Pain Quotes

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.

As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects.

What I think I've been able to do well over the years is play with pain, play with problems, play in all sorts of conditions.

I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you're looking so hot.

In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain.

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.

We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it and the middle class and Democrats under his leadership want to make sure that we can address deficit reduction and continue to make investments and shared sacrifice is going to be imperative in order to be able to do that.

To be totally honest, if I could be thinner without it causing a lot of pain and anxiety in my life, I would be. But today the reality is my life is more important to me than my weight - and thank God for that.

The pain of retirement means loss.

There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.

I've never been in any pain, ever, like that in my whole life. Now it's set me so far back, I just don't' have the lung capacity to swim the way I can.

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

'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.