Top 100 Only Pain Quotes
#1. I had to face: I had chosen. My choice, this was love. I had chosen I think the way out of the chains of the cage. I needed this woman. Without her to choose over myself, there was only pain and not choosing, rolling drunkenly and making fantasies of death.
David Foster Wallace
#2. There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
R.D. Laing
#3. Sometimes only pain can obliterate pain.
Alma Katsu
#4. I'm beginning to think that life is about passing moments and small celebrations. Without them there's only pain, fear, ambition, and, for some of us, foolish hope.
Kyra Davis
#5. beyond ideology and ambition, beyond thought and emotion, there was only pain. And salvation from it.
Dan Simmons
#6. An open mind is like to an open wound. Vulnerable to poison. Liable to fester. Apt to give its owner only pain.
Joe Abercrombie
#7. What if?..
What if I am all to see?
What if life is only this? And Ignorance is bliss?
What if love is only pain? And nothing can be gained by living everyday
And there is no better way?
What then?
Melody Carlson
#9. The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#10. FIRST CIRCLE. Here they find the VIRTUOUS PAGANS. They were born without the light of Christ's revelation, and, therefore, they cannot come into the light of God, but they are not tormented. Their only pain is that they have no hope.
Dante Alighieri
#11. There is no way to learn endurance other than simply to endure. We can't learn it in principle or in theory; only pain can teach it to us.
Chris Tiegreen
#12. The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.
Anne Rice
#13. Cancer was a merciless executioner. It stripped away dignity and autonomy, leaving only pain and horror in its wake.
Catie Rhodes
#14. I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat. I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
Agnes Smedley
#15. True baseball fans do not cheer for their teams to win; they cheer for them not to lose. Victory does not come with joy, it comes with relief. Losing causes only pain.
Will Leitch
#16. It's only pain which leads us to achieve something special.
Anonymous
#17. Here's a good test to know whether or not truth-telling springs from love. Truth will not only pain those who hear it; it will pain those who speak it. If we don't love someone, it won't hurt at all to speak truth. We'll tell them what we think with no regard for their feelings. If
Philip Gulley
#18. As I walk through This wicked world Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity, I ask myself Is all hope lost? Is there only pain and hatred, and misery? And each time I feel like this inside, There's one thing I wanna know: What's so funny 'bout Peace, Love, & Understanding?
Elvis Costello
#19. Only pain makes it grow stronger. One sorrow makes it kind. Contentment makes it wither, and joy seems to build walls around it. The heart is perverse, and it is cruel. I hate the heart and seems to hate me.
Douglas Coupland
#20. Pain is our only connection with life; only pain can reveal what life is.
Roberto Bolano
#21. Pain is only pain after all; it lets us know we survived." - Captain Roke
Sandra C. Stixrude
#22. Love should bring joy, it should grant a person peace, but here and not, it was bringing only pain.
Nicholas Sparks
#23. Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to kindness and wisdom we make promises only; pain we obey.
Marcel Proust
#24. If you like happiness, then worship that wherein happiness is inherent. Happiness is in God. God is an abode of infinite bliss. If you worship the inanimate (the non-Self, [Jad]), then you will have pain because there is only pain in the inanimate.
Dada Bhagwan
#25. If the world were only pain and logic, who would want it?
Mary Oliver
#26. It's only pain, it will not hurt you.
Bas Rutten
#27. The sufferer who keeps looking for God has, in the end, privileged knowledge. ... She passes through a door that only pain will open, and is thus qualified to speak of God in a way that others, whom we generally call more fortunate, cannot speak. (pg. 122)
Ellen F. Davis
#28. How terrible
to see the truth when the truth is only pain to him who sees!
Sophocles
#29. Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.
Ivan Illich
#30. A lack of love is the cause for most problems in life, when love is missing, nothing can flourish, only pain thrives.
Leon Brown
#32. Only pain can define the meaning of tears.
Munia Khan
#33. Happiness can make us feel big and sure of ourselves, but only pain gives us depth.
Christopher Pike
#34. Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
Marcel Proust
#36. The facts of our lives, when we are able to know them, will free us from the torment we are in. When we can bear reality thoroughly, suffering is over. Pain may exist, but it is only pain. Suffering is what we add to pain.
Brenda Shoshanna
#37. Biddy was never insulting, or capricious, or Biddy to-day and somebody else to-morrow; she would have derived only pain, and no pleasure, from giving me pain; she would far rather have wounded her own breast than mine. How could it be, then, that I did not like her much the better of the two?
Charles Dickens
#38. Sometimes there is no hope," whispered Das.
"There's always some hope, Mr. Das."
"No, Mr. Luczak, there is not. Sometimes there is only pain. And acquiescence to pain. And, perhaps, defiance at the world which demands such pain."
"Defiance is a form of hope, is it not, sir?
