Quotes about pain
pain attachment duty
It is better to proceed with one's duty in the service of others than wallow in the pain attachments bring Robyn Davidson
pain blood excess
Well: the day is a poem but too much Like one of Jeffers's, crusted with blood and barbaric omens Painful to excess, inhuman as a hawk's cry. Robinson Jeffers
pain used happened
I'll never get used to living without Mo, but the painful things that surround what happened to him aren't so painful any more-not so raw or so new. Robin Gibb
pain mind-your-own-business not-sure
Fitz: How bad is it? Nighteyes: Mind your own business. Fitz: You ARE my business. Nighteyes: Sharing pain doesn’t loosen it. Fitz: I’m not sure about THAT. Robin Hobb
pain why-not anticipation
Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?
pain lying play
I have learned that in a long life we all eventually play the part of the betrayed, and we all eventually play the part of the betrayer, and neither is pleasant because both roles involve pain, inflicting or absorbing it. Robert Wagner
pain believe giving
Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage-and give exceedingly thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still-the veil that hides you from the infinite, which makes it possible for you to believe in what you cannot see. Robert Nathan
pain attitude struggle
There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain. Robert Rauschenberg
pain recovery past
Bourne concentrated on rest and mobility. From somewhere in his forgotten past he understood that recovery depended upon both and he applied rigid discipline to both. Robert Ludlum
pain emotional people
I am an emotional plagiarist, stealing other people's pain, subsuming it into my own until I can't remember whose it is any more. Sarah Kane
pain broken soul
My soul is a broken field, plowed by pain. Sara Teasdale
pain sorrow half
Social sorrow loses half its pain. Samuel Johnson
pain fall reflection
Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religions hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection must plunge him deeper and deeper.
pain men suffering
Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men Virgil
pain together tears
For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob. Virginia Woolf
pain saving wonderful
Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain! William Blake
pain real comedy
The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain. Wendy Wasserstein
pain thinking bird
The trees are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don’t think they sing. They just screech in pain. …Taking a close look at what’s around us, there is some sort of harmony: it’s the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder. Werner Herzog
pain fighting thinking
I don't see [the jungle] so much erotic. I see it more full of obscenity. It's just - Nature here is vile and base. I wouldn't see anything erotical here. I would see fornication and asphyxiation and choking and fighting for survival and growing and just rotting away. Of course, there's a lot of misery. But it is the same misery that is all around us. The trees here are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don't think they sing. They just screech in pain.
pain believe animal
We believe in the Three Rs - reducing the consumption of meat and other animal-based foods; refining the diet by eating products only from methods of production, transport, and slaughter that minimize pain and distress; and replacing meat and other animal-based foods in the diet with plant-based foods. Wayne Pacelle
pain men earth
There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you. Walker Percy
pain children women
Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain. Samuel Richardson
pain dresses hanging-out
A fop takes great pains to hang out a sign, by his dress, of what he has within.
pain divorce thinking
Anyone who gets divorced goes through a lot of pain ... I don't think I want to get married again. Ryan Reynolds
pain grief suffering
The habit-forming pain, Mismanagement and grief: We must suffer them all again. W. H. Auden
pain saving painful
Saving was slow and painful. William Christopher Handy
pain men animal
And in that hour, The seeds of cruelty, that since have swell'd To such gigantic and enormous growth, Were sown in human nature's fruitful soil. Hence date the persecution and the pain That man inflicts on all inferior kinds, Regardless of their plaints. William Cowper
pain vices virtue
Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
pain men self
I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.
pain brain doubt
They fix attention, heedless of your pain, With oaths like rivets forced into the brain; And e'en when sober truth prevails throughout, They swear it, till affirmance breeds a doubt.
pain poetry poetic
There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
pain people world
Some people, they don't want to be that loved, they don't want to be that involved, they don't want to be part of your family. That's where the pain comes in. You want the world to be what you want it to be, and sometimes the world doesn't want that. Wayne Coyne
pain suffering accepting
I'll accept the pain and the suffering, because I know that in that there's a lot of beauty, too.