Quotes about pain

Paul Tillich -

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

Paul Tillich -

Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

Paul Tillich -

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

Subcomandante Marcos -

The word of the oldest of the old of our peoples didn't stop. It spoke the truth, saying that our feet couldn't walk alone, that our history of pain and shame was repeated and multiplied in the flesh and blood of the brothers and sisters of other lands and skies.

Mark Strand -

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

Erica Jong -

In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn to poetry when someone they love dies, when they fall in love.

Annabella Sciorra -

I want to express myself to feel that what I feel is real. My joy, my pain, my anger.

Eddie Guerrero -

Since the day I was born, wrestling has sustained me and my family. It's the way my father fed me; it's the way I feed my kids. More importantly, wrestling is my greatest release. It's been such a blessing for me. I can step into the ring and let it all go - all my anger, all my frustration, all my pain.

Martha Beck -

Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your experiences to shed light, you may feel wrenching pain, grief, anger, or shame. Your audience may pity you, but not because you want them to.

Cory Booker -

You have to understand the Newark Riots - a lot of people understand that the pain was the initial explosion of anger and alienation, but after that, the response, sending the National Guard troops - a lot of violence was carried out and perpetrated by those who were allegedly coming here to protect residents.

Nell Hudson -

I think, often, when you are in just a lot of pain, it comes out as anger.

Michael Nutter -

I think there is a big difference between expressing the pain and anger that many African Americans and other people of color may feel versus language that I think now crosses the line and goes into hate.

Paula Cole -

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.

Dave Mustaine -

I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.

Emil Zatopek -

It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

Robert Rauschenberg -

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.

Tony Robbins -

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Lady Gaga -

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

L. Lionel Kendrick -

We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.

Mahmoud Darwish -

Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

Matthieu Ricard -

Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.

Bret Harte -

Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.

Kevin R. Stone -

Never, ever exercise in front of a TV or while reading. You lose 50 percent of the benefit of the exercise by not hearing and feeling your heart rate, your sweat and the pain levels that need to be encountered in fitness training.

Jenson Button -

For me, triathlons were something that was down to me and my fitness. Now, I really enjoy the pain in the triathlon of chasing someone down. It's a bit like chasing down Nico Rosberg in the last few laps at Silverstone - it makes you feel alive.

Giuseppe Zanotti -

Hip hop is the strongest form of protest there is, and it doesn't always have to be a violent protest. It can be romantic, also. When you listen to Kanye West's 'Street Lights' for example, there's romance, there's pain - you feel the essence. I get the same thing from Drake and 2 Chainz.

Kurt Cobain -

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

John Stuart Mill -

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

Debasish Mridha -

Let me not fear pain let me have the power to tolerate it.

Denice Envall -

I fell for you and I fell hard. You bruised my knees and my heart to the point where I will do everything in my power never to fall for anyone again. It’s safer to stay on your feet. I would rather walk through life completely without love - empty than crawl through what’s been pumping through my veins one more time.

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Pride helps us and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.

Mike Mullin - Ashfall

Hunger of choice is a painful luxury hunger of necessity is terrifying torture.

Rick Riordan - The Blood of Olympus

She'd expected some backlash it happened every time she shared her strength. But she hadn't anticipated so much raw anguish from Nico di Angelo… If this was only a portion of Nico’s pain… how could he bear it?

Amy Reed - Clean

This is the kind of thing that makes sense to them this is a language they know. They know what to do with`disease'. They know how to attach a doctor's medical descriptions to hope.

Paul Simon - Lyrics 1964-2008

And a rock feels no painAnd an island never cries.

Zeina Kassem - Crossing

I feel like my life is made up of tiny puzzle parts that no longer fit together. Imagine working on a puzzle only to find that the final picture can never be complete because one of its pieces is missing. This is exactly what's happened to my life it has become impossible to put it back together.

W. Somerset Maugham - The Painted Veil

Her pain was so great that she could have screamed at the top of her voice. She had never known that one could suffer so much and she asked herself desperately what she had done to deserve it.

Ashu Gaur -

Life is a Game of Chess Between Me and God Let the Best Player Win

J.M. Coetzee - Waiting for the Barbarians

Schmerz ist Wahrheit alles andere wird angezweifelt.

Omar Khayyám -

This worldthat was our homefor a brief spellnever brought us anythingbut pain and griefits a shame that not one of our problemswas ever solved.We departwith a thousand regretsin our hearts.

Fefe Dobson -

The things that drive me are poverty, and pain, and knowing that I don't want to end up being alone and I want to do something with my life and I want the name Dobson to remain in everyone's heads. Basically, just to rock and be the best performer I can be, and be true, and be real, and give people the real Fefe, nothing fake, all real.

