Pain Quotes

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.

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.

The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.

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.

The pain was considerable, but trivial compared with my mental state.

Because one of the benefits of getting older, I guess-there are very few benefits, really - most of them are a pain in the butt. People depend on me more; they believe in me more, they think I'm good.

The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.

Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.

You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.

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.