Quotes about pain
pain real ambition
Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for real worth, and to vindicate their manhood in our eyes. This conspicuous chair is their compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson
pain fall suffering
What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the most slippery sliding surfaces. We fall soft on a thought.
pain grief reality
There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.
pain soul world
There the great Planter plants Of fruitful worlds the grain, And with a million spells enchants The souls that walk in pain.
pain suffering lessons
Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.
pain sensations felt
For a sensation to be felt as pain is for it to be pain Saul Kripke
pain body four
After four knee surgeries and hundreds of shots injected into my knee weekly to alleviate swelling and pain, my body is begging me to stop the pounding. Li Na
pain laughter struggle
Trying to figure things out was my gig. Without the human condition, there's no struggle, no pain and that means no laughter. Lenny Bruce
pain believe white
It pains me to see my old company, which has meant so much to America, on the ropes. But Chrysler has been in trouble before, and we got through it, and I believe they can do it again. [...] Let's face it, if your car breaks down, you're not going to take it to the White House to get fixed. But, if your company breaks down, you've got to go to the experts on the ground, not the bureaucrats. Lee Iacocca
pain walking-dead going-away
The pain doesn't go away, you just make room for it. Laurie Holden
pain stronger battle
Can't escape pain, kiddo. Battle through it and you get stronger. Laurie Halse Anderson
pain hate thinking
Think about love, or hate, or joy, or pain- whatever makes you feel something, makes your palms sweat, or your toes curl. Focus on that feeling. When people don't express themselves, they die on piece at a time.
pain wish my-family
I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise. LaToya Jackson
pain lying men
How does life become totally painful By total retreat. Total noninspection becomes total pain.But existence is basically composed of a very few truths onto which have hung a great many artificialities and which man has adorned with enormous numbers of lies. And man is prisoner of his own shadows. Now one of the things you can do with man is to get him to look up and find out that he can look through the shadows and look at the shadows and find out what they are. L. Ron Hubbard
pain games play
Despite the amount of suffering, pain, misery, sorrow and travail which can exist in life, the reason for existence is the same reason as one has to play a game-interest, contest, activity and possession. The truth of this assertion is established by an observation of the elements of games and then applying these elements to life itself.
pain fire doe
The fire of hell is called eternal, only because it never ends. Still, there is change in the pains of the lost...Hence in hell true eternity does not exist, but rather time. Thomas Aquinas
pain fire hell
The same fire" (which he decides to be material) " torments the damned in hell and the just in purgatory...The least pain in purgatory exceeds the greatest in this life.
pain memories love-is
Pain itself can be pleasurable accidentally in so far as it is accompanied by wonder, as in stage-plays; or in so far as it recalls a beloved object to one's memory, and makes one feel one's love for the thing, whose absence gives us pain. Consequently, since love is pleasant, both pain and whatever else results from love, in so far as they remind us of our love, are pleasant.
pain hate blessed
Even as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will be the most perfect hate. Wherefore as the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods. Consequently the sight of the happiness of the saints will give them very great pain.
pain tough-times tough
In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain. Theresa May
pain joy forever
For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever. Therese of Lisieux
pain hate people
The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain. Tess Gerritsen
pain lying feelings
The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain Tertullian
pain grief illumination
I recently got back from Hiroshima and it was fascinating to me how the Japanese accommodate this paradox. We were talking about this word aware, which on the page looks like "aware," which speaks to both the pain and the beauty of our lives. Being there, what I perceived was that this is a sorrow that is not a grief that one forgets or recovers from, but it is a burning, searing illumination of love for the delicacy and strength of our relations. Terry Tempest Williams
pain joy making-love
The pain that we feel when we are making love with someone is that we know it will end. It's that paradoxical response of joy and suffering.
pain moving writing
I have felt the pain that arises from a recognition of beauty, pain we hold when we remember what we are connected to and the delicacy of our relations. It is this tenderness born out of a connection to place that fuels my writing. Writing becomes an act of compassion toward life, the life we so often refuse to see because if we look too closely or feel too deeply, there may be no end to our suffering. But words empower us, move us beyond our suffering, and set us free. This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.
pain simple thinking
Sometimes I think nothing is simple but the feeling of pain. Lester Bangs
pain differences purpose
Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of anguish and wonder and pain? … The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. Leo Rosten
pain joy hopeful
Say "yes" to life! "Yes" to wonder, to joy, to despair. "Yes" to pain, "yes" to what you don't understand. Try "yes." Try "always." Try "possible." Try "hopeful." Try "I will." And try "I can." Leo Buscaglia
pain ends
When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves.
pain giving suffering
It is very difficult to give a 15 second sound bite on why there is pain and suffering in this world and not have it come off as being flippant or surface level or superficial. Lee Strobel
pain reality suffering
There are Eastern religions that deny the reality of pain and suffering. They just try to wipe it away by saying it's all an illusion.
pain suffering world
Courage would be impossible in a world without pain.