Till Lindemann -

Loneliness sometimes gives me a quantity of creativeness - you're drinking another glass of wine and you're feeling even worse. Art doesn't work without pain art also exists for compensating pain.

Elaine Scarry - The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World

to have great pain is to have certainty to hear that another person has pain is to have doubt.

Margo T. Rose - The Words

There's no room for me in your worldIt's time I stopped pretending.But nothing hurts me moreThan a friendship when it's ending.

Sharon E. Rainey - The Best Part of My Day Healing Journal

The Aramaic word for “forgive” means literally to “untie.” Hatred and anger had bound me to my pain. The fastest way to free the self from an enemy and all associated negativity is to forgive. Untie those bindings free yourself from that person’s ugliness.

Channing Tatum -

My dad was a roofer when I was young. I believe he owned his own roofing company in Florida. And then he fell through a roof, broke his back. Permanently. I mean, he's not paralyzed or anything, but he's had to deal with pain for all of his life since then.

Jay-Z -

When you're growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you've let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put him on such a high pedestal and he lets you down, you never want to experience that pain again.

Justin Vernon -

Emma is not a person Emma is a place that you get stuck in Emma is a pain that you cannot erase.

Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365

Shake hands with today it is here already. Bid farewell to yesterday it’s gone already. Never let yesterday’s pain rob you of today’s gains. Drive yourself positively!

Margo T. Rose - The Words

Did you say all that you meant toBefore the curtain closed?Or did you feel so much moreThan we'll ever know?You were an amazing personOne of the very best.You were here for part of my storyI wish you could hear the rest.I miss your smile mostThe smile you had for all.Now I can only see itIn pictures on the wall.

C.S. Lewis - The Problem of Pain

No doubt Pain as God's megaphone is a terrible instrument it may lead to final and unrepented rebellion. But it gives the only opportunity the bad man can have for amendment. It removes the veil it plants the flag of truth within the fortress of a rebel soul.

Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Those who flame up in anger against you Satan gave them the fire to do so! Those who scratch your wound for it to pain you Satan gave them the stick to do so! Don’t hate the people hate the man who sponsor’s them~ satan!

Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Sometimes the pain is a startling breach that hobbles your entire soul dreadful losses that rupture your perceived reality. Pain so visceral and unrelenting that even death itself can begin to look like a welcomed and kind benefactor.

Orson Scott Card - Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card

The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure grief did not obliterate joy.

Surgeo Bell -

Don't be so impatient in finding love take your time & allow the Lord to write that special love story for you. Otherwise you'll be busy reading the back of the book.

Katja Michael -

You said you want to leave a mark on my heart. You did a burning pain that won’t leave me wherever I turn.

Susan Crandall - Whistling Past the Graveyard

I locked the door and turned on the water to fill the tub. I made it so hot that I had to get in real slow. I wanted it to hurt wanted my outside to feel as bad as my inside. I sat there a long time watching my skin turn redder and redder... Finally my insides was as fiery as my skin. I liked the burn and hoped it took everything I'd been wishing for and turned it to ashes.

C. JoyBell C. -

And so the beauty was in being alone but it was also the pain.

Anthony Liccione -

Sometimes the truth will hurt and a lie will set you free just as a lie will hurt and the truth will set you free.

Anthony Liccione -

What you see will hurt you what you don't see will hurt you.

Gabor Maté - In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

The addict's reliance on the drug to reawaken her dulled feelings is no adolescent caprice. The dullness is itself a consequence of an emotional malfunction not of her making the internal shutdown of vulnerability. Vulnerability is our susceptibility to be wounded. This fragility is part of our nature and cannot be escaped. The best the brain can do is to shut down conscious awareness of it when pain becomes so vast or unbearable that it threatens our ability to function. The automatic repressio

C.S. Lewis - The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis

No doubt Pain as God’s megaphone is a terrible instrument it may lead to final and unrepented rebellion. But it gives the only opportunity the bad man can have for amendment. It removes the veil it plans the flag of truth within the fortress of a rebel soul.

Taimoor Madni -

I hate everyone because everyone's same as others and everyone hates me because I'm unique. They hate me because I have a heart which gets hurt every time but at the end of the day it gets heal in a hope that next day wont be same as this one. So don't worry guys you can still use me.. :)

J.R. Johansson - Cut Me Free

Everything I've ever known is death and pain being drenched in life feels good.

L.A. Weatherly - Broken Sky

People here aren't mean they're not unsociable - it just hurts to get close to someone and then lose them

David L. Conroy - Out of the Nightmare: Recovery from Depression and Suicidal Pain

Self-destructive behaviors do not exist because there is a force within us that tries to hasten our return to an inorganic state they exist because they provide short-term relief from pain that threatens to become intolerable.

David L. Conroy - Out of the Nightmare: Recovery from Depression and Suicidal Pain

Suicide is not chosen it happens when pain exceeds resources for coping with pain.

