Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cassandra Clare

Pointless, needless suffering and pain? I don’t suppose it would help if I told you that was the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.

Cassandra Clare

She could ask for anything, she thought dizzily, anything--an end to pain or world hunger or disease, or for peace on earth. But then again, perhaps these things weren't in the power of angels to grant, or they would already have been granted. And perhaps people were supposed to find these things for themselves.

Cassandra Clare

My rapier wit hides my inner pain.

Caroline Rhea

When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.

Carly Simon

I haven't got time for the pain.

Cassandra Clare

I have a high pain threshold. In fact, it's more of a large and tastfully decorated foyer than a threshold. But I do get easily bored

Moby

Intellectually, human beings and animals may be different, but it's pretty obvious that animals have a rich emotional life and that they feel joy and pain. It's easy to forget the connection between a hamburger and the cow it came from. But I forced myself to acknowledge the fact that every time I ate a hamburger, a cow had ceased to breathe

Mike Royko

Strict gun laws are about as effective as strict drug laws...It pains me to say this, but the NRA seems to be right: The cities and states that have the toughest gun laws have the most murder and mayhem.

Miguel

There is no recollection which time does not put an end to, and no pain which death does not remove.

Kumi Naidoo

I think even though he [Nelson Mandela] was feted and praised as he was, he always was at pains to say, I'm a human being.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.

Kirsten Dunst

Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don't they realize that it's gross? I understand it's an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends do it.

Kimberly Elise

I am actually very in touch with all of my emotions, from joy to pain, and I am free with them.

Kathie Lee Gifford

I have empathy for the person who is being interviewed and written about with all kinds of misperceptions and misconceptions and flat-out lies. So I feel for them, I feel their pain. I know what that is like.

Kathleen Norris

In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are self-made

Karl Ove Knausgard

As your perspective of the world increases not only is the pain it inflicts on you less but also its meaning. Understanding the world requires you to take a certain distance from it.

Karl Marlantes

Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body

Judith Guest

Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can’t feel pain, you aren’t gonna feel anything else, either.

P. D. James

Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.

Ozzy Osbourne

Condemned to violence, arrested by pain. Inside the soul lies a man insane.

Ovid

With patience bear what pains you have deserved, Grieve, if you will, over what's unmerited.

Ovid

Suppressed pain chokes us; in our breasts It surges, adding ever to its strength.

Ovid

I am an exile; but it is the fault that pains; The punishment is nought; that it is deserved Is all the pain.

Ovid

There is some joy in weeping. For our tears Fill up the cup, then wash our pain away.

Ovid

Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.

Paul Feig

Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional W.W.F. wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and that they're going to destroy their opponent. Then they get hit once and fall down and roll around in agony and suddenly seem immobilized by pain, calling for the ref to intervene.

Matthew Fox

The only way to learn compassion is through your heart; you have to back up and pass through your own pain.

Matthew Fox

We must work on our souls, enlarging and expanding them. We do so by experiencing all of life-the beauty and the joy as well as the grief and pain. Soul work requires paying attention to life, to the laughter and the sorrow, the enlightening and the frightening, the inspiring and the silly.

Matt Groening

I'm not going to stop torturing myself till I figure out the cause of my pain.

Matt Groening

If at first you don't succeed - give it up. It isn't worth the pain.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.

Marya Hornbacher

At times it may seem worse - harder, at least - to live through the despair of this loss without the temporary comfort of our addictive behaviour. We cannot drown our sorrows. We must face the fact that we don’t know, really, where we are, how we got here, how long the pain will last, or how to move past it. That uncertainty may be the most painful part of not knowing a God: no one is there to reassure us that a God will take the pain and confusion away. We simply don’t know. And we have no way to numb ourselves or to forget the condition we’re in.

Marya Hornbacher

In truth, you like the pain. You like it because you believe you deserve it.