300 Quotes on Pain

• In the stillness of endurance, muted triumphs bloom louder than mantras, proving that silence often roars with resilience.

  Author: Clara Jodnans

• I'm gaining momentum, a blend of sad and droppin' words, it curves my pain straight in the art

  Author: Slim Shady - Eminem

• Growth is painful, change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

  Author: Tony Robbins

• The only way to truly heal is to embrace vulnerability and let go of pain.

  Author: Sophia Martinez

• Fear is simply the anticipation of pain, embrace it and see it dissolved by your courage

  Author: Emily Nguyen

• Strength comes not from resisting pain, but from finding the courage to endure it

  Author: Olivia Kane

• It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.

  Author: Roger Zelazny

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

  Author: Emil Zatopek

• If you have a guy like Jermaine, it's a pain in the neck. When we were on the road together in Europe, Jesus, I had to kick the girls off of him. I mean, they throw themselves on the floor and take off their hats.

  Author: Pia Zadora

• I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.

  Author: Loretta Young

• 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.

  Author: Dick York

• 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.

  Author: Dick York

• I took pain pills to get to sleep because I didn't want to go to work the next day exhausted.

  Author: Dick York

• Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.

  Author: John Yoo

• Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.

  Author: Yevgeny Yevtushenko

• Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.

  Author: J. Yeats

• Soul music is pain - you can hear the slaves, the beatin' and the hurtin'.

  Author: Link Wray

• Elvis was rock'n'roll. He came from the poverty and the pain.

  Author: Link Wray

• Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.

  Author: Naomi Wolf

• There's been a lot of speculation about every single girl I'm with and it actually does quite irritate me after a while, more so because it's a complete pain for the girls.

  Author: Prince William

• Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

  Author: George Will

• As I look back over fifty years of ministry, I recall innumerable tests, trials and times of crushing pain. But through it all, the Lord has proven faithful, loving, and totally true to all his promises.

  Author: David Wilkerson

• I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'

  Author: Olivia Wilde

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

  Author: Dianne Wiest

• You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford.That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this.

  Author: Meg Whitman

• 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.

  Author: Morris West

• There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

  Author: Simone Weil

• Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

  Author: Simone Weil

• We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

  Author: Alan Watts

• 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.

  Author: Roger Waters

• The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.

  Author: Wendy Wasserstein

• I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.

  Author: Robert Warren

• The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

  Author: Marina Warner

• 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.

  Author: Julie Walters

• I feel that the thing that probably aided me the most in that scene with the dog was the utilization and using an actual recreation, affective memory, if you want to call it, of pain.

  Author: Ray Walston

• 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.

  Author: David Wallace

• Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.

  Author: Tom Waits

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

  Author: Rick Wagoner

• A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it.

  Author: Lindsay Wagner

• Finally I had a place where I could express my pain and I felt safe because I didn't have to put my name on it. I think acting kept me alive back then.

  Author: Lindsay Wagner

• Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.

  Author: Peter Vries

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

  Author: Patricia Velasquez

• Pain is the root of knowledge.

  Author: Simone Veil

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

  Author: Eddie Vedder

• I told him that I can play it if he wanted to write it, and I would be willing to try and go there emotionally. I did not know as an actress if I would be able to get there, because when you feel really deep emotions or pain, you don't want to go back there.

  Author: Hunter Tylo

• 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.

  Author: Christy Turlington

• Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

  Author: Martin Tupper

• Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain.

  Author: Benjamin Tucker

• Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.

  Author: Garry Trudeau

• From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.

  Author: Robert Trout

• The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth.

  Author: Robert Trout

• What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.

  Author: Lionel Trilling

• There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

  Author: William Trevor

• There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.

  Author: John Travolta

• Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.

  Author: Polly Toynbee

• One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives.

  Author: Polly Toynbee

• 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.

  Author: Pete Townshend

• Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

  Author: Paul Tillich

• Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

  Author: Paul Tillich

• Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.

  Author: Paul Tillich

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

  Author: Gene Tierney

• This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.

  Author: John Thorn

• For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.

  Author: Francis Thompson

• 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.

  Author: Tertullian

• I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.

  Author: James Taylor

• We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.

  Author: James Taylor

• I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.

  Author: Amy Tan

• Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

  Author: Publilius Syrus

• In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas.

  Author: John Synge

• Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

  Author: Keith Sweat

• I still find that a kind of stricture of the heart happens when I see any form of bigoted or racist behaviour. I get an actual pain in my heart.

  Author: Janet Suzman

• This is always a pain because it's injustice too and so my response to it, I tell you what I am more surprised or horrified at Jews who forget to be humanists than I am at anybody else.

