“For this reason, it is well said that misfortune is sometimes good for something, for it teaches at the same time that… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
Either you can lie down or you can stand up and say, 'I'm going to be a man about it, go out… — Bob Sanders Copy Share Image
Life: in all it's pain, misery, grandiosity and glory. I sing for myself, yet if others truly find inspiration through my words,… — John O'Callaghan Copy Share Image
You know, men are very tough and they don't want to ever say that they need a break or that they are… — Cheryl Burke Copy Share Image
The possibilities. Is there any greater pain to know what could be, and yet be powerless to make it be? — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
Then there were things-- epic, terrible things-- that he didn't tell her but skirted around, like caressing the edges of a wound,… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“For human nature is such that grief and pain—even simultaneously suffered—do not add up as a whole in our consciousness, but hide,… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“To be of the Earth is to know the restlessness of being a seed the darkness of being planted the struggle toward… — John Soos Copy Share Image
The pangs of pain, of failure, in this mortal lot, are the birth-throes of transition to better things. We are separated for… — John Elof Boodin Copy Share Image
Pain from problems and disappointments, etc., is inevitable in life, but suffering is a choice determined by whether you choose to compare… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
When I am halfway there with a painting, it can occasionally be thrilling... But it happens very rarely; usually it's agony... I… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
“The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“Pain Fuels My Pen (Sonnet) When I started writing, I had a partner, I had plans to settle in Sofia with her.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Yet the pain just isn't quite here, you know? That is, the pain in the sense of a weight of needing to… — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
“Ignorance causes pain, but awareness creates happiness. Therefore, look for enlightenment every day.” — Linda Alfiori Copy Share Image
Love should make joy; but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Science tells us that love not only diminishes the experience of physical pain but can make us—and our beloveds—healthier.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
And the salt in my wounds isn't burning anymore than it used to It's not that I don't feel the pain, it's… — ProudLesbian Copy Share Image
You told me what I wanted to hear, but it's just another sweet nothing whispered in every girls ear. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The pain is constant, steady, never-ending. It's the only thing I know. I don't want to be awake anymore.” — Katja Millay Copy Share Image
“Truly there are different kinds of pain. But the most agonizing is the pain of regret, for which there is no lasting… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I wrote to make sense out of all the contradictions I experienced and to deal with the pain and loss I was… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The condition in extreme is identifiable but the less obvious version of addiction is still painful and arguably worse because we simply… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
“All that happens is as habitual and familiar as roses in spring and fruit in the summer. True too of disease, death,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I woke up too soon from an operation, unanaesthetised but unable to speak, and thought I was going to die from the… — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
“Rather than being incensed by the nature of the bruise, maybe we should be inspired by the possibilities in the bruise.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Those moments when you just suddenly burst into tears...releasing the pain you've held since the past few days. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
God doesn't intend for you to handle all the pain and stress in your life by yourself. We were wired for each… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
Everyday I smile and laughing like a normal girl, but as soon as I get home I cry like a cloud I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pain is forever a loss. once we are at a loss we are forever at a loss. pain once meets our standard… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Each day it's like: 'How many more days am I going to feel young and vibrant? I feel young and vibrant now,… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
You have to use your pain as your gift. If you're able to take something really negative and repackage it as something… — Julia Fox Copy Share Image