Top 100 About Pain Quotes
#1. My heart longs for the day when there will be no more suffering, no more hatred or violence, only love and a child will be able to grow up in a world without ever having to know the pain and anguish of an empty belly.
Heather Wolf
#2. Her essay about the wedding ring was short. Kerr wrote: "Things are just things - they have no power to hurt or to heal. Only people can do that. And we can all choose whether to be hurt or healed by the people who love us."
That was all.
And that was everything.
Jack Canfield
#3. You never read about the real pain. It lives where no word can travel.
Vanna Bonta
#4. Do yourself a favor and forgive anyone that has anything against you. Do it as an act of faith and trust God to change and heal your emotions. Pray for your enemies and never say another unkind thing about them. It is the only way you can move past the pain and begin to heal.
Joyce Meyer
#5. The Haitians, who knew something about suffering and survival, had a beautiful phrase ... The Translation is not perfect, but the nut of it was: 'The season of pain is never over until the sky begins to cry.
Rick Bragg
#6. God knows life sucks. It's right there in the Bible. The book of Job is all about Job asking God to take away pain and misery. And God says, "I can't take away pain and misery because then no one would talk to me."
Bill Maher
#7. Your best authorial self is always one about to ruin the story.
Chuck Wendig
#8. Sometimes you might miss that person, sometimes you'll feel like running back to them ... sometimes you'll suffer from unbearable pain but sometimes you have to forget what you feel. And simply remember what you deserve, smile and move on!
Nehali Lalwani
#9. We heal up through being loved, and through loving others. We don't heal by forming a secret society of one - by assessing about the only other 'one' we might admit, and being doomed to disappointment.
Jeanette Winterson
#10. You can only hurt a person so much and then he doesn't feel the pain anymore. A hard man can take a kicking and not whine about it.
John Fenton
#11. I don't sit around with other actors and talk about the pain and the magic of acting.
Rhys Ifans
#12. I grinned at him, feeling more enthusiastic about my plan now that he was on board. Rosalie was a pain, but I would always owe her one for choosing Emmett; no one had a better brother than mine.
Stephenie Meyer
#13. People should know about us. Girls who write their pain on their bodies. ~Louisa
Kathleen Glasgow
#14. The best advice I got throughout my career was understanding what my current managers' pains and challenges are - it's not always just about hitting the number.
Jim McDonough
#15. Once upon a different time, there was a girl who lived in a kingdom of death. Wolves howled up her arm. A whole pack of them--made of tattoo ink and pain, memory and loss. It was the only thing about her that ever stayed the same.
Ryan Graudin
#16. There's something sexy about a naked woman gritting her teeth in pain, even when it shouldn't be sexy.
Travis Luedke
#17. Even a pain in the ass needs someone to care about them
E.L. James
#18. I primarily have had my career in comedy, and that is something that I have never been too concerned about because I know there is really no room for vanity in comedy. Comedy comes from pain and it is a lot easier to empathize with somebody who is out of shape.
Chris Pratt
#19. Strange, but I actually wished I was hungover. Because when you're so busy thinking about how awful you feel you forget for a moment how awful you are. Because pain can be its own relief. Because throwing up is a super-effective way to stay a size 0.
Elizabeth Little
#20. If you think about something else hard enough, you can mostly control your feelings.
Delia Ephron
#21. The way to transmute the pain of life is to reveal the wounded side of things, evil, even, and then place the wound inside of sacred space. The Bible is about naming, facing, and then forgiving the wounds of history.
Richard Rohr
#22. For me, the dying part wasn't so horrible. I was only in pain for a few moments before death arrived. For me, the difficult part was having so many things that I had yet to experience, leaving behind people that I cared about. I wasn't through living.
Suzannah Daniels
#23. I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-opening and harrowing experience.
Lane Garrison
#24. There is desire in those who love to hear about their loved ones' pains.
Euripides
#25. Forgot about this," he muttered into my hair. "Sorry?" "Forgot," he repeated. "Forgot?" "Forgot about carin' about someone so much you would do everything in your power to stop them havin' pain.
Kristen Ashley
#26. Lecture all you want, you picked me up when I was down and I guess I owe you that, but don't tell me about pain. Nobody knows unless they're on the inside.
Stephen King
#27. Every champion has discovered that pain is seasonal. It will pass ... Don't be discouraged by it. A New Day is about to dawn in your life!
Mike Murdock
#28. The fear of getting knocked down is less about the pain of the fall and more about the embarrassment in having fallen. And so, to rid myself of the latter is to reduce my concern about the former, which means I just unleashed my life.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#29. When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.
Emma Watson
#30. wouldn't have agreed if we'd known your mom was there." "Pain in the ass, let me tell ya." "You don't need to tell me," I say. "I know all about what a pain she can be." Dee laughs. "She's like a weapons-grade pain in the ass. We figured out to sic her on the bad guys, and she became a huge asset.
Susan Ee
#31. They looked at each other and some refraction of the pain in Tom's heart must have shown in his eyes.
Frank said, 'In pretty deep, huh?'