  Author: Janet Suzman

• I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell.

  Author: William Styron

• Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.

  Author: William Styron

• I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.

  Author: Meryl Streep

• Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

  Author: Mark Strand

• 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.

  Author: James Stockdale

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

  Author: Sting

• I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.

  Author: Mary Stewart

• Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

  Author: Laurence Sterne

• I don't know what to say to that, but I have to agree with Johnny that, yeah, we do touch upon things that most men would rather not admit: That we feel pain, we cry, get sad and sometimes don't deal well with disappointment.

  Author: Peter Steele

• Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.

  Author: Freya Stark

• 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.

  Author: Sylvester Stallone

• I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.

  Author: Layne Staley

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

  Author: Sophocles

• I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation.

  Author: Todd Solondz

• I fell in love with Neil's pain. We were in this cocoon of intensity. Neil and I were uniquely in the same position at the same time, having overwhelming success facing us.

  Author: Carrie Snodgress

• Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice.

  Author: Robert Smith

• To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.

  Author: George Smith

• You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.

  Author: Frank Sinatra

• All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.

  Author: James Simpson

• One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.

  Author: Carly Simon

• When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.

  Author: Andrew Shue

• 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.

  Author: Brooke Shields

• Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

  Author: Percy Shelley

• We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

  Author: Percy Shelley

• I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the pain they would inflict on others to carry out those purposes. Because the purposes were so good, they would justify this pain we were inflicting on other people.

  Author: Neil Sheehan

• We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

  Author: George Shaw

• Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

  Author: John Selden

• When I'm playing a character like Jonathan in Ripley's Game I want to be in the moment when he's feeling pain; this very ordinary person who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances.

  Author: Dougray Scott

• Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

  Author: Albert Schweitzer

• The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

  Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

• We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it and the middle class and Democrats under his leadership want to make sure that we can address deficit reduction and continue to make investments and shared sacrifice is going to be imperative in order to be able to do that.

  Author: Debbie Schultz

• Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

  Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

• It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

  Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

• Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

  Author: Karl Schlegel

• The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.

  Author: Jean Savarin

• In the country of pain we are each alone.

  Author: May Sarton

• If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.

  Author: George Santayana

• It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

  Author: Marquis Sade

• 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.

  Author: Marquis Sade

• Russia has gone through eight years of continuing economic pain.

  Author: Jeffrey Sachs

• Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

  Author: George Russell

• The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

  Author: Bertrand Russell

• Pain is love.

  Author: Ja Rule

• We know the pain the president has caused our society and his family and his friends, but we know, too, how much the president has done for this country.

  Author: Charles Ruff

• Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

  Author: Rita Rudner

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

  Author: Rita Rudner

• I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

  Author: Henry Rollins

• We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

  Author: Jim Rohn

• I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.

  Author: Dennis Rodman

• Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• Before we make love my husband takes a pain killer.

  Author: Joan Rivers

• Janis Joplin is definitely one of my biggest influences. She taught me how to feel music, and I don't think there's anyone like her that could bring such pain and emotion to a song.

  Author: LeAnn Rimes

• I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It's cleansing.

  Author: Lionel Richie

• It's the business I'm in, I can't say that signing things is the favourite part of my career but you know that it has to be done and that there is no pain involved.

  Author: Cliff Richard

• The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.

  Author: Anne Rice

• The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

  Author: Pierre Renoir

• An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.

  Author: Auguste Renoir

• 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.

  Author: Robert Rauschenberg

• Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you.

  Author: Gilda Radner

• The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.

  Author: Sally Quinn

• Some people are born gardeners, some are politicians. I was an actor. It took a great deal of pain before I figured that out. I didn't relate to most of it.

  Author: Kathleen Quinlan

• Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain.

  Author: Philip Pullman

• Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

  Author: Marcel Proust

• Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.

  Author: Hugh Prather

• We need to make sure that the fast-growing States and the balance of States in this country have as much information as available because I cannot imagine the pain as a parent myself of having my child molested by someone in our schools.

  Author: Jon Porter

• I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.

  Author: Robert Plant

• 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.

  Author: Harold Pinter

• Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

  Author: Francis Picabia

• Although a lot of pain for a little screen time; Shaving legs, waxing eyebrows, high heels, trying to put on a bra, losing weight because women's clothes are SO revealing - Ladies you have my respect.

  Author: Lou Phillips

• I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.

  Author: Emo Philips

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

  Author: Liz Phair

• The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

  Author: M. Peck

• Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

  Author: Pope Paul II

• 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.

