Top 1200 Inflicting Pain Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

The only way to defeat pain is to recognize pain exists.

There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)

Here saw I a great oneing betwixt Christ and us, to mine understanding: for when He was in pain, we were in pain.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

When the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable.

What's the difference between bulimics and anorexics?" I ask. "Anorexics are anorexics all the time," she says, "I'm only bulimic when I'm throwing up." Wow. She sounds just like my dad! "I'm only an alcoholic when I get drunk." There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. Penelope gorges on her pain and then throws it up and flushes it away. My dad drinks his pain away. (107)

You can't avoid pain in life. It's how you handle pain, that's what defines you.

Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity.

I've been through a lot of pain in my life, but I strongly believe that without that pain I would not know love.

Fear is the anticipation of the pain in the future. Anger is the remembrance of pain in the past. Hostility is wanting to get even.

Often the thought of pain is actually worse that the pain itself.

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.

Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.

Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain.

It is my impression that 'pain-killing' drugs improve the patient's mood rather than take away the pain.

Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for.

He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.

Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope.

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.

I am in a lot of pain. They say it is more pain than when you have a baby but I don't know as I have not had one. It is not possible.

Pain is a beautiful thing. When you feel pain, you know you're alive.

There are never words for the strongest of our feelings. There is just the pain that we cannot share. Pain we must all feel alone.

I really hate pain. I'd pull my own soul out if it meant I could stop the pain.

True Joy is not the absence of pain but the sanctifying, sustaining presence of the Lord Jesus in the midst of the pain

We wake up and are grateful for the day. Not taking away from the pain, because the pain will be there. But you live on.

I don't really have a problem with the pain of life. Perhaps that is because I am a martial artist and I am used to dealing with pain. Or perhaps I adjusted to pain because there has been a great deal of it in my life.

Beethoven's string quartets express pain itself; it is not MY pain.

Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of everything, even pain.

It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

The pain itself is a product or a reflection of how I am interpreting whatever it is that is causing me pain.

When I'm in emotional pain, I usually embrace the pain, cry, and let it all out. Then I try to look on the bright side.

If you are angry or in pain, separate yourself from anger and pain and watch them. Externalization is the first step to liberation.

The pain was her whole world now. Pain and fear.

People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

Don't always use PAIN that you receive as an excuse to GIVE PAIN.

The people who survive avoid snowball scenarios in which bad trades cause them to become emotionally destabilized and make more bad trades. They are also able to feel the pain of losing. If you don't feel the pain of a loss, then you're in the same position as those unfortunate people who have no pain sensors. If they leave their hand on a hot stove, it will burn off. There is no way to survive in the world without pain. Similarly, in the markets, if the losses don't hurt, your financial survival is tenuous.

Is it too much to ask to just believe women when we say we are in pain? We shouldn't have to 'perform' pain to be taken seriously.

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

I spend a lot of time unpacking the pain surrounding my addiction - both my own and the pain I caused other people.

The pain of recovery is sometimes worse than the pain of the injury. Allow Jesus Christ to heal your soul.

Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us.

Instinctively I know the difference between general pain from bowling, and pain caused by a specific problem.

It is good to be taught humility when we are young. If we do not exeperience pain as children, we will cause pain as adults.

When you're in pain, tomorrow doesn't exist - just the pain - and the only thing that you want in the world is for it to go away.

Seeing other people in pain causes me pain.

Pain prompts us to change behavior that is destructive to ourselves or to others. Pain can be a highly effective instructor.

Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and simple.

Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.

What humor allows you to do is to let the past go with less pain. It's a healing element. It releases some of the pain from the shotgun wound.

When one is innocent of pain, of the havoc it can wreak, one is never cruel. Cruelty is born of pain, of a need to hurt in turn.

Remember, the pain of rejection is nothing compared to the pain of regret.

I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.

There is not the slightest question but that the God of the Old Testament is a jealous, vengeful God, inflicting not only on the sinful pagans but even on his Chosen People fire, lighting, hideous plagues and diseases, brimstone, and other curses.

Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements.

There's no way that I know of to avoid pain absolutely, but suffering is the interpretation we choose to place on the pain we encounter.

The pain is always bringing me a lesson. If I listen to the lesson when the pain is manageable, the pain won't get gargantuan and flatten me entirely, because I will have received the message at the center. I receive it as gently as I can, because the cruelest thing that I do to myself is try to push myself through an experience.

People know when you're speaking from el corazón. You have that pain. Take that pain and do something with it. That's very powerful.

Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.