The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it.
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
People were laughing at us and we knew it was our fault. The scandal caused us a lot of pain but I guess it made us face reality.
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.
Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter – like a wail – acknowledges and replies to pain.
If we were going to default, we would have decided that many months ago. It would be wrong for the Greek economy, it would be wrong for the European economy, it would make things worse in the end. That’s why we’re taking the pain and making these structural reforms, and we’re on target.
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.
I work tirelessly advocating for gun violence prevention and promoting common-sense gun laws that could spare other parents the pain of having their child taken by senseless gun violence – laws the NRA’s leadership has fought against relentlessly.
A lot of times when you play… you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness – otherwise how would you know when you’re happy?
The ecstasy of driving a new Ferrari is now almost always eradicated by the pain of dealing with the organisation.
Suicide is a serious thing. And if you know anyone who is suicidal, you need to get them help. No one should be in pain. Everyone should love themselves.
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.
Our memories are our own, and we cannot blame anything or anyone in the past for any pain dwelling there. If we open the door to them or keep hashing over past incidents in our minds, we have only ourselves to blame.
Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
You learned the concept ‘pain’ when you learned language.
I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.
It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
I was about 17 or 18 years old, and Chris Rock’s ‘Bring the Pain’ came out, and I was obsessed. You know, it just hit on everything that was going on at that time and was such an in-the-moment special, and he knocked it out of the park.
No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary. No matter what happens to you, no matter the depth of tragedy or pain you face, no matter how death stalks you and your loved ones, the Resurrection promises you a future of immeasurable good.
Strength doesn’t mean an absence of pain.
I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.
The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
When you’re growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you’ve let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put him on such a high pedestal and he lets you down, you never want to experience that pain again.
I can take more pain than anyone.
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
Christian Louboutin, I love you, but honey, please! But when you have this much weight, you’ve got to give us a little platform. Sorry! The shoes are stunning though. An ounce of pain, it’s worth it.
We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.
I’m no stranger to pain. It’s what made me.
To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.
Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
I’m no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don’t possess any secret wisdom. I’m just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I’m highly emotional. I’m very vulnerable.
I’m diligent about using eye drops and ointment before bed, which seems to minimize the frequency and severity of corneal abrasions. When I wake up now with an abrasion, I know I need to stay calm and effectively treat the pain. I can usually get back to sleep within a couple of hours.
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.
This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I’m discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it’s a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.
I think it’s the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you’re a person that matters.
Positive thinking is a valuable tool that can help you overcome obstacles, deal with pain, and reach new goals.
If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.
The web and physical world is plagued with abundance – people need help sorting through all the good and bad stuff out there. The tyranny of choice is causing major psychic pain and frustration for people.
It’s so important for those living with chronic pain to establish good communication with both their healthcare professionals and caregivers. Clear communication about pain is vital to receiving proper diagnosis and effective treatment.
I don’t care what people think about me because I know I am more than all the pain and strife they hold inside.
You get very tired, and there was a certain amount of pain and you slow up. Your legs are so tired that you are in fact slowing. If you don’t keep running, keep your blood circulating, the muscles stop pumping the blood back and you get dizzy.
As I have always said, those closest to the pain should be closest to the power.
Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to… Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain.
Chronic pain can be very lonely. It can have a shame-based quality.
Let’s use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people’s stories and histories.
What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?
I think I’m in better shape now than I was 10 years ago, but it takes a bigger toll – I get back pain!