Dan Simmons
#39. Because our brain's resources are limited, we are left with a choice: to use those finite resources to see only pain, negativity, stress, and uncertainty, or to use those resources to look at things through a lens of gratitude, hope, resilience, optimism, and meaning.
Shawn Achor
#40. I don't understand the human heart. Only pain makes it grow stronger. Only sorrow makes it kind. Contentment makes it wither, and joy seems to build walls around it.
Douglas Coupland
#41. But we were different now. I wanted only his pain, and judging from the girl he'd come home with last night, Madoc was still the same. A user.
Penelope Douglas
#42. Pain beneath every breath is the only reason of someones lifelong success.
Vishal Bhojwani
#43. They don't know the meaning of danger or fear or pain. It's only their pride that can be truly hurt.
Victoria Aveyard
#44. You have no fixed self. This is only an illusion that causes you to feel pain and suffering.
Frederick Lenz
#45. 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.
Anthony Hopkins
#46. 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
#47. The idea of caring is that someone is making money faster [than you are] is one of the deadly sins. Envy is a really stupid sin because it's the only one you could never possibly have any fun at. There's a lot of pain and no fun. Why would you want to get on that trolley?
Charlie Munger
#49. Did you know the following surprising facts? "Surgery has been found to be helpful in only 1 in 100 cases of low back pain.
Fred Amir
#50. Keep me preoccupied Keep me busy, busy, busy So I won't have to think I don't want to think Because it only brings me pain I just keep running away from My problems Keep me busy Give me a million things to do So I can keep running away from myself.
Henry Rollins
#51. I decry the injustice of my wounds, only to look down and see that I am holding a smoking gun in one hand and a fistful of ammunition in the other.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#52. The Atonement has not only helped me be cleansed, and be healed, but it has also helped me live.
Jayda Skidmore
#53. You can only trust your emotions as you can lie to yourself with your brain but not your heart.
Carl White
#54. Happiness not only needs no justification, but it is also the only final test of whether what I am doing is right for me. Only of course happiness is not the same as pleasure; it includes the pain of losing as well as the pleasure of finding.
Marion Milner
#55. Beyond the pain, anger and unforgiveness, there is only one thing; love. This is where the magic happens
Renae A. Sauter
#56. What if we go on,' he said, 'only to more pain and despair? What if we go on, only to find a horrible friend waiting for us?'
Aelin looked northward, as if she could see all the way to Terrasen. 'Then it is not the end.
Sarah J. Maas
#57. 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
#58. I know any move I would make toward Darius, any act of recognition, would only result in punishment for him. So we just stare into each other's eyes. Darius, now a mute slave; me, now headed to death. What would we say, anyway? That we're sorry for the other's lot? That we ache for the other's pain?
Suzanne Collins
#59. ADAM AND EVE, sitting in Paradise, chatting:
"If we could only open the gate and leave," says Eve.
"To go where, my dearest?"
"If we could only open the gate and leave!"
"Outside is sickness, pain, death!"
"If we could only open the gate and leave!
Nikos Kazantzakis
#60. The only thing that will make us remain glued to being the victim is our failure to handle the emotions that we go through and the pain that overcomes us.
Stephen Richards
#61. If something is to stay in the memory it must be burned in: only that which never ceases hurting stays in the memory.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#62. Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain.
Bill Crawford
#63. It's like a door open at the side of the house and this cool breeze is blowing in over the back of my neck. The breeze is Death whispering and that door is open for me to go through anytime I want. And I want to go through. I want the confusion to stop
no, not only confusion but pain too.
Walter Mosley
#64. I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damn thing. It only leads to violence and pain.
Daniel Keyes
#65. We can laugh from either joy or happiness, but we weep only from grief or joy ... Without the pain of farewell, there is no joy in reunion ... without the pain of captivity, we don't experience the joy of freedom.
George Vaillant
#66. If your life is based around your being comfortable, you're not very comfortable. You suffer quite a bit - becuase in the realm of the senses there is not only pleasure, but there is pain.
Frederick Lenz
#67. Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows in perception if not in reality. The best response to terror is righteous anger, confidence in ultimate justice, a refusal to be intimidated.
Dean Koontz
#68. Words don't get written from a heart that's never felt. They come from pain, from love, from unspeakable depths - and they were my only release.
Kandi Steiner
#69. Shawn Carter was born December 4th,
Weighing in at 10 pounds, 8 ounces.
He was the last of my 4 children,
The only one who didn't give me any pain when I gave birth to him.
... And that's how I knew that he was a special child.
Gloria Carter Spann
#70. When pain and suffering come upon us, we finally see not only that we are not in control of our lives but that we never were.
Timothy Keller
#71. You are working up to Mr. Fantastic Fiction levels of Zombie Expert, which is like playing Guitar Hero on some level that actually melts the guitar controller, burning your fingers with searing hot plastic till you scream in pain. Only with words. And zombies.
