Pain Quotes

We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries are still, by historical standards, extraordinarily well off.

When I'm playing a character like Jonathan in Ripley's Game I want to be in the moment when he's feeling pain; this very ordinary person who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances.

Animal abuse is rampant in the U.S., right under everyone's eyes, for the entertainment of the public. The brutal confinement and pain of training methods of wild animals in the circus, the aquatic and theatrical shows, leads to retaliation by the animals. Eventually they find the right time to strike out, and they will.

I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.

It's a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain.

The wages of pedantry is pain.

A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.

Whenever you get a sharp pain, you need to back it off.

We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.

I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return. I've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who've lost their jobs.

The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.

I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain.

The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

I don't know if we ever fully get over the pain of watching a child trying to find their way through a world that too often doesn't understand.

And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?

Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.

I have been recently diagnosed with Sjogren's Syndrome, an autoimmune disease which is an ongoing medical condition that affects my energy level and causes fatigue and joint pain.

I am told that the majority of Iraqis wanted Saddam removed from power, but they were unwilling and were incapable of doing the job themselves because they feared Saddam and knew the pain and torture he was capable of inflicting upon them.

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.

The marathon always starts after 30K. That's where the problems start. You start without any problems, without any pain. All the pain comes after 30K. Sometimes, it's possible to have pain even in the finger.

I do understand what it is to not want to commit to someone, knowing that might bring pain or commit to a life that has to do with being responsible to people other than myself. These things, I think, are normal things.

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