Pain Quotes

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

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.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

I pay my own bills. I feel my own pain.

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.

A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look.

Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.

Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't know if that's because I'm a human being or because I'm an Irishman or both.

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?

All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.

There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of death. You see, something happens when the body knows it's about to go. Peptide hormones are released by cells in the hypothalamus and pituitary gland. Endorphins. They attach themselves to the cells responsible for feeling pain.

I was tortured fifteen times, that's total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

In some ways that fight gave me more respect around the world and helped me be even more popular because so many people felt my pain and saw that I was robbed.

Directors say that you should get actors before they are recognized. They will be a pain or have an opinion.

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.

I hate people who splash their own pain on covers, like the whole world should hear about them. Why are we all supposed to be interested in one individual's suffering?

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

I don't care what people think about me because I know I am more than all the pain and strife they hold inside.

When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience.

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

Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death.

Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.

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.

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.