That Pain Quotes

#1. Not that pain is the worst thing in the universe. Interesting things happen when you adapt pain for your own. This thing you were prepared to spend your life flinching from is suddenly just another piece of information.

Shelley Jackson

#2. I am not "cured"
I know I never will be. I will always crave that pain to keep me centered. I will always be just a little astounded when I get through a crisis without putting a blade to my flesh.

J. Kenner

#3. From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved.

Louise Gluck

#4. We forget that sometimes there is something greater than our pain. That's the pain of the person who loves us, who couldn't protect us from that pain.

Joey W. Hill

#5. I share that pain. Those events have sparked anger, resentment, further division. I empathise with your anger. I understand your resentment. More than anything, I seek to heal that division.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#6. I wonder if anybody else feels this way, if anyone in here is as scared as I am. Are they as sad and angry and confused and ashamed? Is that even possible? Is it even possible for one building to hold all that pain?

Amy Reed

#7. Rosewood is what Americans did to Americans. We have to hold the mirror up ... and look at ourselves. Sometimes that's an ugly sight. And sometimes you have to go through that pain - both black America and white America - so we can finally find some racial harmony.

Ving Rhames

#8. Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

Joseph Addison

#9. It is also lonely on a level that cannot be conveyed ... If a person in physical pain has a hard time attending to anything except that pain, a clinically depressed person cannot even perceive any other person or thing as independent of the universal pain that is digesting her cell by cell.

David Foster Wallace

#10. That agony, that pain, that struggle, that rejection takes you to the place of grasping your dreams.

Euginia Herlihy

#11. When people get hurt,they learn to hate ... when people hurt others,they become hated and racked with guilt.But knowing that pain allows people to be kind.Pain allows people to grow ... and how you grow is up to you.

Woody

#12. And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing.

Ricardo Montalban

#13. The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the easy life of the gods would be a lifeless life.

Hannah Arendt

#14. Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.

Seneca The Younger

#15. When you're growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you've let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put him on such a high pedestal and he lets you down, you never want to experience that pain again.

Jay-Z

#16. We can't prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#17. Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain.

Federico Fellini

#18. I guess you get to a point where you look at that pain as if it were in front of you three feet away lying in a box, an open box, in a window somewhere. It's hard and cold, like a bar of metal. You just look at it there and say, Alright, I'll take it, I'll buy it. That's what it is.

Lydia Davis

#19. She found a dark satisfaction in pain - because that pain came from him.

Ayn Rand

#20. If being with Tate for a few short months can make that pain bearable enough for you to answer with maybe, imagine what a lifetime with her could do for you.

Colleen Hoover

#21. It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering. I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence.

Ayn Rand

#22. The boy Prewitt loved the songs because they gave him something, a first hint that pain might not be pointless if you could only turn it into something.

James Jones

#23. Illness was admirable training in the creative art of grateful acceptance. Pain accepted was just pain, and heavy, but Harriet believed that pain gladly accepted took wings, went somewhere and did something.

Elizabeth Goudge

#24. In every shining moment of happiness is that drop of poison: the knowledge that pain will come again. Be honest to those you love, show your pain. To suffer is as human as to breathe.

J.K. Rowling

#25. I am not a theologian or a scholar, but I am very aware of the fact that pain is necessary to all of us. In my own life, I think I can honestly say that out of the deepest pain has come the strongest conviction of the presence of God and the love of God.

Elisabeth Elliot

#26. When I was in love, I fell so hard. I was really, really, really in love. The way it made me feel was priceless. And in a blink of an eye, my whole life changed. Everything that I knew was different. I never thought I'd feel that pain in my life.

Rihanna

#27. What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing.

Gore Vidal

#28. So the question really is, Why doesn't that pain make you say, I won't do it again? When the pain is so bad that you have to say that, but you don't.

Lydia Davis

#29. I understood that pain was real and sometimes things didn't last. Sometimes you just had to enjoy it while it lasts and cherish it when it's gone.

Abbi Glines

#30. When children feel comfortable asking for help, they know they matter. They see that others care and want to be there for them. They understand that they are not alone and can gain some control by reaching out for support. They realize that pain is not permanent; things can get better.

Sheryl Sandberg

#31. I think the most important thing to remember is that pain passes. And artistically, the pain is going to pass. It's what you want to express out of the pain as opposed to indulging in the agony-and-pain mantra of songwriting that became such a hit in the '90s and still, all the way up to now.

Alex Ebert

#32. Until you make peace with your difficult memories, that pain will continue to bleed into your current and future experiences.

Iyanla Vanzant

#33. The nature of humanity, its essence, is to feel another's pain as one's own, and to act to take that pain away,. There is a nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness.

John Connolly

#34. I wrote because of their inability to nurture me. I wrote to conceal the truth that life was filled with pain and that true beauty could only come from that pain. I wrote to simply disguise that pain.

A.P. Sweet

#35. Vergere taught me to embrace my pain by surrendering to it. I made that pain a part of me--something I would never fight or deny. You have to do the same thing with your fear, Uncle Luke. Then it will have no power over you." - Jacen

Troy Denning

#36. And even though people try to pretend that pain doesn't do anything to them, none of us can really handle it. Everything bad we do in our life is because of pain of some kind.