Libba Bray
#72. Everything turns on pain; the rest is accessory, even nonexistent, for we remember only what hurts. Painful sensations being the only real ones, it is virtually useless to experience others.
Emile M. Cioran
#73. Instead, I'm met with the only familiar sensation my heart is capable of feeling: pain
Colleen Hoover
#74. It makes you crazy. Waiting for someone to love you, to come to you and only you, to choose you like you've already chosen, is the most degrading, debasing, demoralising ... and yet, sweet, sweet pain there is. It's as humbling aas it is humiliating. But yes, there is a sweet side.
Pamela Ribon
#75. The truth hurts, only when it can heal.
Rob Liano
#76. All the logic in the world could not blunt the pain. Logic could not blunt her terrible sense of personal failure. Only time would do those things, and time would do an imperfect job.
Stephen King
#77. Aeduan didn't contradict her. She was what she was, and fighting one's nature only brought pain. Sometimes death too.
Susan Dennard
#78. I'm caught up in the system where the blind lead the blind
And this artist only speaks on the Signs of the Time.
And I pop pills in Purple Rain to state my pain,
They say I'm just like my father, bold and too cold.
Beanie Sigel
#79. In the end you will be broken and obey; the only question that remains is how much pain are you willing to endure before accepting the fact?
Johnny Stone
#80. I had nothing left to give.
I not only had nothing left to give, I just had nothing.
And I was going to keep it that way.
If you had nothing, you couldn't feel more pain because you had nothing left to lose.
Kristen Ashley
#81. The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.
Richard Paul Evans
#82. Some people are as angry as they seem to be only because it's the safest place to hide from more pain.
Ashly Lorenzana
#83. Emotions are raised in us, not only by the qualities and actions of others, but also by their feelings. I cannot behold a man in distress, without partaking of his pain; nor in joy, without partaking of his pleasure.
Henry Home, Lord Kames
#84. As cold as everything looks in winter, the sun has not forsaken us. He has only drawn away for a little, for good reasons, one of which is that we may learn that we cannot do without him.
George MacDonald
#85. Lights, bright enough to dilate her eyes. Horns, flaccid and come too late. Metal crumpling like tissue. The body was not in pain but only because the body was gone, elsewhere. Yes, Daniel thinks just after impact but before death, like that. The passage hadn't been as bad as he had thought.
Gabrielle Zevin
#86. I hear a thunder in the distance; see a vision of the cross. I feel the pain that was given on a sad day of loss. Only He holds the key: a light to free me from my burden and grant me life eternally.
Scott Stapp
#87. As this pain comes up also focus on the love you feel for him/her. Focus on the love. Love feels good, love is expansive. Love is open and accepting. This love you feel is healing the pain of your loss. One day soon your pain will go and only the love will remain.
John Gray
#88. Sometimes my life here felt like a cage where I could never escape the pain. At other times it felt like the only firm ground on earth
Jennifer Castle
#89. A disease which new and obscure to you, Doctor, will be known only after death; and even then not without an autopsy will you examine it with exacting pains. But rare are those among the extremely busy clinicians who are willing or capable of doing this correctly.
Herman Boerhaave
#90. This is the crazed, manic energy of the bull at the end of the fight, fatally wounded but ploughing ahead, driven only by pain and anger and the mindless will to go on living.
Jonathan Coe
#91. Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.
Jeremy Bentham
#92. I know what you were searching for. The same thing I want.
To live without pain.
But the only way to live without pain is to live without feeling. Or to not live.
Leah Raeder
#93. It is weird to see how people sometimes doesn't value and ignore the love and effort of the people who love them and try to stay. They push them away only to realise everything they did after they leave and make their memories as pillows to sleep over and cry upon it later.
Akshay Vasu
#94. Change the world, I know I won't,
Enthralling as always I hope it remains,
A kaleidoscope of joy, sorrow and pain.
But my only wish as I take this jaunt,
Is for my words on you to impress upon,
A smile, a tear or even an angry frown.
Anurag Anand
#95. Humans create terrible things. Why do they make things that only bring them pain? It's because they don't know what's comfortable anymore. So perhaps they don't know that they are in pain ...
CLAMP
#97. The world only mattered because people lived there and sometimes, in spite of the pain, tragedy, and degradation, even managed to triumph there.
Mark Z. Danielewski
#98. My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. There's no version of God that can help us if we ever lose that.
Neal Shusterman
#99. For them, the last option was to have brain surgery, which involved removing parts of the skull and exposing the brain. (Since the brain has no pain sensors, a person can be conscious during this entire procedure, so Dr. Penfield used only a local anesthetic during the operation.)
Michio Kaku
#100. Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
John Stuart Mill
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