  Author: Andy Partridge

• Remorse is the pain of sin.

  Author: Theodore Parker

• You are all things. Denying, rejecting, judging or hiding from any aspect of your total being creates pain and results in a lack of wholeness.

  Author: Joy Page

• Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

  Author: Ovid

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

  Author: Ovid

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

  Author: Shaquille O'Neal

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

  Author: Shaquille O'Neal

• Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you.

  Author: Frank O'Hara

• The wages of pedantry is pain.

  Author: Carroll O'Connor

• As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

  Author: Dan O'Brien

• 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.

  Author: Joyce Oates

• When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

  Author: Henri Nouwen

• Ali had a break that was an inch and a half long, and you keep getting hit as hard and as much as I hit Ali, the pain would take over and you would pass out.

  Author: Ken Norton

• I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

  Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

• It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

  Author: John Newman

• It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

  Author: John Newman

• When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

  Author: Ingrid Newkirk

• To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain.

  Author: Holly Near

• The pain of retirement means loss.

  Author: John Murray

• When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.

  Author: Toni Morrison

• We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

  Author: Jim Morrison

• Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

  Author: Christopher Morley

• To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

  Author: Jeanne Moreau

• And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.

  Author: Thomas Moore

• Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

  Author: Mary Moore

• The toughest workout can never match the pain of being out of work.

  Author: George Montgomery

• And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing.

  Author: Ricardo Montalban

• Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

  Author: Keith Miller

• Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease.

  Author: Keith Miller

• I was taught that pain is bad.

  Author: Keith Miller

• I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.

  Author: Keith Miller

• The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

  Author: Henry Miller

• 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.

  Author: John Mill

• Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

  Author: John Mill

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

  Author: Michelangelo

• A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

  Author: Michelangelo

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

  Author: George Michael

• The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.

  Author: Margaret Mead

• The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

  Author: Karl Marx

• One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

  Author: Bob Marley

• I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that.

  Author: Patrick Marber

• Pain's not bad, it's good. It teaches you things. I understand that.

  Author: Charles Manson

• By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.

  Author: Barbara Mandrell

• All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.

  Author: Joseph Maistre

• At my age, you need to verify that everything is fine. I put a lot of pressure on my body, and I feel sometimes pain in my back and in my knees, so I have to be sure that I can keep on training hard before going on.

  Author: Hermann Maier

• It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.

  Author: Mary MacLane

• Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.

  Author: Ernst Mach

• Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors.

  Author: Bernie Mac

• There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear.

  Author: Frank Luntz

• The language of America changed with the election of Bill Clinton, because with all due respect to my friends on the Republican side, Bill Clinton is the best communicator of the last 50 years. He felt your pain.

  Author: Frank Luntz

• Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.

  Author: Malcolm Lowry

• They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.

  Author: Henry Longfellow

• The pain was considerable, but trivial compared with my mental state.

  Author: Harold Lloyd

• When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience.

  Author: Jerry Lewis

• What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

  Author: Bernard Levin

• 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.

  Author: John Leonard

• I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer.

  Author: Hugh Leonard

• God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

  Author: John Lennon

• I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.

  Author: Carol Leifer

• 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.

  Author: Laurel Lee

• Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

  Author: Frank Leahy

• Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.

  Author: Lillie Langtry

• 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.

  Author: Aleksander Kwasniewski

• There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

  Author: Milan Kundera

• The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

  Author: Jiddu Krishnamurti

• For a sensation to be felt as pain is for it to be pain.

  Author: Saul Kripke

• 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.

  Author: Richard Krajicek

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

  Author: Alexis Korner

• 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.

  Author: Dean Koontz

• Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.

  Author: Allen Klein

• Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.

  Author: Allen Klein

• Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.

  Author: Eartha Kitt

• Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

  Author: Barbara Kingsolver

• Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.

  Author: Charles Kingsley

• Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.

  Author: Ellen Key

• A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

  Author: Jack Kerouac

• If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.

  Author: Carl Karcher

• My painting carries with it the message of pain.

  Author: Frida Kahlo

• There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

  Author: Carl Jung

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

  Author: Joseph Joubert

• If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

  Author: Samuel Johnson

• A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

  Author: Samuel Johnson

• There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

  Author: Samuel Johnson

• When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith.

  Author: Mordecai Johnson

• We are all victims because of the circumstances, but I'm not sure what to say to any one who has lost a loved one. I know the feeling myself, and words just don't do much to ease the pain.

  Author: Lonnie Johnson

• It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

  Author: Lady Johnson

• How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

  Author: Thomas Jefferson

• He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.

