Pain Quotes - page 8

We know enough to stand here in truth - facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the victims' families who are here today. Before the judgment of our own conscience. (Aleksander Kwasniewski)
Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary. View quote
Anna Friel
I think I'd like to be able to heal people's pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever. View quote
Brandi Chastain
The wages of pedantry is pain. View quote
Carroll O'Connor
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. View quote
Frank Leahy
Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it. View quote
Kevyn Aucoin
That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb. View quote
Kathy Mattea
Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth. View quote
Keith Miller
Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease. View quote
Keith Miller
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy? View quote
Leslie Caron
I have lived most my life with chronic inflammation and constant pain with immediate diarrhea. (Mike McCready)
One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives. View quote
Polly Toynbee
But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things. View quote
Richard Krajicek
There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain. View quote
Suzanne Farrell
I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation. View quote
Todd Solondz
Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through. View quote
Germaine Greer
It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience. View quote
Julius Caesar
He had a sensation of anxiety and shame, a sensitivity acute beyond usefulness, as if the nervous system, flayed of its old hide of social usage, must record every touch of pain. View quote
John Updike
The more a thing is perfect, the more if feels pleasure and pain. View quote
Dante Alighieri
I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts, and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that people can't be judged only by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh judgements make hypocrites of us all; that a lot of life is just showing up and hanging on; that laughter is often the best, and sometimes only response to pain. View quote
Bill Clinton
Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings And some are treasured for their markings - They cause the eyes to melt Or the body to shriek without pain. (Craig Raine)
Eternity and pain, pain and eternity - they are the only two things of which the universe is made. View quote
David Zindell
How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge. View quote
Alain de Botton
It's very easy to feel someone's pain when you love them. View quote
Salma Hayek