Pain Quotes

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.

From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.

Finally I had a place where I could express my pain and I felt safe because I didn't have to put my name on it. I think acting kept me alive back then.

As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain.

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.

Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It's strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former.

Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to... Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain.

If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

I was able to do Classics, the U.S. national championships and the Pan American Games and feel like I improved with each meet, but I was still struggling with a lot of residual pain from the two surgeries.

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.

A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

I wanted out of my pain and that silliness, but I wanted an easy out. That's before realizing that there is no easy out. Before accepting that you just have to do the work.

Janis Joplin is definitely one of my biggest influences. She taught me how to feel music, and I don't think there's anyone like her that could bring such pain and emotion to a song.

He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.

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.

Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

I, more or less, love camping out, so I dug it, but I didn't enjoy other people's pain.

If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.

Bullying is killing our kids. Being different is killing our kids and the kids who are bullying are dying inside. We have to save our kids whether they are bullied or they are bullying. They are all in pain.