Pain Quotes - page 2

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior. (M. Scott Peck)
The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings. View quote
William Hazlitt
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity. View quote
William Hazlitt
Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from over mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life. View quote
Angelina Jolie
Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased - thus do we refute entropy. View quote
Spider Robinson
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. View quote
Edmund Burke
Pain is never permanent. View quote
Teresa of Ávila
Crude thoughts and fierce forces are my state. I do not know who I am. Nor what I was. I cannot hear a sound. Pain is near that will be like no pain felt before. View quote
Norman Mailer
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. View quote
Henry Miller
Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again. View quote
Tori Amos
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. (Maya Angelou)
Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn. View quote
Robert Browning
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. View quote
Cyril Connolly
Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
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. View quote
James Baldwin
I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie. View quote
Edith Wharton
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. View quote
Robert Penn Warren
There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us. View quote
Charles Kingsley
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. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature. View quote
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. View quote
Mary Tyler Moore
I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm not an advocate for the meat industry. View quote
Anthony Bourdain
People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. View quote
Jim Morrison