Quotes about pain
pain kindness law
The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture. George Saunders
pain people connections
Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in a way that they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way. George Saunders
pain children issues
Comedy comes from pain, and no one knows that better than this woman Roseanne Barr—who was molested as a child. Uch. That poor molester. Roseanne never got over it. She felt violated. She had trust issues. She never got the candy he promised her. Jeff Ross
pain moving life-is-short
Life is short. You have to be able to laugh at our pain or we never move on. Jeff Ross
painful frustrating satisfied
When you make something you like and audiences reject it, the experience can be painful. But I've discovered...that when you make something you aren't exactly satisfied with, and someone tells you it's great, that's even mor...e painful and frustrating. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
pain suffering unjust
Pain is unjust, and all the arguments That cannot soothe it only rouse suspicion. Jean Racine
pain taken pride
One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity. Friedrich Nietzsche
pain littles pity
Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se. Friedrich Nietzsche
painful terrible emancipation
It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place. Friedrich Nietzsche
pain suffering cost
Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone. Friedrich Nietzsche
pain feelings needs
When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so readily feeling consoled. Friedrich Nietzsche
pain creativity hens
Pain makes hens and poets cackle. Friedrich Nietzsche
pain humanity doubt
It is only great pain--that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering green firewood--that forces us philosophers to sink to our ultimate profundity and to do away with all the trust, everything good-natured, veil-imposing, mild and middling, on which we may have previously based our humanity. I doubt that such a pain makes us 'better'--but I know that it makes us deeper. Friedrich Nietzsche
pain forever lasts
Pain is temporary, glory...lasts forever! George Best
pain pleasure prolonging
The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure. George Bernard Shaw
pain imagination romance
To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination. George Bernard Shaw
pain men islam
I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of history and as a critic. And I have come to conclusion that Muhammad (PBUH) was indeed a great man and a deliverer and benefactor of mankind which was till then writhing under the most agonising Pain. George Bernard Shaw
pain years boards
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation. George Bernard Shaw
pain years sick
The first year with ABT I learned 13 new roles. Most were lengthy ballets, more complicated than I was used to. I have suffered from tendinitis since I was 13, and it flared up again until the pain was paralyzing. There were times I prayed I'd be sick so I wouldn't have to go on. Gelsey Kirkland
pain thinking pleasure
Do you think it takes true pain to experience true pleasure? Gena Showalter
pain healing blood
What were you chanting when you gave me your blood?” “More of my vampire magic. I cast a healing spell to aid the powers of my blood.” She sniffled, her nose stuffy. “It was better than Vicodin.” “Vicodin?” “A painkiller from my world.” “A killer of pain. Did you love him?” The words were growled.A burst of unexpected humor gave her strength. “No. In fact, he was hard to shake. He, uh, stalked me, that kind of thing. I had to pretend he didn’t exist.” Nicolai kissed her temple and relaxed against her. Gena Showalter
pain acting shame
But we all must be true to our own nature. Acting as anyone other than yourself merely brings you pain and makes you appear ashamed of who and what you are. Others will feed off that shame, and soon it will be all that you are. Gena Showalter
pain demon
Hope is a demon worse than your Pain. Gena Showalter
pain earnestness
Time and pains will do anything. Frederick William Robertson
pain lying passion
Do you wish to become rich? You may become rich, that is, if you desire it in no half way, but thoroughly. A miser sacrifices all to his single passion; hoards farthings and dies possessed of wealth. Do you wish to master any science or accomplishment? Give yourself to it and it lies beneath your feet. Time and pains will do anything. This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come. Frederick William Robertson
pain children childbirth
The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered. Freeman Dyson
pain giving-up worry
it was like this. the brain could no longer bear the worries and pains that were imposed on it. it said: "i'm giving up; but if there is anyone else here who is interested in preserving the whole, let him assume part of my burden and it will be alright for a bit. Franz Kafka
pain men agony
A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't feel the pain. Your belly is whole and that's what counts. A half-yard away someone's world is snuffled out in roaring agony-and you feel nothing. That's the misery of the world. Erich Maria Remarque
pain flower love-is
Pain is not love. Love flowers; love gives without taking; love is serene and calm. Erica Jong
pain writing joy
It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless. Erica Jong
pain journey mixtures
This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I'm discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it's a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you. Eric Clapton
pain hate remember
Remember the pain?' thought Artemis. I hate myself. I really do. Eoin Colfer
pain use
There is always a use for everything, Victor had told him. Even pain. Eoin Colfer