  Author: Robinson Jeffers

• Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

  Author: Derek Jarman

• Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

  Author: Alice James

• The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be so ignorant again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again. Losing innocence. Remembering heaven. That was the essence of hell.

  Author: John Jakes

• I realize now I didn't really want to die. I just wanted to stop the hurt and pain.

  Author: LaToya Jackson

• You dont have to hold on to the pain, to hold on to the memory.

  Author: Janet Jackson

• But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain Make Good Together there we can begin again, In babyhood.

  Author: Helen Jackson

• No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

  Author: Eugene Ionesco

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

  Author: Jean Ingelow

• The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.

  Author: Saint Ignatius

• Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

  Author: Hypatia

• Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

  Author: Aldous Huxley

• Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

  Author: Victor Hugo

• After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn't a nice time.

  Author: Lena Horne

• I meditate a lot, but I am constantly in pain. I'm trying to live with this. You just have to accept it.

  Author: Roy Horn

• Imitation is the sincerest form of pain.

  Author: Roy Horn

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

  Author: Herodotus

• So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.

  Author: Matthew Henry

• I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.

  Author: Mariel Hemingway

• 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.

  Author: Mariel Hemingway

• I wanted out of my pain and that silliness, but I wanted an easy out. That's before realizing that there is no easy out. Before accepting that you just have to do the work.

  Author: Mariel Hemingway

• The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.

  Author: William Hazlitt

• The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

  Author: William Hazlitt

• Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

  Author: William Hazlitt

• There's a lot of pain in my heart because what I accomplished was second to none. I'm not losing any sleep, but I do pay attention every year at this time.

  Author: Bob Hayes

• In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day, The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain - Well, I have dreamed this coast myself.

  Author: Robert Hass

• Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.

  Author: Bret Harte

• When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.

  Author: Sydney Harris

• 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.

  Author: Thomas Hardy

• Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.

  Author: Robert Hamilton

• None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

  Author: Edith Hamilton

• I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

  Author: Anthony Hamilton

• Because one of the benefits of getting older, I guess-there are very few benefits, really - most of them are a pain in the butt. People depend on me more; they believe in me more, they think I'm good.

  Author: Lawrence Halprin

• I think everyone holds back. I am always censoring myself and I'm sorry about it. But I always have to consider whether my remarks might cause someone pain.

  Author: John Hall

• We all know pain doesn't exist without some coexisting depression.

  Author: Jerry Hall

• In some ways that fight gave me more respect around the world and helped me be even more popular because so many people felt my pain and saw that I was robbed.

  Author: Marvin Hagler

• Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.

  Author: Germaine Greer

• As anyone who has been close to someone that has committed suicide knows, there is no other pain like that felt after the incident.

  Author: Peter Greene

• I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.

  Author: Spalding Gray

• Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.

  Author: Anne Grant

• I paint because it hurts not to. Pain is in the word painting.

  Author: Marta Gottfried

• 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.

  Author: Mike Gordon

• I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.

  Author: Arthur Golden

• Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

  Author: Khalil Gibran

• Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

  Author: Khalil Gibran

• Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

  Author: Khalil Gibran

• Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

  Author: Khalil Gibran

• Bruce Willis. Pain in my ass, no problem about that. We just didn't get along. We got along off camera, but shooting we just didn't get along.

  Author: Antoine Fuqua

• When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.

  Author: Sadie Frost

• 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.

  Author: Anna Friel

• Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

  Author: Sigmund Freud

• Pain is temporary, film is forever.

  Author: Michael Fox

• You develop a third eye where you kind of know where they are in a room at all times but no matter how vigilant you are as a parent, at some point, you'll look around a room and can't find them and there's a searing pain that goes through your body.

  Author: Jodie Foster

• Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to... Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain.

  Author: Whitey Ford

• I don't know if we ever fully get over the pain of watching a child trying to find their way through a world that too often doesn't understand.

  Author: Anne Ford

• I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.

  Author: Ben Folds

• There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.

  Author: Rachel Field

• Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

  Author: William Faulkner

• There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.

  Author: Suzanne Farrell

• 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?"

  Author: Jimmy Fallon

• Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.

  Author: Patrick Ewing

• It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

  Author: Epictetus

• The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

  Author: Ted Engstrom

• Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

  Author: Max Eastman

• The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area.

  Author: Karen Duffy

• Elaine is just in pain. I think Elaine has become very, very sad woman. She is someone who is in deep need of many hours of analysis and I like to think that I'm not that type of person.

  Author: Julia Dreyfus

• My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.

  Author: Phyllis Diller

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