James Frey

#37. They say you can't remember pain - the fact of it, yes, but the truth of it, the physical texture of agony? Gone and forgotten. Which makes it easy to forget that pain hurts, that the wounded life isn't always worth living.

John Joseph Adams

#38. No pain ever takes full leave of its person. That pain is greedy and doesn't give ground. That a body remembers what hurts it and how. Old pains get swallowed by new pains. But newer pains always follow suit.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#39. When I'm lonely, frustrated or hurt it usually comes from a male person and from unrequited love. I often carry that pain around with me and my ribs actually start to ache. That's when I sit down and write.

Pamela Anderson

#40. The more we try to avoid the basic reality that all human life involves pain, the more we are likely to struggle with that pain when it arises, thereby creating even more suffering.

Russ Harris

#41. The danger lies in focusing on that pain, giving it a particular person's name, and keeping it always present in your thoughts.

Paulo Coelho

#42. The truth is that pain is not inherently bad for us; pain is information.

Cortney S. Warren

#43. Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.

Karen Armstrong

#44. I am tired of hiding and I am tired of lying by omission. I suffered for years because I was scared to be out. My spirit suffered, my mental health suffered and my relationships suffered. And I'm standing here today, with all of you, on the other side of all that pain.

Ellen Page

#45. I knew that my trauma, no matter what it was, was not unique. I knew that pain was the universal driving force of so many people - I knew that only in the details was it specific, and I just found it urgent to cut right to the chase and get right to the point.

Lydia Lunch

#46. You must be willing to accept the fact that pain is a part of the process of revelation.

Stanley Crouch

#47. They drummed into you that pain was good, you were supposed to go with it, push into the pain, and only ... now ... did I contemplate what retarded advice this was.

Lionel Shriver

#48. It was Zenocrates, not Plato, who denied that pain was an evil.

Walter Scott

#49. We experience a discomfort that may be foreign to others, but that pain opens up a world of beauty. Wouldn't you think?

Craig Thompson

#50. All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.

Rebecca West

#51. In the only way that pain can be truly remembered, through a new pain.

Monica Ali

#52. I don't care whether it was once sacred or not, I HATE WHAT I DO. It's destroying my soul, making me lose touch with myself, teaching me that pain is a reward, that money buys everything and justifies everything.

Paulo Coelho

#53. Time heals everything. Sometimes you have to go through that pain and heartbreak so that you can get to the other side and come out on top.

Christina Aguilera

#54. I've caused you pain, and I'm sorry for it,' she said. 'But perhaps that pain will keep you from forgetting me.

Valerie Martin

#55. She was forever tilted sideways by the notion that pain was inevitable, chance was cruel, and all human ingenuity should go towards the making of a good cup of tea.

Colum McCann

#56. Life taught me an eternal love will demand the worst sacrifices. A transcendent love will split your soul, cleaving you into pieces. A love this strong doesn't grant you sweetness - it grants you pain. And in that pain is the greatest pleasure of all.

Anonymous

#57. I was very afraid at the beginning, until Master told me that pain isn't the truth; it's what you have to get through in order to find the truth.

Deepak Chopra

#58. In boxing, you get hit, it's painful, then you sit on the stool when the adrenaline is gone and you feel that pain. And then you fight the next round.

Ben Horowitz

#59. Some people take certain things and they try to forget what that pain felt like. I don't. I take that same pain and I chase it every time I walk in a weight room.

Ray Lewis

#60. sometimes that pain is necessary in order to move forward. There are times when those painful reminders drive us to be stronger." She

Melissa Foster

#61. It hurt like hell, but at least it felt true. Her mind could settle into that pain.

Faith McKay

#62. Let the RAGE consume you, and you will find out, that pain is all you will get at the end of that journey

Ivan Diaz Bananaxx

#63. If we have a very strong commitment, so that we can trust ourselves and be beacons of trust for others no matter what the circumstance, then we're protected from suffering the consequences of many actions. We can be protected from that pain.

Sharon Salzberg

#64. It's only now that I realize that there are degrees of agony. That pain can range from devastating to soul-shattering.

Anna Zaires

#65. The simplest and clearest motivation for taking animal welfare seriously is the recognition that pain is in and of itself a bad thing, and that to inflict significant amounts of it unnecessarily is wrong.

Julian Baggini

#66. Imagine jumping into a pit of boiling acid. Now multiply that pain times fifty.
-Percy

Rick Riordan

#67. Knowing the truth makes me alone. I wrote that once, but I think I was wrong. Fear of pain is what has made me alone. But today I realized that pain and love have a balance. I can feel so much of one only because I feel so much of the other.

Sharon Cameron

#68. If I am convinced that I will procure the profoundest idea only by undergoing the profoundest pain, I shall beg for strength to endure that pain.

Kedar Joshi

#69. I listen to blues music a lot and that's a good person feeling bad and celebrating that pain by releasing it in that kind of joyous fashion.

