Quotes About Pain

Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear.

But the gray and the cold are haunted by a beauty akin to pain, by a sense of a something wanted that never will come again.

It hurts when you have to smile and you don't want to smile, but the best thing to do is to smile.

For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything.

I caught my wife in bed with my best friend the other day. I was crushed. They could have waited till I'd got out.

In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.

Rejection always hurts, but having it come from my best friend was the worst.

The subject of pain is the business I am in - to give meaning and shape to frustration and suffering. The existence of pain cannot be denied. I propose no remedies or excuses.

Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.

Compassion is to share the pain without sharing the suffering.

Ask open ended questions. Pull out the pain and the hurt your prospect is experiencing.

There have been three times. Once I got in a car accident and shattered my finger. A few years ago I didn't feel like being alive. That's all I can say.

Today I saw a car crush my little dog under it's wheel.

I felt suicidal. I couldn't stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn't it be great if the car crashed and I died?

I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain.

I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence.

I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.

It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance to find out the person you really are, not the person you thought you were.

But our wounds are part of who we are...and there is nothing left to chance....And pain's the pen that writes the songs....That call us forth to dance

WHAT KEEPS US unhappy and stuck in a limited view of reality is our tendency to seek pleasure and avoid pain, to seek security and avoid groundlessness, to seek comfort and avoid discomfort. This is how we keep ourselves enclosed in a cocoon.

When inspiration has become hidden, when we feel ready to give up, this is the time when healing can be found in the tenderness of pain itself.

When we hold on to our opinions with aggression, no matter how valid our cause, we are simply adding more aggression to the planet, and violence and pain increase.

The third kind of loneliness is avoiding unnecesssary activities. When we're lonely in a "hot" way, we look for something to save us; we look for a way out. We get this queasy feeling that we call loneliness, and our minds just go wild trying to come up with companions to save us from despair. That's called unnecessary activity. It's a way of keeping ourselves busy so we don't have to feel any pain.

Everyday we could think about the aggression in the world. In New York, Los Angelos, Halifax, Taiwain, Beiruit, Kuwait, Somalia, Iraq. Everywhere. All over the world, everybody always strikes out at the enemy. And the pain escalates forever. Everyday we could reflect on this and ask ourselves, Am I going to add to the aggression in the world? Everyday, at the moment when things get edgy, we could just ask ourselves, Am I going to practice peace, or am I going to war?