logo

Quotes About Pains

I really am super lazy and doing long hair, especially mine, is a big pain in the butt. It's filled with cowlicks and kinks and curls and frizz - and it was taking too much time in the morning.
~ Ginnifer Goodwin
Never enter relationships. Otherwise, suffer the pains that come with it. Enjoy your individuality while you can.
~ Arnold Arre
The waking life never repeats itself with its trials and joys, its pleasures and pains, but, on the contrary, the dream aims to relieve us of these. Even when our whole mind is filled with one subject, when profound sorrow has torn our hearts or when a task has claimed the whole power of our mentality, the dream either gives us something entirely strange, or it takes for its combinations only a few elements from reality, or it only enters into the strain of our mood and symbolises reality.
~ Sigmund Freud
As far as I am concerned sexuality no longer exists. I used to call this indifference serenity: all at once I have come to see it in another light—it is a mutilation; it is the loss of a sense. The lack of it makes me blind to the needs, the pains, and the joys of those who do possess it.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
The happiness which they meant was not a life of rapture, but moments of such, in an existence made up of few and transitory pains, many and various pleasures, with a decided predominance of the active over the passive, and having as the foundation of the whole not to expect more from life than it is capable of bestowing.
~ John Stuart Mill
The happiness which they (the philosophers) meant was not a life of rapture; but moments of such, in an existence made up of few and transitory pains, many and various pleasures, with a decided predominance of the active over the passive, and having as the foundation of the whole, not to expect more from life than it is capable of bestowing. A life thus composed, to those who have been fortunate enough to obtain it, has always appeared worthy of the name of happiness.
~ John Stuart Mill
Nothing is more natural to human beings, nor, up to a certain point in cultivation, more universal, than to estimate the pleasures and pains of others as deserving of regard exactly in proportion to their likeness to ourselves.
~ John Stuart Mill
'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Pleasure and well-being is negative and suffering positive, the happiness of a given life is not to be measured according to the joys and pleasures it contains but according to the absence of the positive element, the absence of suffering.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
A choice of pains. That's what living was all about.
~ Audre Lorde
We were like starving women who come to believe that food will cure all present pains, as well as heal all the deficiency sores of long standing.
~ Audre Lorde
this action was a kind of shift from safety towards self-preservation. It was a choice of pains. That's what living was all about.
~ Audre Lorde
He had an uncommon thirst for knowledge, in the pursuit of which he spared no cost nor pains.
~ Jonathan Edwards
Everything in this world is a matter of calculation. Advance then with caution, the balance in your hand. Put into one scale the pleasures which any object may offer; but put fairly into the other the pains which are to follow, & see which preponderates.7
~ Jonathan Haidt
Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hope will die fasting. There are no gains without pains; then help hands, for I have no lands;
~ Benjamin Franklin
Industry need not wish, and he who lives upon hope will die fasting. There are no gains without pains; then help hands, for I have no lands
~ Benjamin Franklin
I'm becoming far more interested in just functionality and making sure my body is as strong as it can be so I can swing my kids around and not worry about aches and pains.
~ Matt Damon
My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my environment were half as cluttered as my mind, I wouldn't be able to make it from room to room.
~ Leonard Cohen
I'm glad to know that I can host the 'Today' show for 16 years and not be a trending topic. And all the sudden I'm on 'Royal Pains,' and I'm a trending topic. There's something a little strange about that.
~ Matt Lauer
You have but a short time to live in this world. As you age, you will experience the pains of aging. If your hopes and joys rest upon the body, then you will suffer greatly.
~ Frederick Lenz
If there is any enlightenment that I have been awakened to, it is that men's minds are dominated by their little aches and pains. We want to think that we are more than that, that we control our lives with our intellect. But now, without civilization clouding the issue, I wonder to what extent intellect is controlled by instinct and culture is the result of raw gut reactions to life.
~ Steven Callahan
Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would not be at so much pains to put on the appearance of virtue, if he did not know it was the most proper and effectual means to gain the love and esteem of mankind.
~ Joseph Addison
Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
~ Joseph Joubert
But trust can take you a long way. And my faith takes me a long way. And I think that our pains, our vulnerabilities, and our insecurities can fuel us to be better. To try harder. To dig deeper.
~ Mariska Hargitay