Quotes About Pain

Marriage is the legal method devised to end love without pain.

In the moments between bullets, those in foxholes regain their vision. They get to count the dead, feel for holes. Pain creeps through a sluice of calm.

Doing that hunt scene was really quite demanding. I actually broke a rib during that scene. And then all the scenes after that became quite challenging, just breathing and laughing.

There is more pain from holding on to the thought of pain than there is in the situation itself. If you let the world strike you, it will do so less cruelly than your own imagination.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected.

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

Never underestimate the pain of a person, because in all honesty, everyone is struggling. some people are better at hiding it than others.

The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.

Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.

It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

If it hurts me, it must hurt the other ones twice as much.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.

Hell is the suffering of being unable to love.

You will see that the things you desire most are the very things that bring you the greatest sorrow.

I had concussions as a kid playing football and basketball, and know what it feels like and to have someone say 'Just rub some dirt on it, and get back in there.'

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.

Lack of understanding is always painful.

Run like hell and get the agony over with.

Humans - who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals - have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.