'About as deep as it gets.
Nicholas Evans
#32. We are becoming a nation of sissies and hypochondriacs, a self medicating society easily intimidated by pain and prone to panic. We understand almost nothing about the essential robustness of the human body or its ability to meet the challenge of illness.
Norman Cousins
#33. Although he had through the memories learned about the pain of loss and loneliness, now he gained too, an understanding of solitude and its joy.
Lois Lowry
#34. I'm not really concerned about boundaries. I just follow my conscience and my heart. Follow your heart. That's what I do. Compassion is something I have a lot of, because I've been through a lot of pain in my life. Anybody who has suffered a lot of pain has a lot of compassion.
Johnny Cash
#35. The only thing about sanctions is that, like a lot of drone strikes, there are countless unintended victims. Cutting off aid to Uganda only increases the pain there.
Henry Rollins
#36. I observed you in pain, lad. Pain's merely the axis of the test. Your mother's told you about our ways of observing. I see the signs of her teaching in you. Our test is crisis and observation.
Frank Herbert
#37. Isolating, shutting down, and feeling guilt about pain makes it linger so much longer. Reconnecting, trusting, and being open and honest is really the only cure. Reaching out and talking to loved ones and friends is a must.
Jaime Murray
#38. Fitz: How bad is it?
Nighteyes: Mind your own business.
Fitz: You ARE my business.
Nighteyes: Sharing pain doesn't loosen it.
Fitz: I'm not sure about THAT.
Robin Hobb
#39. This is not a story about your disappointment at my silence. The theme of this story is my pain and my attempts to end it.
Don DeLillo
#40. Like when someone, who has eaten and drunk far too much, vomits it back up again with agonising pain and is nevertheless glad about the relief, thus this sleepless man wished to free himself of these pleasures, these habits and all of this pointless life and himself, in an immense burst of disgust.
Hermann Hesse
#41. For those who have known pain and suffering and wondered why it all happened ... I don't know the reasons why, I just know that you must keep believing in hope and eventually you will get through.
Heather Wolf
#42. Life is about disappointments. Without the pain, how will we appreciate the good stuff?" "True.
Bijou Hunter
#43. She didn't give a damn about some of them, but she had grown to learn that inattention can be a stratagem to avoid pain, and that it is often misread as shallowness and indifference.
Thomas Harris
#44. Fear of pain has resulted in many women losing sight of birth as normal and natural, and of themselves as powerful and capable. Labor is an opportunity for women to learn about themselves and discover the strength and wisdom inherent in their bodies.
Deepak Chopra
#46. I wondered why so much had been written about love's pain and so little about the glorious relief of being delivered from love's pain.
Irene Hunt
#47. It's not the pain I'm afraid of; I know about the pain. What I'm afraid of is the end of this small, sweet dream.
Stephen King
#48. When there is pain, the animal instinct is 'fight or flight' (i.e., to either strike back or run away) - reflect instead. When you can calm yourself down, thinking about the dilemma that is causing you pain will bring you to a higher level and enlighten you, leading to progress.
Ray Dalio
#50. In order to handle my emotional pain I talk to friends about it, I write, I breathe, and most of all, I put it in perspective.
Lisa Loeb
#51. There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.
William Shatner
#52. Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already.
Jean De La Bruyere
#53. Steve talked to me a lot about being abandoned and the pain that caused, he said. It made him independent. He followed the beat of a different drummer, and that came from being in a different world than he was born into.
Walter Isaacson
#54. There is little that can be said about most economic goods. A toothbrush does little but clean teeth. Aspirin does little but dull pain. Alcohol is important mostly for making people more or less drunk ... There being so little to be said, much is to be invented.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#55. It's a lovely adaptation that honors Lois Lowry's vision and authority ... the film ... illuminates and explores the beauty, danger and pain of our free, creative lives. Plenty to talk about in families and other communities. Go see it.
Mitali Perkins
#56. Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are more boring to listen to or read about.
Dan Simmons
#57. If anything ail a man, so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even,- for that is the seat of sympathy,-he forthwith sets about reforming the world.
Henry David Thoreau
#58. I'm a phallus in pigtails, and there's blood on my nose, and my tissue is rotting where the rats chew my bones. And my eye sockets empty, see nothing but pain, I keep having this brainstorm about twelve times a day.
David Bowie
#59. Recovery begins with embracing our pain and taking the risk to share it with others. We do this by joining a group and talking about our pain.
John Bradshaw
#60. If you take racism away from certain people - I mean vitriolic racism as well as the sort of social racist - if you take that away, they may have to face something really terrible - misery, self-misery, and deep pain about who they are.
Toni Morrison
#61. I lied for years and years. And the thing about lies and secrets is that they eat you alive from the inside. I would not wish that pain on anyone.
Tyler Hamilton
#62. I now understand why humans smile. Forerunners have done all they can to banish smiles. Not all smiles are about greetings and joy. Some smile in shared pain.
