Pain Quotes

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

Victory, Far, Persevere

It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.
Polly Toynbee

Happiness, Brain, Pretty

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.
Paula Cole

Music, Anger, Humble

I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
Patricia Cornwell

Sensitive, Suffer

Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.
Roald Dahl

Happy, Today, Doubt

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

I hadn't even released my first proper single when I started to feel the strain of attention. But I don't believe that it was the attention that was giving me panic attacks. I think it was everything in my life colliding at the same time. It really did get to a serious point where I couldn't even walk down the street without getting the pain.
Ellie Goulding

Life, Time, Single

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

Wonderful, Adrenaline, Dementia

Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.
Gene Tierney

History, Become, Often

For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.
David Foster Wallace

Fire, Off, Getting

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.
Dean Koontz

Love, Writing, Sometimes

We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries are still, by historical standards, extraordinarily well off.
Peter Singer

May, Off, Level

This is the pain pacemaker. I've got a battery under my skin. From that battery are two electrodes that go into the spine where they cut bone away to accommodate it. Now I put on the power here. If I have the pain, the stimulator starts. It's tingling, like when your foot falls asleep, you know?
Jerry Lewis

Power, Two, Put

Everybody needs a way out of that pain. Many people choose drugs and alcohol. Some people obsessively exercise or develop strange dietary habits, which is what I did. At least it got me toward a path of healthier living.
Mariel Hemingway

Living, Strange, Path

Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.
Chilon

Time, Moment, Loss

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.
Kanye West

Music, Art, Hurt

I don't particularly like going on about being gay or making a big thing about it, but I think it's a bit of a pain to be secretive about it.
Evan Davis

Gay, Big, Making

You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.
Jack Youngblood

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.
Terry Bradshaw

Life, Funny, Humor

I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse.
Harold Pinter

Since, Cancer, Bit

In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain.
Theresa May

Tough, Everyone, Times

The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs.
Gwyneth Paltrow

Work, Learn, Difficult

I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?
Liz Phair

Good, Art, Mean

It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.
Sylvester Stallone

Great, Knowledge, Help

The marathon always starts after 30K. That's where the problems start. You start without any problems, without any pain. All the pain comes after 30K. Sometimes, it's possible to have pain even in the finger.
Haile Gebrselassie

After, Sometimes, Problems

World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love, Bitter, Cold

I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.
Shaquille O'Neal

Football, Basketball, Same

You don't have to hold onto the pain to hold onto the memory.
Janet Jackson

Memory, Hold, Onto

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.
Julie Walters

Mother, Emotional, Children

I do get the comics online I guess but it's such a pain. I'd rather just get them in the paper and read them.
Drew Carey

Rather, Read, Paper

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