Pain Quotes

I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached. She needed to have someone who understood what was happening in her mind.

Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

The language of America changed with the election of Bill Clinton, because with all due respect to my friends on the Republican side, Bill Clinton is the best communicator of the last 50 years. He felt your pain.

I shall give you hunger, and pain, and sleepless nights. Also beauty, and satisfactions known to few, and glimpses of the heavenly life. None of these you shall have continually, and of their coming and going you shall not be foretold.

A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.

When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'

It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.

From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.

Finally I had a place where I could express my pain and I felt safe because I didn't have to put my name on it. I think acting kept me alive back then.

As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain.

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.

Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It's strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former.

Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to... Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain.

'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you.

When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.

A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

I wanted out of my pain and that silliness, but I wanted an easy out. That's before realizing that there is no easy out. Before accepting that you just have to do the work.