Top 100 Pain Causes Quotes
#1. Goals are the source of misery. An unattained goal causes pain, but actually achieving it brings only a brief satisfaction.
Matt Haig
#2. it's being branded a failure that causes the most pain; when 'failure' changes from being a verb to becoming a noun.
Anup Kochhar
#3. This imbalance causes resentments within the over-responsible and dependency with the irresponsible person and this dynamic becomes the destructive life-pattern not conducive to happy families.
David W. Earle
#4. Those desires that do not bring pain if they are not satisfied are not necessary; and they are easily thrust aside whenever to satisfy them appears difficult or likely to cause injury.
Epicurus
#5. You have no fixed self. This is only an illusion that causes you to feel pain and suffering.
Frederick Lenz
#6. How can anyone be called human, if being born a human being and growing in a human society, he does not recognise human values? You must see that you don't harm any living being. He alone is a redeemed being who causes no pain to others and avoids pain to himself.
Sathya Sai Baba
#7. Sacrifice that causes pain is no sacrifice at all. True sacrifice is joy-giving and uplifting.
Mahatma Gandhi
#8. The greatest evil is that which uses others for its own gratification, which forces change on others and causes pain for nothing more than its own pleasure.
Anonymous
#9. When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the suffering one, but on the contrary, come closer, as close as you can to her who suffers, and try to help her.
Leo Tolstoy
#10. Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant ...
Rainer Maria Rilke
#11. I never want to fall in love again,
Loneliness is vastly under rated.
On and off causes so much pain,
Vanity is why I still waited.
Every time I try to get close,
You close yet another door.
Our story is a ridiculous prose,
Understand I won't take anymore.
Ritoban Chakrabarti
#12. I have never sought to displease; I merely seek pleasure and avoid the pain it causes those who work to produce it. That is what it means to live by the leisure principle.
Bauvard
#13. You can't deny they ever happened. You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain
Judy Blume
#14. Nothing causes more pain, frustration, and disappointment than unfulfilled expectations.
Laura Lee Guhrke
#15. I have been recently diagnosed with Sjogren's Syndrome, an autoimmune disease which is an ongoing medical condition that affects my energy level and causes fatigue and joint pain.
Venus Williams
#17. It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on it that causes pain ... A day when I don't write is less happy. This is not discipline. It is affection, enthusiasm, adventure-any number of other words besides discipline.
Julia Cameron
#18. An emotion does not cause pain. Resistance or suppression of emotion causes pain.
Frederick Dodson
#19. Every man aims at avoiding what causes him pain; the activities of government ultimately consist in the infliction of pain. All great achievements of mankind were the product of a spontaneous effort on the part of individuals; government substitutes coercion for voluntary action.
Ludwig Von Mises
#20. Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#21. It is our duty never to speak ill of others, you know; least of all when we know that to do so will be the cause of much pain and trouble.
George Gissing
#22. Domestic violence causes far more pain than the visible marks of bruises and scars. It is devastating to be abused by someone that you love and think loves you in return. It is estimated that approximately 3 million incidents of domestic violence are reported each year in the United States.
Dianne Feinstein
#23. A wise man sees the path all must walk and embraces the free will of humankind, even if to watch it unfold causes him pain.
Colleen Houck
#24. Our way of thinking causes us more pain than all our misfortunes.
Marty Rubin
#25. Causes (pains) are not logical constructions out of their effects (behaviour).
Hilary Putnam
#26. Avoiding pain causes endless suffering for you and others. Avoiding pain is really selfishness.
Bryant McGill
#27. A man in love is cautious with the decisions he makes, words he says and actions he takes, so he never purposefully causes her pain. He believes in her when she struggles believing in herself. He is her foundation, where she feels safe to be her true self.
Elizabeth Bourgeret
#28. No one honest has an easy life, and its aching for one that causes the most pain.
James Kidd
#29. Seeing other people in pain causes me pain.
Julia Stiles
#30. Every time meditators try to control their thoughts or feelings, they are identifying personally (atta) with it and this causes more pain and frustration.
Bhante Vimalaramsi
#31. Now now Ellindt, you know I love it when you beg." Chuckling silently, every jolt from my hold causes her hands pulsating pain, and I bend to speak intimately into her ear again, "But I love it more when you scream.
Poppet
#32. Our memories of our loved ones are the pearl we form around the grain of grief that causes us pain.
