Pain Quotes

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.
Jennifer Aniston

Love, Greater, Capacity

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
Ovid

Grief, Calmness, Borne

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

Freedom, Pleasure, Ends

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.
Sophocles

Words, Ill, Cure

From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
Michelangelo

Born, Gentle, Delight

Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.
Charles Kingsley

Evil, Unless, Conquers

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
Joseph Joubert

Mind, Delight, Brings

A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.
Laurel Lee

Heart, Thoughts, Play

My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.
Brooke Shields

Death, Sadness, Father

Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.
Tori Amos

Life, Give, Again

Pain is temporary, film is forever.
Michael J. Fox

Film, Forever, Temporary

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
Rita Rudner

Marriage, Men, Prepared

The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.
Herodotus

Power, Nothing, Worst

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
Marquis de Sade

Women, Experience, May

There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
Thomas Hardy

Both, Tongue, Sound

I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.
Kanye West

Life, God, Live

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.
Jennifer Aniston

Sadness, Parents, Acting

Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.
Roger Waters

Death, Night, Last

High heels are pleasure with pain.
Christian Louboutin

High, Pleasure, Heels

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
John Stuart Mill

Happiness, Wrong, Pleasure

All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.
John Stuart Mill

Means, Themselves, Either

Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary.
Anna Friel

Mother, Sleep, Forget

I almost resent the whole fashion thing. Good God- never wearing the same thing twice and all of those things. It's a pain in the ass.
Jennifer Aniston

Good, Fashion, Same

When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain.
Jennifer Aniston

Try, Avoid, Greater

Showing young children in these communities, that there are outlets for their feelings, that there is room in a space for their stories to be told, and that they will be applauded - and it's not about ego, it's about connection: that their pain is everybody else's pain.
Tom Hiddleston

Children, Ego, Feelings

One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.
Morris West

Doubt, Acceptance, Living

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
Tertullian

Feeling, Away, Lies

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
Cyril Connolly

Wisdom, Strong, Made

There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.
William Shatner

Dreams, Time, Joy

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
John Patrick

Life, Wisdom, Wise

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