Pain Quotes

10612 Pain quotes by 4482 unique authors

One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when he is human, soon takes upon itself the… — Joseph Conrad
All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain and languor; it's like spending this year part of next year's revenue. — Jonathan Swift
To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom… — Jean Giraudoux
"Fussy eater" is a euphemism for "big pain in the ass." — George Carlin
The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around. — Herb Caen
Nature is like a beautiful woman that may be as delightfully and as truly known at a certain distance as upon a closer view; as… — George Santayana
There is no such thing as a peace of soul approach to religion. It makes of God a gigantic Bayer Aspirin; take God three times… — John Powell
Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, Through me the way that runs among the lost.… — Dante Alighieri
Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel. — August Wilson
In rare moments of deep play, we can lay aside our sense of self, shed time's continuum, ignore pain, and sit quietly in the absolute… — Diane Ackerman
The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our… — M. Scott Peck
We believe we are hurt when we don't receive love. But that is not what hurts us. Our pain comes when we do not give… — Alan Cohen
Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life. — Jacob Burckhardt
If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution. — M. Scott Peck
The ego is your enemy, not your friend. It is the ego that gives you wounds and hurts you. It is the ego that makes… — Rajneesh
Maybe as times get worse we get better. Our pain makes us feel other people's too; our fear lets us practice valor; we are tense,… — Nancy Gibbs
When I speak to kids I tell them, 'Hey, you think your parents are a pain in the ass now, but they're going to get… — Charles Barkley
Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready. — Patrick Ewing
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity,… — Jack Kornfield
In opening we can see how many times we have mistaken small identities and fearful beliefs for our true nature and how limiting this is.… — Jack Kornfield
I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done in the lived… — Ernest Becker
Hurt people hurt people. That's how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt… — Yehuda Berg
Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged. — Seneca the Younger

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