Jeff Zentner
#33. A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#34. Pause and remember - Making the wrong assumptions causes pain and suffering for everyone.
Jennifer Young
#35. Thinking that we can find some lasting pleasure and avoid pain is what in Buddhism is called samsara, a hopeless cycle that goes round and round endlessly and causes us to suffer greatly.
Pema Chodron
#36. [Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you
Eckhart Tolle
#37. For both the offender and the victim, the pain is there, often unacknowledged and that is when it can cause harm through festering. When I ignore a physical wound, it does not go away. No, it festers and goes bad.
Desmond Tutu
#38. Wounded parents often unintentionally inflict pain and suffering on their children and these childhood wounds causes a laundry list of maladaptive behaviors commonly called codependency. These habits restrict people to love-limiting relationships causing much unhappiness and distress.
David W. Earle
#39. Ignorance causes pain, but awareness creates happiness. Therefore, look for enlightenment every day.
Linda Alfiori
#40. Most of us need time to work through pain and loss. We can find all manner of reasons for postponing forgiveness. One of these reasons is waiting for the wrongdoers to repent before we forgive them. Yet such a delay causes us to forfeit the peace and happiness that could be ours.
James E. Faust
#41. If what has happened makes us happy, we call it "good." If it causes pain, we call it "bad.
Bruce Van Horn
#42. Why should one ever get pain? One is the Absolute Supreme Self (parmatma), how can one have any pain? It is the egoism that causes pain and it is also the egoism that suffers the pain! The absolute Supreme Self doesn't have any suffering!
Dada Bhagwan
#43. Workdays are, I imagine, rather like learning to ice-skate Torvill and Dean's The Bolero. They start and end easily enough; it's the bit in the middle that causes the pain in the arse.
Fennel Hudson
#44. Than Blood Spilling Wounds,The Words Of Hatred From Your Loved One's Causes You More Pain
Nithin Kumar
#45. The pain that we cause is the cause of our pain.
Leif Erikson
#46. It is ignorance that smothers, and it is carelessness that makes it invisible. The hunger of craving pollutes the world, and the pain of suffering causes the greatest fear.
Gautama Buddha
#47. I think that when you reveal things that are going to cause pain, you have rhetorical resources in poetry.
Vijay Seshadri
#48. Extinction, the irrevocable loss of a species, causes pain that can never find relief. It is an ache that will pass from generation to generation for the rest of human history.
Callum Roberts
#49. True love is love that causes us pain, that hurts, and yet brings us joy. That is why we must pray to God and ask Him to give us the courage to love
Mother Teresa
#50. My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
Tony Robbins
#51. 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
#52. What good is faith if it causes pain for another? What good is religion if it does no good? What good is any belief that leads to hate?
Jared Brock
#53. What causes misery is always trying to get away from the facts of life, always trying to avoid pain and seek happiness - this sense of ours that there could be lasting security and happiness available to us if we could only do the right thing.
Pema Chodron
#54. It's the failure to see this planet as a single entity that causes so much pain so many times. You cannot attack one part of the world without it affecting the whole earth, the whole body. Attacking other cultures, other nations, is a self-destructive act. It always comes back on you in some way.
Gorillaz
#55. We all hate pain and suffering but nothings causes humanity to progress quicker than it!
Timothy Pina
#56. Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting.
Nancy Gibbs
#57. RVM's Thought for the Day - If something happens that causes you pain, remind yourself that you can't get the Rainbow without a little Rain.
R.v.m.
#58. The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#59. It is rooted deep in your bones; the water calls out to you until it causes you physical pain unless you come to it.
Nadia Scrieva
#60. Sin of any kind grieves the Holy Spirit, but that form of it which finds expression in bitterness towards another child of God causes Him special pain.
Patrick Fung
#61. Our thoughts and desires are based in hope, but our behaviors are based in fear. This misalignment often causes a feeling of hopelessness and continues the cycle of feeding outdated ideologies and Guru genres offering gimmicks to anesthetize the pain.
Steve Maraboli
#62. Memories begin to creep forward from hidden corners of your mind. Passing disappointments. Lost chances and lost causes. Heartbreaks and pain and desolate, horrible loneliness. Sorrows you thought long forgotten mingle with still-fresh wounds.
Erin Morgenstern
#63. In contrast to modern art, which causes displeasure-modern art, by definition, hurts. In this precise sense, modern art is sublime: it causes pleasure-in-pain, it produces its effect through its own failure, insofar as it refers to the impossible Things.
