Pain Quotes

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

In the country of pain we are each alone.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.

Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.

Do not be afraid that joy will make the pain worse; it is needed like the air we breathe.

Detroit is a city that really stands out. It's been through a very difficult time. There's been a lot of pain here, and the city, physically, has suffered. You can see it in certain neighborhoods, and there's buildings downtown that have been abandoned.

You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.

Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.

I was taught that pain is bad.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.

So when it came to role models, I looked at presidents' wives. Of course, you're talking about a farm girl who stood in the fields, dreaming, years ago, wishing she was that kind of person. But if I had been that kind of person, do you think I could sing with the emotions I do? You sing with those emotions because you've had pain in your heart.

Soul music is pain - you can hear the slaves, the beatin' and the hurtin'.

I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle; I've been fighting so hard to have an education. It's been this uphill struggle. I was Warner Bros' pain in the butt. I was their scheduling conflict. I was the one who made life difficult.

To all my fans who planned to come to the Future History World tour, the pain of letting you down cuts me way deeper than this injury I've sustained.

Ali had a break that was an inch and a half long, and you keep getting hit as hard and as much as I hit Ali, the pain would take over and you would pass out.

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

Although a lot of pain for a little screen time; Shaving legs, waxing eyebrows, high heels, trying to put on a bra, losing weight because women's clothes are SO revealing - Ladies you have my respect.

The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area.

I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer.

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.

I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation.

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?