawal, too. I wouldn't want that on anybody.

Rush Limbaugh

You know I have always tried to be honest with you and open about my life, so I need to tell you that part of what you have heard and read is correct. I am addicted to prescription pain medication.

Rush Limbaugh

I am addicted to prescription pain medication.

Thomas Malory

The sweetness of love is short-lived, but the pain endures.

Thomas Malory

Always Sir Arthur lost so much blood that it was a marvel he stood on his feet, but he was so full of knighthood that knightly he endured the pain.

Thomas Merton

As long as we are on earth, the love that unites us will bring us suffering by our very contact with one another, because this love is the resetting of a body of broken bones. Even saints cannot live with saints on this earth without some anguish. There are two things which men can do about the pain of disunion with other men. They can love or they can hate.

Thomas Carlyle

Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.

Tom Wolfe

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.

Steven Erikson

It is an extraordinary act of courage,' said Tulas Shorn, 'to come to know a stranger's pain.

Steven Erikson

Betrayal was the greatest of all crimes, for it took all that was human within a person and made it a thing of pain. In the face of that, murder itself was surcease: it was quick, and it ended the anguish and despair of a life without hope.

Steve McNair

I actually enjoy the pain. That's what gives me the fire inside to get up and keep going.

Steve Martin

It was easier to sell a painting that was not for sale.

Steve Martin

It's pain that changes our lives.

Steve Berry

If you want to live your whole life free from pain,you must either be a god or a corpse.

Stephen King

How to Draw a Picture (XII) Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.

I pay my own bills. I feel my own pain.

Romany Malco

When faced with emotional pain, I become still for hours, sometimes days, doing absolutely nothing. It helps me get to the truest source of my suffering.

Romany Malco

More times than not, my pain stems from an area in which I've been least authentic. The second I identify the source - the area of my inauthenticity - I begin to feel better. This allows me to take complete responsibility for my emotional discomfort, and the awareness enables me to move beyond the blockage. I become energetically unstuck, allowing the pain to pass through me.

Romany Malco

Pain is inevitable. It is actually a great opportunity for growth, but when we blame or fail to take responsibility for our suffering, the pain becomes stagnant, and stagnant pain can have a compounding effect if left unchecked.

Roger Federer

What I think I've been able to do well over the years is play with pain, play with problems, play in all sorts of conditions.

Saadi

All human beings are limbs of the same body. God created them from the same essence. If one part of the body suffers pain, then the whole body is affected. If you are indifferent to this pain, you cannot be called a human being.