Pain Quotes

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.

I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that.

Young people can be disruptive and screw up classes. But even if they are being a pain in the arse it's a cry for help - they don't feel like they are being listened to.

The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.

A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.

Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

I took pain pills to get to sleep because I didn't want to go to work the next day exhausted.

I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague.

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.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.

Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.