Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child.
Pat Benatar

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

This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.
Shaquille O'Neal

It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.
Emil Zatopek

Researches tested a new form of medical marijuana that treats pain but doesn't get the user high, prompting patients who need medical marijuana to declare, "Thank you?"
Jimmy Fallon

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.
Robert Rauschenberg

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
Sophocles

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

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
Norman Cousins

To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to salvation at last.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
Kevyn Aucoin

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
Cesare Pavese

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.
Joyce Carol Oates

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

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
R. D. Laing

I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed by my audience who said your private pain which you have unwittingly shown us in your early songs is also ours.
Pete Townshend

People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there.
Jennifer Lopez

I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.
Sting

The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.
Anne Rice

It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.
Eddie Vedder