Top 86 Painless Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Painless

#1. Fear of dying must surely mean fear of how one dies. If one can be assured of a painless death, how can one fear it, unless one is a religious fanatic with a very guilty conscience?

Dimitris Mita

#2. I promised to touch your soul. I never said it would be painless.

Nicole Lyons

#3. It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd rather spend my energy smiling.

Eric Davis

#4. To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.

Mark Twain

#5. Shouldn't letting go be painless if you've never learned how to hold on?

David Levithan

#6. Why write poetry? For the weird unemployment. / For the painless headaches, that must be tapped to strike / down along your writing arm at the accumulated moment. / For the adjustments after, aligning facets in a verb / before the trance leaves you. For working always beyond / your own intelligence.

Les Murray

#7. Hurting with you is better than a painless life without you.

L. H. Cosway

#8. We are not in the home finding business, although it is certainly true that we do find homes from time to time for the kind of animals people are looking for. Our service is to provide a peaceful and painless death to animals who no one wants.

Ingrid Newkirk

#9. She was humming something melancholy and familiar. I strained to make it out - a folk song? a lullabye? - and then realized it was the theme to M*A*S*H. Suicide is painless. I went downstairs.

Gillian Flynn

#10. Latin American republics were among the first to discover that it was relatively painless to default when a substantial proportion of bondholders were foreign.

Niall Ferguson

#11. That tug against my heart, the painless, invisible cord trying to pull me forward, rips something from me like the shirt being torn from my back, and I scream as part of me is left behind.

Celine Kiernan

#12. The most politically painless way to hand out goodies, without taking responsibility for their costs, is to pass a law saying that somebody else must provide those goodies at their expense, while the politicians take credit for generosity and compassion.

Thomas Sowell

#13. There a painless death awaits him who can no longer bear the sorrows of this life. If death is welcome let him seek it there.

Robert W. Chambers

#14. Fact One: Cataract surgery is simple, painless and (except with implants) risk free ... the whole procedure is common, routine and nothing to worry about. Fact Two: Fact One applies only to cataracts on the eyes in somebody else's head.

Helene Hanff

#15. If a happy ending is what you're after, stop the story where it makes you smile, or cry for laughter. In life, it's the rare sweetness to have tears of joy, or painless endings. People feel. It's what they know, and it's why i write.

Mark T. Barnes

#16. Painless preaching is as good a term as any for what we do.

Curtis Mayfield

#17. Integrity is never painless.

M. Scott Peck

#18. For the painful essence of withdrawal does not reside in the present suffering it brings - withdrawal is painless on the level of the immediate moment - but in the prospect of suffering to come, the rich future that one can imagine one's torture enjoying.

Jean-Philippe Toussaint

#19. You are freakishly tall, aren't you? (Tory)
For a woman wanting my help you are ever determined to insult me. Should I make this as painless as possible and leave now before the die-painfully-you-asshole-prick stuff starts again? (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#20. If you turn into a hideous monster and I am sent to slay you, I will remember this and make it as painless as I can, out of respect for you.

Jim Butcher

#21. To lose everything at such a glorious eternity is far sweeter than to win by plodding through a cautious, painless, featureless life.

Laurence Gonzales

#22. It is important that our relationship with farm animals is reciprocal. We owe animals a decent life and a painless death. I have observed that the people who are completely out of touch with nature are the most afraid of death ...

Temple Grandin

#23. Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

George Eliot

#24. Some people find the cravenness to lose entire years of their childhood. They tuck things into their subconscious so that it only eats them away a little at a time, in small, painless bites.

Blake Crouch

#25. He was past the jitters about her age, her uncle. He was moving on this. And when it was over, he was going to be shot, he was pretty sure. But he was into her; she had him. He hoped his death would be quick and painless.

Robyn Carr

#26. The sales tax is the best and most equitable tax. The gasoline tax, which is nothing but a sales tax, has proven painless, productive and punitive. Everything we buy should have its equal proportion of tax, outside of cheap food and cheap clothes.

Will Rogers

#27. Crooked Warden," said Locke, "men are stupid. Protect us from ourselves. If you can't, let it be quick and painless.

Scott Lynch

#28. We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search. If the 'World Spirit' touches you, do not expect that it will be painless.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

#29. Painful life is brutal and painless life is superficial.

Kedar Joshi

#30. Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#31. Some lessons are painful, some are painless.. but, all are priceless.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#32. Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#33. It was more likely that they would lose consciousness from the gee forces first - a relatively painless way to go.

Neal Stephenson

#34. Because there's no formal etiquette for ending a friendship, most people do it in the laziest, most passive and painless way possible, by unilaterally dropping any effort to sustain it and letting the other person figure it out for themselves. (I

Tim Kreider

#35. Most breast cancer-related deaths can be prevented through simple and painless preventive measures. A late diagnosis can result in more serious, long-term consequences.

Olympia Snowe

#36. To bite off your shadow is neither easy nor painless. It demands a single-mindedness that is almost unknown in this day.

Neil Gaiman

#37. When old folks laugh,
they consider the promise
of dear painless death, and generously
forgive life for happening
to them.

Maya Angelou

#38. But pain ... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?

Lois McMaster Bujold

#39. I used a new mixture. The ingredients are a bit harder to find, but for my favourite patients I like to make sure the healing process is as painless as possible."
"I'm on that list?" Valkyrie asked, her smile growing wider.
Kenspeckle snorted. "You are the list.