Henry Rollins

#70. Now I'm told that this is life, that pain is just a simple comprimise so we can get what we want out of it. Would someone care to classify a broken heart and some twisted minds so I can find someone to rely on?

Hayley Williams

#71. You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.

Queen Latifah

#72. You were given that pain and that vision because you have something to do with it.

Sandra Cisneros

#73. It reminded me that pain was necessary. Pain was life's curveball. Without it, we would never appreciate what it felt like to be loved.

S.L. Jennings

#74. Sometimes it hurts to lose things, to leave them behind. We can't really forget them, so they linger. A twinge here, a sharp reminder there. The things we gain from the loss puts perspective on that pain. We can try to bury the pain, mask it, ignore it.

Melissa Foster

#75. Sometimes my need to love hurts
myself, my family, my cause. Is there a cure? Of course. But I refuse. Refuse to stop loving, to stop caring. To avoid those tears, that pain ... To err on the side of passion is human and right and the only way I'll live.

Jon Krakauer

#76. I have heard sometimes that men who lose an arm of a leg still feel that pain in those limbs, though they are gone,' said Will. 'It is like that sometimes. I can feel Jem with me, though he is gone, and it is like I am missing a part of myself.

Cassandra Clare

#77. Weak people let their pain choke them to a slow, emotional death. Strong people use that pain, Margo. They use it as fuel.

Tarryn Fisher

#78. God, Himself, could have ripped the heart out of my chest and crushed it in His mighty grip and that pain would have paled in comparison to this. Abby crumbled to the floor and cried, splitting me apart. I stumbled out the door and just left her there to suffer.

Ashlan Thomas

#79. You'll notice that pain isn't solid or constant but rather a series of sensations, sometimes hard, sometimes light, and even sometimes gone altogether

Ruby Wax

#80. The more you push, pass that pain, to feel the exhilaration of what that pain really delivers, then you will find the values of who you are.

Greg Plitt

#81. Good luck with that pain that I bring you tonight, Liliandra. That's more luck then you gave for the pain you've brought me.

Chani Lynn Feener

#82. I've always loved horses. I had one horse when I was in high school, but I had to sell him because we moved to Germany, and it ripped my heart out, so I never wanted to go through that pain again. When we moved to Cincinnati and Louisville, Kentucky, I was able to ride then.

Nicole Jordan

#83. 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

#84. Grieving must be done in its own time. To deny the human reality that pain hurts only delays the process.

Roger Delano Hinkins

#85. The most relaxing thing i do, hang halfway out a 3rd floor window, and look at rocks if i fall out. Well maybe i'll fall hard, something tough to break me, something sharp to rip into my insides and bleed out all that pain.

Al Kaline

#86. When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human, that pain is to be endured and fades, if it fades, only with time, then God became nothing to me but a dyslexic dog, with neither bark nor bite.

Yann Martel

#87. It's one thing to see yourself going across the ticker ... But to take someone else down, that's another. I really can't even explain that pain.

Brandon Marshall

#88. I was taught that pain is bad.

Keith Miller

#89. I believe that pain and suffering can either be a prison or a prism.

Tim Hansel

#90. It was hard for me, as a father, to imagine going through what my birth mom went through, to raise a child inside of her for nine months, and then have to say goodbye. And so it's hard for me to understand that pain and that process.

Michael Franti

#91. Callistanas aren't so bad either," I said, looking down at my satchel. "That 'pain in the ass' screeching saved me from a face full of acid."
Adrian put his hand to his heart in mock horror. "Sage, did you just swear?

Richelle Mead

#92. I always say that pain is information, that it is not punishment.

Susan L. Taylor

#93. The Buddha says that pain or suffering arises through desire or craving and that to be free of pain we need to cut the bonds of desire."-Eckhart Tolle

Eckhart Tolle

#94. If you think for one second no one knows what you've been going through; be accepting of the fact that you are wrong, that the long drawn and heavy breaths of despair have at times been felt by everyone - that pain is part of the human condition and that alone makes you a legion.

Shane Koyczan

#95. She was approaching the hardest moment to be faced when separated from the one you love, the moment when you finally get used to your pain, and then, you are only half alive, because that pain meant you were still fully alive. It was a bleeding, gasping kind of life.

Irene Nemirovsky

#96. I relived those memories repeatedly until I could breathe in his presence all around. The thought that I had lost him forever was a constant dull pain. May be poets had it right. Love was pain in disguise. I revered it, as there was pleasure in that pain.

Preethi Venugopala

#97. It wasn't that pain grew tolerable or the confusion went away. Instead, it simply became familiar. It became a part of you.

Hugh Howey

#98. I think that pain gives us appreciation of joy - it's a package deal. And I definitely think that the joys of life far outweigh the pain.

Frederick Lenz

#99. The quiet conscience is the invention of the devil. No one of us may permit any preventable pain to be inflicted even though the responsibility for that pain is not ours. No one may shut his eyes and think that the pain which is therefore not visible, is non-existent.

Albert Schweitzer

#100. It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory

Christopher Hitchens