Top 1200 Intense Pain Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

In my opinion, long and intense study of the human figure is the necessary foundation for a sculptor.

Nothing lasts in New York. The life that is lived there, however, is as intense as it gets.

I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important.

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility

When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.

Renunciation is not about pushing something away, it is about letting go. It's facing the fact that certain things cause us pain, and they cause other people pain. Renunciation is a commitment to let go of things that create suffering. It is the intention to stop hurting ourselves and others.

The intense atom glows A moment, then is quenched in a most cold repose.

I am utterly, consummately intense, wearing sunflowers and poppies and dahlias in my buttonhole.

The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.

The regulatory systems in place disincentive innovation. It's intense to fight the red tape.

I do like books to be quite an intense experience, and that's the kind of novel I respond to as a reader.

We were shooting an outdoor scene where I run to get into a car. As I did so, someone closed the door on my leg. With severe pain, I continued to shoot after applying a pain relief cream. But as luck could have it, someone slammed the door on the same leg, yet again, and at the same spot! Next, I come to know, I have a fracture!

For those who have an intense urge for Spirit and wisdom, it sits near them, waiting.

We want to avoid pain and have pleasure, so if our early attempts to achieve our dreams fail, we want to avoid the pain of future failure and rejection, so we stop trying and write it off with a broadbrush, "I'm just not driven enough, not well educated enough, not attractive enough, not smart enough."

I gravitate toward edgy, intense, dark films that just grab you by the throat.

Harvard Law School is great. I'm lucky to be here. It's a really difficult, intense experience.

...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.

The most intense thing I’ve ever done was bring a girl to Passover dinner.

They wanted it because they've got some sort of darkness in them. And maybe because they like pain. Because pain turns them on. Well, maybe it turns me on, too," she said quietly. "In fact, I know it does, because loving you hurts. And yet, I still come back for more.

In high school, I definitely fancied myself an intense guy, which is so lame.

Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

I didn't feel physically sick. But mentally. My mind was twisting in so many ways. (...) We once saw a documentary on migraines. One of the men interviewed used to fall on his knees and bang his head against the floor, over and over during attacks. This diverted the pain from deep inside his brain, where he couldn't reach it, to a pain outside that he had control over.

I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural inclination. I would have something that can dissipate the inertia and give elasticity to the muscles. We can heat the body, we can cool it; we can give it tension or relaxation; and surely it is possible to bring it into a state in which rising from bed will not be a pain.

When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so-called good and tolerable days, I feel so bad in my childish soul that I smash my rusty lyre of thanksgiving in the face of the slumbering god of contentment and would rather feel the most devilish pain burn in me than this warmth of a well-heated room. - Harry Haller

It is phenomenal how fast a little toot of smack will take away the agony of withdrawal and most other kinds of pain. What it cannot take away it makes meaningless. You may still have a broken arm, but somehow it doesn't matter so much. The same is true for angst and anxiety. It cancels pain so hidden that you were unaware of its existence until it disappeared.

An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.

Who is Savion Glover? Who is that guy? Good question. I'm a lot of things... Intense... Focused.

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.

Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic value rises out of memory, and so (as Nietzsche saw) out of pain, the pain of surrendering easier pleasures in favour of much more difficult ones ... successful literary works are achieved anxieties, not releases from anxieties.

There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty.

I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy.

I get angry very fast, and it's intense. I start breathing heavily, and don't like it.

[Gal Gadot] is really intense and scary and also incredibly warm and sweet.

It's really intense in our rehearsals; you have to get ready and condition your body.

The very same brain centers that interpret and feel physical pain also become activated during experiences of emotional rejection. In brain scans, they light up in response to social ostracism, just as they would when triggered by physically harmful stimuli. When people speak of feeling hurt or of having emotional pain, they are not being abstract or poetic, but scientifically quite precise.

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

Doing a series of 'Facejacker' takes about nine months. It's pretty intense.

In spite of really intense competition for the job, I'm still my own worst enemy.

Our word choices give a sentence its luster, and they deserve intense attention.

Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic planet, a nook of disgruntled, arrogant creatures filled with a profound disgust with themselves, at the earth, at all life, who inflict as much pain on themselves as they possibly can out of pleasure in inflicting pain which is probably their only pleasure.

I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can let go and go deep into their roots for renewal and sleep.... Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

There I was out in the barn playing midwife to a pregnant mare. I remember sitting there, spinning yarn in the light of a little oil lamp, a city girl who knew nothing about farming, sitting on the deel beside that mother in pain, already beginning the birthing process. All around me there was darkness and perfect silence, except for the mother's pain. It was as if the war didn't exist in those hours.

Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds.

But what if we took it one step further and made an effort to actually transform our pain into something beautiful? What if we went full out and made an effort to transform other people’s pain into something beautiful?

Football players have always got a problem, some pain, and in some games, I have had small problems with my knee or some pain, and I played anyway, but people don't know if I have a problem or not. People just know if you score a goal or if you play badly, but they never know if you are well or not.

Being thin created intense anxiety that I wouldn't be able to maintain that weight for life, and I couldn't.

Why is the competition always so intense to set new records for maximum stupidity?

One or two people have named their children after characters in my songs. That's pretty intense.

You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.

My wheelhouse is intense characters who have a certain sympathetic streak and also a sense of humor.

I believe that in intense conflict, far from becoming sharper, differences melt away.

Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.

A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share.

The ferocity of passion that is engendered by people when they don't like what you've done is really tremendous. It's intense.

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

The process to resolve post-Islamic State issues will be difficult and intense.

In a single moment we can understand we are not just facing a knee pain, or our discouragement and our wishing the sitting would end, but that right in the moment of seeing that knee pain, we're able to explore the teachings of the Buddha. What does it mean to have a painful experience? What does it mean to hate it, and to fear it?

The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts.

I needed someone really intense, but also somebody with a lot of theatrical credibility.