Arthur Golden - Memoirs of a Geisha

The world was simply too cruel how could I survive?

Ted Chiang - Stories of Your Life and Others

Living with you will be likeaiming for a moving target you'll always be further along than I expect.

Benedict Smith -

Life is mostly pain and struggle the rest is love and deep dish pizza.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Souls are hurting need hope.

John E. Wordslinger -

Our Lord shouts and screamshis tears fall from heaven and spring the streams

Sreesha Divakaran - Dew

Let's live a lie for today.You’ll spin talesand pretend to love me.And I'll smile you’ll not realize it’s fakeThen I’ll pretendyour pretensions don’t cause me pain.

Cortney S. Warren - Lies We Tell Ourselves: The Psychology of Self-Deception

The truth is that pain is not inherently bad for us pain is information.

Sanjo Jendayi -

Pain can mask itself as a righteous companion silently forming a barrier between you & all that is good for you. Identify Pain. Now thank Pain for showing you that all of your senses & emotions are working as you send him on his way. Traveling with pain can slow you down & limit the distance you travel.

John A. Daly -

We are more sensitive to losses than to gains the pleasure of winning is less than the pain of losing.

Munia Khan -

Tears are my joy to hide my painlike thunder hides the sound of rain.

FEH -

Pain is like love indescribable

Munia Khan -

Weep hard as much as you need but do not let your tears pursue the sorrow for the rest of your life.

Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

We conform to pain until we don't notice it anymore it's what you call — numb — and it tragically blots out our pleasure too.

Bauvard - Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

The stoic contemplates fallen leaves the epicure rakes them into a loveseat.

M.F. Moonzajer -

When you revenge from the one you love at the end it will be only you bearing the pain.

Karan Patade -

My mediocrity is no secret My battles with it are

David Levithan -

The joy is in remembering the pain is in knowing it was yesterday.

Saurabh Sharma -

It's not that people are mean to each other it's just that they haven't forgotten the times when being selfless brought them loneliness & pain.

Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Maybe you receive pain selfishly — thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant both victim and aggressor.

Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Crisis is what suppressed pain looks like it always comes to the surface. It shakes you into reflection and healing.

Chris Prentiss - The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure

We wouldn't have much need of a war if people stopped using drugs. It's like taking up a fight against the use of headache remedies it will never work until the condition causing people's headache pain is healed.

Munia Khan -

There are various wounds to describe our hurtsthe deepest one is the most painful.

Akshay Vasu -

Every sword that was dripping the blood became a pen. Every word that was written in it became a poetry.

Akshay Vasu -

He stood in rain and the storm, watching a demon with his face standing and laughing at him on a chariot run by drunk horses. The storm threw dust into his eyes, while the demon unleashed the horses one after the other at him.

Nel Noddings - Peace Education: How We Come to Love and Hate War

The spectacle takes us away from our routines. For at least a time, we feel part of something big, colorful, exciting. It is perhaps understandable that civilians are often more enthusiastic during wartime than soldiers who have experienced battle. The soldiers know that war is often boring and dirty as well as terrifying and colorful. Even so, after some years, an old soldier like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., could brush aside his earlier description of the pain, boredom, and death of war and de

Pat Barker - Life Class

Everything stinks: creosote, bleach, disinfectant, soil, blood, gangrene.The military authorities say uniforms must be preserved at all costs, but that means manhandling patients who are in agony. Cut them off, says Sister Byrd, and she's the voice of authority here, in the Salle d'Attente, not some gold-braid-encrusted crustacean miles away from blood and pain, so cut they do, snip, snip, snip, snip, as close to the skin as they dare.On either side of Paul as he cuts are two long rows of feet:

Amy Ephron - A Cup of Tea

Keep a cool surface. Calm. Detached. As inside a part of you has been shattered.

Ian McEwan - Atonement

These memories sustained him, but not so easily. Too often they reminded him of where he was when he last summoned them. They lay on the far side of a great divide in time, as significant as B.C. and A.D. Before prison, before the war, before the sight of a corpse became a banality.

Michael Poeltl - The Judas Syndrome

The guns reminded me that this was just an attempt to punch holes in the darkness that enveloped us now.

Osamu Dazai - The Setting Sun

When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I was an idler. When I pretended I couldn't write a novel, people said I couldn't write. When I acted like a liar, they called me a liar. When I acted like a rich man, they started the rumor I was rich. When I feigned indifference, they classed me as the indifferent type. But when I inadvertently groaned because I was really in pain, they started the rumor that I was faking

Maggie Nelson - Bluets

102. After my friend's accident I take care of her. It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain.

Sherrilyn Kenyon - Infamous

The worst wounds, the deadliest of them, aren't the ones people see on the outside. They're the ones that make us bleed internally.