Greg Bear
#63. In every guilty man, there is an element of innocence. This is what makes any absolute condemnation revolting. We do not think enough about pain Albert Camus
Robert Zaretsky
#64. I have not encouraged talk about man's holy privacy, although I do respect and defend man's right to have it.
Mie Hansson
#65. If you want to experience love, then you have to be ready for pain. One doesn't come without the other. If I didn't love you, I wouldn't have to worry about losing you. If you want laughter, expect tears.
Harlan Coben
#66. Are there some things we need to discuss or work on together?" "Do you have pain from your childhood?" "Is there anything we can do about it now?" "Can we heal together?
Karyl McBride
#68. The fundamental fact about all of us is that we're alive for a while but will die before long. This fact is the real root cause of all our anger and pain and despair. And you can either run from this fact or, by way of love, you can embrace it.
Jonathan Franzen
#69. Wisdom doesn't come easily or without a cost; in fact, wisdom often costs us dearly. Your wisdom will run about as deep as the pain that has cut you. There are very few shortcuts in life, if any.
Bryant McGill
#70. I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.
Meryl Streep
#71. If you're ever making a television show, don't cast smart actors because they are just a pain in the ass. The moment you start to bullshit them you've lost them, so you have to either know what you're talking about or when you don't talk to them.
Ray McKinnon
#72. Don't cry. Carry what you love about me with you; leave the pain behind.
Lauren Kate
#73. There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
Oscar Wilde
#74. She'd lived through something the rest of them could never imagine. So much torture and horror that she didn't need to tell people about it. She'd never need drama or joy or pain ever again.
Chuck Palahniuk
#75. What you said about the sweetest pain? That fits us.
Ann Aguirre
#76. When you love people, you give them a priority. You have a sense of urgency about their pain.
Cornel West
#77. I was dying. I knew it. At least the pain was gone. I wanted to tell him that I loved him. Then darkness overtook me ...
Colleen Houck
#78. Maybe learning to be human was about learning to live in pain, not trying to figure out how to live pain-free. (156)
Keith Ablow
#79. Christ, who came meek and mild to save us from pain and suffering, was the One who talked more about hell than any other person in Scripture.
D. James Kennedy
#80. Something about the joy and pain of that moment, something about the excruciating contrast, made me feel that no matter what happens now, my life has been worth it. What a ride.
Chris Crutcher
#81. She said I'd have to die," Valkyrie answered.
"Which you have already done," Nye nodded ... "The truly tragic thing about all of this," it said, "is that you won't feel any of the great pain I'm about to put you through.
Derek Landy
#82. But love isn't about causing pain for the person you care about,
Maya Banks
#83. Don't ever walk through a door first again, okay? And don't argue with me about it or accuse me of being chauvinistic. I don't ever want to see you in that kind of pain again.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#84. How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constructs our past to justify what we feel now. How each successive pain distorts the preceding.
Sherman Alexie
#85. He tried to get drunk, "to forget about life for awhile," as that old
Billy Joel song once said, but the scotch couldn't anesthetize his pain
and provide a retreat from the reality of his latest failures.
Keith Steinbaum
#86. When I was young, I remember having a particular pain about injustice. Suffering hurt me.
Maggie Q
#87. I just remembered something you said when we first talked. That your pain only went away when you started thinking about others." "Not just that," Ayub said. "But when I found God."
Karan Mahajan
#88. There is a thing about pain , it demends to be felt.
John Green
#89. Wouldn't it be easier keep your victim faceless?"
I shuddered. "Not a victim."
"What else do you call one hemmed in by fate?"
"Human," I said, bitterness creeping into my voice.
"What about guilt, then? Why open yourself to pain?"
"Guilt is what makes you accountable.
Roshani Chokshi
#90. People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.
Paul Theroux
#91. If anything ail a man," says Thoreau, "so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even ... he forthwith sets about reforming - the world."3
Eric Hoffer
#92. I have withdrawal pains about not getting to work the people (on the show).
Amy Poehler
#93. I'm not a conscious rapper, all those things we talk about, the struggle, the pain, the outlook to the future, keep your head up. I try to put all those positive things into a regular human character, which is myself.
J. Cole
#94. When you see and feel the sensations you are experiencing as sensations, pure and simple, you may see that these thoughts about the sensation are useless to you at that moment and that they can actually make things worse than they need be.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#95. I thought about how stupid it is, that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else, though desire brings with it such disappointment and pain. Humankind's history must be scored bloody with heartbreak. This hankering for affection is a blight upon us.
Sonya Hartnett
#96. The thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#97. I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last century. There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#98. The good renounce everything. The pure don't babble about sensual desires. Whether touched by pleasure or pain, the wise show no change of temper.
Gautama Buddha
#99. Thought, infinitesimal thought, calm thought, pain.
Later, he asked himself how he had entered the calm. He couldn't talk about it with himself. Only joy at feeling he was in harmony with the words: Later, he ...
Maurice Blanchot
#100. Most of the time, I wasn't interested in inflicting pain on myself and others unless it was in a way that would make people think about the way they act, the society they live in or the things they take for granted.
Marilyn Manson
