Quotes About Suffering

We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meaningful? No. It's dogs barking. It doesn't mean anything beyond our yelping, at the pain of being alive.

When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain.

People have so much pain inside them that they're not even aware of.

For a sensation to be felt as pain is for it to be pain.

The nature of the game is pain.

Comedy is only funny when there's real pain.

In the country of pain we are each alone.

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

Just having conversations with God, begging God to make the pain go away, and then the pain wouldn't go away. So I'm like 'Who the hell am I talking to? God is not responding.'

I was taught that pain is bad.

Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.

We all know pain doesn't exist without some coexisting depression.

It's really beautiful. But you know, fancy footwear is a pain!

I meditate a lot, but I am constantly in pain. I'm trying to live with this. You just have to accept it.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

Dysphoria will always be a painful place.

I didn't have to say it. I just had to write it. It was painful enough.

People die because they find living too painful.

I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.

The two most painful things in my life are arthritis and divorce.

Being mentally ill is not a joke. It is a most painful thing.

Losing is very painful for me.

The process of really changing your skin is painful and difficult and endless. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying.

Dancing hurts, like physically is painful, but being the Bachelor is an emotionally - it's a lot of emotional pain.