Pain Quotes

When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.
Whittaker Chambers

Life, True, Children

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.
Whittaker Chambers

Life, Death, Struggle

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.
John Leonard

Mind, Moving, Bad

As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife's Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights.
Jim Gaffigan

Dad, Parenting, Wife

Living in somebody else's pain for an actor man, it's actually nice when you get to feel that kind of emotion. That's what I like.
Miles Teller

Nice, Living, Else

I am told that the majority of Iraqis wanted Saddam removed from power, but they were unwilling and were incapable of doing the job themselves because they feared Saddam and knew the pain and torture he was capable of inflicting upon them.
Howard Coble

Power, Job, Wanted

Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.
Patricia Velasquez

Time, Girl, Bad

It was in San Diego and I was onstage and couldn't remember how to play the guitar properly. I was in terrible pain and my nervous system was just going wild, like somebody had just run a car over me.
Andy Partridge

Car, Remember, Play

If I can bring joy into the world, if I can get people to stop thinking about their pain for a moment, or the fact the tomorrow morning they're going to get up and tell their boss off... then I'll be successful.
Bobby McFerrin

Morning, Successful, Tomorrow

I pay my own bills. I feel my own pain.
Romario

I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.
Michael Chertoff

Alone, Suffering, Idea

Directors say that you should get actors before they are recognized. They will be a pain or have an opinion.
Dianne Wiest

Before, Opinion, Directors

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.
James Stockdale

Time, Giving, Same

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.
Dick York

Long, Down, Give

I was seeing everything through pain. I would roll out of bed and do my exercises. I had to do that to work out the remainder of the pain pills. I would drink coffee and go to the set and plunge myself so far into my work.
Dick York

Work, Through, Coffee

You're lucky I took me a vow of non-violence, or you'd be suffering some pain right now.
Mike Fink

Suffering, Lucky, Took

But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things.
Richard Krajicek

After, Again, Able

Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain.
Shane Black

Job, Writing, Real

Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.
Rene Daumal

Words, Thought, Cannot

Last tour my bass rig was breaking down every other night. That was a pain. We would get on stage and Trey would count off the song, and I'd play the first note and nothing would be there. Those guys would just roll their eyes.
Mike Gordon

Nothing, Night, Down

I want 'Flesh Of My Flesh' to be like my connection to the community, I want to say what's on my peoples' minds, soak up all their pain. I've learned that when I take it all in, I can make one brotha's pain be understood by the world.
DMX

Learned, Minds, Community

I don't feel there's any kind of pain in my life.
Wes Borland

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.
Aleksander Kwasniewski

Truth, Today, Enough

A lot of other things come along with Chapter 11, which basically end up in a lot of pain.
Rick Wagoner

End, Along, Chapter

I want to express myself to feel that what I feel is real. My joy, my pain, my anger.
Annabella Sciorra

Anger, Real, Joy

Music saved my life. The voice you hear, the soul, the pain, is that of a person who deeply, deeply, deeply appreciates the opportunity they've been given.
Cee Lo Green

Life, Music, Person

When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others.
Sue Monk Kidd

Find, Others, Become

Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.
Joshua Leonard

Yourself, Joy, Avoid

I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do.
Alexis Korner

Why, Wants, Pass

I don't deal with death very well. My brother, John Candy, my dad, my mom, Brandon Tartikoff just a couple of weeks ago. I mean, you lose a lot of people in your life, and that's one thing I am constantly working on - pain management.
James Belushi

Life, Death, Mom

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