Pain Quotes

As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice.
Christy Turlington

Spiritual, Long, Against

I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached. She needed to have someone who understood what was happening in her mind.
Charles Bronson

Mind, Someone, Her

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

Time, Moment, Loss

I shall give you hunger, and pain, and sleepless nights. Also beauty, and satisfactions known to few, and glimpses of the heavenly life. None of these you shall have continually, and of their coming and going you shall not be foretold.
Howard Lindsay

Life, Beauty, Give

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.
George Saunders

Love, Fear, Kindness

Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in a way that they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way.
George Saunders

Politics, Human, Put

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

Everybody loves to spend money at least some of the time - because everybody loves the stuff you can buy with it. The key to the pleasure level of any transaction is the balance between the pain of the payment and the reward of the purchased object.
Jeffrey Kluger

Time, Money, Between

Spending $1 for a brand new house would feel very, very good. Spending $1,000 for a ham sandwich would feel very, very bad. Spending $19,000 for a small family car would feel, well, more or less right. But as with physical pain, fiscal pain can depend on the individual, and everyone has a different threshold.
Jeffrey Kluger

Family, Good, Car

Suffering is always hard to quantify - especially when the pain is caused by as cruel a disease as Alzheimer's. Most illnesses attack the body; Alzheimer's destroys the mind - and in the process, annihilates the very self.
Jeffrey Kluger

Mind, Self, Hard

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

I want to take all the pain that I feel and celebrate and turn it around.
Stevie Wonder

Around, Turn, Celebrate

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

There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.
George Michael

Truth, Find, Comfort

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

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.
Johnny Knoxville

Good, High, Doctors

That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.
Kathy Mattea

Great, Joy, Living

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, Cold, Bitter

And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain.
Jean Ingelow

Heart, Through, Old

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

Music, Joy, Grief

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
Kenji Miyazawa

Journey, Embrace, Burn

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.
Shawn Johnson

Two, American, Able

The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.
Freeman Dyson

Child, Remembered, Childbirth

All they teach you in drama school is how to do stage fights and be a pain in rehearsals.
Craig Ferguson

School, Stage, Drama

Fear and pain and suffering is not OK for any being to feel intentionally at the hands of us.
Leona Lewis

Fear, Suffering, Hands

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

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

Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.
Karen Armstrong

Life, Human, Reality

Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.
Karen Armstrong

Good, Another, Lies

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