Pain Quotes

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.

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.

Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.

I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

I don't think you should exploit your own pain.

It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one.

Adrenaline is wonderful. It covers pain. It covers dementia. It covers everything.

There's been a lot of speculation about every single girl I'm with and it actually does quite irritate me after a while, more so because it's a complete pain for the girls.

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

I fell in love with Neil's pain. We were in this cocoon of intensity. Neil and I were uniquely in the same position at the same time, having overwhelming success facing us.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.

Doctors have told me I have a high pain threshold, but I can only know what I feel. I think I'm good at minimising the pain and being indifferent to it.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.

The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.