Pain Quotes

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.

I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'

I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

My painting carries with it the message of pain.

My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain.

My purpose is far greater than my pain.

Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child.

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

It causes me great pain to sue the company I work for. Nevertheless, I had to do it. Suffice it to say, there's a dispute and I believe I haven't been given what is mine.

I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.

If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

We know enough to stand here in truth - facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the victims' families who are here today. Before the judgment of our own conscience.

Bruce Willis. Pain in my ass, no problem about that. We just didn't get along. We got along off camera, but shooting we just didn't get along.

Part of my training was learning how to refer patients to cardiologists for heart problems, gastroenterologists for stomach issues, and rheumatologists for joint pain. Given that most physicians were trained this way, it's no wonder that the average Medicare patient has six doctors and is on five different medications.

The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary 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.

I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.