Pain Quotes - page 3

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict. (Jim Morrison)
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. View quote
Erma Bombeck
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys. View quote
Emil Zátopek
I drank to drown my pain, but the damned pain learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good behavior. View quote
Frida Kahlo
We must all suffer from one of two pains the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons. View quote
Jim Rohn
Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then. View quote
Anthony Hopkins
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar. View quote
Matthew Henry
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. View quote
Marcel Proust
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. View quote
Edith Hamilton
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. (Milan Kundera)
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away. View quote
Mary Balogh
Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits -- which was exactly where they were supposed to be. View quote
Richard Marcinko
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. View quote
Frank Luntz
The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer. View quote
Laura Hillenbrand
A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain. Louie thought: Let go. View quote
Laura Hillenbrand
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony. View quote
Benjamin Britten
The pain of sexual frustration, of repressed tenderness, of denied curiosity, of isolation in the ego, of greed, suppressed rebellion, of hatred poisoning all love and generosity, permeates our sexuality. What we love we destroy. (Germaine Greer)
I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him. View quote
Umberto Eco
Joy always came after pain. View quote
Guillaume Apollinaire
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. View quote
Haruki Murakami