Slavoj Zizek
#64. I fear that I am losing my mind. But really, it would not be such a precious thing to lose, as it only causes me pain.
L.A. Meyer
#65. If something happens that causes you Pain, remind yourself that you can't get the Rainbow without a little Rain.-RVM
R.v.m.
#66. I will give you more pain than you can imagine. Your brains will leak out of your ears, and your bowels out of your ass. I will cause that to happen without leaving a mark, and every cop here will swear you died of natural causes.
J.D. Robb
#68. Man is the only animal which causes pain to others with no other object than causing pain ... No animal ever torments another for the sake of tormenting: but man does so, and it is this which constitutes the diabolical nature which is far worse than the merely bestial
Arthur Schopenhauer
#69. Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
Vernon Howard
#70. Looking behind causes nothing but broken spells and wasted pain
Cassandra Clare
#71. This is the sum of duty: do naught to others which if done to thee, would cause thee pain.
Vyasa
#72. Sometimes love cut so deep it causes terrible pain, or crosses paths with the joy of his present experiences.
Kathleen Bittner Roth
#73. Change requires leaving our comfort zones and plunging headfirst into uncomfortable situations. It's true this causes some pain and discomfort for a moment, but it's the quickest path to generating long-term fulfillment.
Yehuda Berg
#74. It causes me great pain to sue the company I work for. Nevertheless, I had to do it. Suffice it to say, there's a dispute and I believe I haven't been given what is mine.
Howard Stern
#75. But doesn't love cause too much pain?" she said. "To be worth it?" "It causes pain, indeed," Grumpy said. "But it's worth it. It's a good pain.
Odette Beane
#76. A person who thinks he is right, causes great hurt to others and that is why hurt will come to him. A person who believes 'I am right', causes a lot of pain to others.
Dada Bhagwan
#77. The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
Saint Ignatius
#78. The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and suffering.
Frederick Lenz
#79. Not asking questions: Giving up on your dreams: Settling for less than you deserve causes you pain, a pain owned by the majority.
Be among the few who are inquisitive, forge plans to chase their dreams and take intentional action to live the life aligned with their potential.
Tony Curl
#80. Every time we sin, it causes chaos in our lives; maybe not at that very moment, but eventually it always catches up
Robin Bertram
#81. This is an execution, not surgery. Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the least pain?
Antonin Scalia
#82. Of course we all suffer,' Priya often told her. 'But if you cling to suffering or fight it then it will hold on like a rat. If you accept it's existence and the pain it causes you, then you can release it'.
Kate Elliott
#83. You should therefore never reveal what causes you pain or pleasure, so that the former may quickly end and the latter long continue.
Baltasar Gracian
#84. I'm not going to stop torturing myself till I figure out the cause of my pain.
Matt Groening
#85. Can we quantify failure in degrees and say, 'on a 10 point scale this failure causes this much pain?' Extremely difficult.
Anup Kochhar
#87. I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
William S. Burroughs
#88. We who are like senseless children shrink from suffering, but love its causes. We hurt ourselves; our pain is self-inflicted! Why should others be the object of our anger?
Santideva
#89. The idea that Love Must Be Tough dictates that we be willing to set another person free- even if it causes us great pain to let go. When we do this, we maximize the chances that that loved one will not leave, because the cage door has been opened and self-respect has been affirmed.
James Dobson
#90. From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains; These first induce him the vile trash to try, Then lend his name, that other men may buy.
George Crabbe
#91. Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.
Freya Stark
#92. When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.
Byron Katie
#93. Sometimes, truth causes pain and suffering. At such times, silence is preferred.
Amish Tripathi
#94. I never thought I had a heart until it was broken. It's hard to see the point of something that only ever causes pain.
Dan Wells
#95. A person's memories and their actual experiences are surprisingly different. Sometimes the gap between them causes pain. But the memories that make the biggest impression are always changing. So it's okay.
Sakura Tsukuba
#96. When we die, the money we can't keep, but we probably spend it all cause the pain ain't cheap.
Kanye West
#97. Real love lasts years. It causes pain, and endures through it.
N.K. Jemisin
#98. Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.
Aristotle.
#99. I'm especially interested in relationships since that is a part of life that causes enormous pain for many people.
Shakti Gawain
#100. The world is not against you, but the world is a place where bad things happen. It's just true. Airlines crash, people do evil things. A lot of bad things happen and it causes pain.
Philip Yancey
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