Derek Landy

#40. I've found that festivals are a relatively painless way to meet people and make a few points that need making, without having to hit them over the head with too many speeches.

Pete Seeger

#41. I grew up in a family that was very barbed and difficult, and there was a lot of humor. None of it was painless humor. All of it was at someone else's expense. It was kind of always about power.

John Wells

#42. Although I had no regrets, I told myself sadly that growing up was not the painless process one would have thought it to be.

Maya Angelou

#43. Liposuction isn't an option, because I don't have any fat under my skin. The solution? ReFirme, which is painless

Carnie Wilson

#44. If simple, painless solutions to public problems existed, they would have been found long ago.

Alice Rivlin

#45. THE MARVELLOUS THING IS THAT IT'S painless," he said. "That's how you know when it starts.

Ernest Hemingway,

#46. You have two seconds to tell me what the fuck you did to her, or I start carving you up into tiny pieces. And it won't be quick and it won't be painless. I'll make you bleed and suffer, but you won't die. You'll only wish you had, Skylar spat.

Maya Banks

#47. Being dead wasn't supposed to hurt. Where was the fairness in that? If I was dead, the least the universe could do was make it painless

Kiersten White

#48. There was no fast and painless way to perform an amputation, Tessia knew. Not if you did it properly.

Trudi Canavan

#49. This is what she'd always wanted. A painless life.

Edan Lepucki

#50. They don't make fairy godmothers like they used to. Whatever happened to the painless wave of a wand? Or did they simply leave these details out? Did Cinderella get a Brazilian? No one ever talks about what was going on under that dress.

Ruth Cardello

#51. Depression is the feeling of someone whispering in your ear and telling you that you are worthless. Every time you make a mistake, you keep getting reminded of it, it's never painless. From these mistakes, it makes you reckless. Now you ask yourself, is my life priceless or worthless ?

Unknown

#52. Even if abortion were made easy or painless for everyone, it wouldn't change the bottom-line problem that abortion kills children.

Randy Alcorn

#53. And the elephant sings deep in the forest-maze
About a star of deathless and painless peace
But no astronomer can find where it is.

Ted Hughes

#54. When you have a big, ugly problem, there's never going to be a neat, elegant solution that is totally painless or without a cost.

Henry Paulson

#55. Self-discipline is a rigorous process at best; too many of us want it to be effortless and painless.

Thomas S. Monson

#56. We learn something when someone passes through our lives. Some lessons are painful. Some lessons are painless & some lessons are priceless.

Srinivas Shenoy

#57. Love is never convenient-and rarely painless

Richard Paul Evans

#58. Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself.

Ingrid Newkirk

#59. There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.

Adam Gopnik

#60. The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.

Katharine Whitehorn

#61. It's better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.

John Ortberg

#62. Sex with an ex
Is it ever really painless or just inviting stress?
I mean, really
Who does that?
Oh wait, I'm sure if they could, most everyone would ...

Natasha Ramsey

#63. When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.

Vincent Cassel

#64. A painless lesson is one without any meaning, one who does not sacrifice anything cannot achieve anything.

Hiromu Arakawa

#65. unwinding is, by law, painless.

Neal Shusterman

#66. ( ... ) The new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Specch, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and Astronomy for the People.

James Joyce

#67. I know of no painless process for giving birth to a picture idea. When I must produce, I retire to a quiet room with a supply of cheap paper and sharp pencils; my brain knows it's going to take a beating.

Norman Rockwell

#68. He leaned down until his lips brushed her ear. "I told you to stop flinching." And then he bit her. A slow, painless nip but there were definitely teeth involved.

Nalini Singh

#69. I am convinced that people with such wounds will be quite ready to co-operate in a safe and painless experiment in the interests of humanity as a whole.

Robert Barany

#70. Cry freely and let your tears fall for a life without tears is like a life without heartache weaking and painless

Laura Clark

#71. I just want to die, says Mr. K, and have everything be happy and painless. Forever.

Chuck Palahniuk

#72. God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation for the profusion of gods and religions, and the fratricide both between and among faiths, that we see all about us and that has so retarded the development of civilization.

Christopher Hitchens

#73. The idea that what had happened could be erased, that the burden that was on her now could be lifted, that the past could be restored and could make its way effortlessly into a painless present.

Colm Toibin

#74. So those pills that offered painless relief stayed stored on the shelf, out of the strength of her reach, high atop the altar of platitudes.

J.R. Hamantaschen

#75. This weapon [an ax] is primitive but effective. And it's also guaranteed to be fifty-percent painless. You see, it takes two people to operate, and the person at this end [the handle] doesn't feel a thing.

Alfred Hitchcock

#76. I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals a decent life and we've got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect.

Temple Grandin

#77. Cam gave him a halfhearted boot on the top of his head with the heel of one hand. "Why don't you shut
up until I say what I have to say?"
The painless smack and impatient order were more comforting to Seth than a thousand promises.

Nora Roberts

#78. Life here is so orderly, so predictable-so painless. It's what they've chosen.

Lois Lowry

#79. I don't know how you say good-bye to whom and what you love. I don't know a painless way to do it, don't know the words to capture a heart so full and a longing so intense.

Laura Wiess

#80. Disintegration is quite painless, I assure you.

H.P. Lovecraft

#81. Yes! live life with every fibre of one's being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.

Emile Zola