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Quotes About Pain

El suicidio más acostumbrado en nuestro tiempo consiste en pegarse un balazo en el alma.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
El suicidio más acostumbrado en nuestro tiempo es pegarse un balazo en el alma.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
What is "rational" consists in prolonging life, avoiding pain, satisfying the appetite for hunger and sex. Only some such definition sheds any light on the discourse of the last centuries.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.
~ Nicole Appleton
Grief is a killer, isn't it?" he said. "Brings you right up to the truth.
~ Nicole Mones
The best way to eliminate all suffering in the world would be to eliminate all sentient life. If there were no living things capable of feeling pain, then there would be no pain.
~ Nigel Warburton
Ready or not, I peer into your soul and dive deep... Your eyes don't like what I see. You don't want to be me. So you curse and smash the mirror which gets you what? A bit of blood , a handful of glass splinters, another source of pain.
~ Nikki Grimes
When you die, every single muscle in your body hurts. Your body has closed down because it thinks it's done, and when it gets rebooted, every inch of you hurts. Plus I'd had the shit beaten out of me with a baseball bat.
~ Nikki Sixx
It seemed that both had lately had a touch of that pain under the waistband which comes of a sedentary life.
~ Nikolai Gogol
Because I cannot sleep. A pain has taken me in my middle, and my legs, from the ankles upwards, are aching as though they were broken." "That will pass, that will pass, good mother. You must pay no attention to it." "God grant that it MAY pass. However, I have been rubbing myself with lard and turpentine. What sort of tea will you take? In this jar I have some of the scented kind.
~ Nikolai Gogol
Entre las penas con que nuestra vida está tejida, luce siempre un chispazo de alegría.
~ Nikolai Gogol
AMMOS FYODOROVICH No, it's impossible to drive it out: he says his nanny hurt him as a child, and ever since then he's given off a whiff of vodka.
~ Nikolai Gogol
Nel mio paese, la vodka non porta alcuna gioia. Porta abbruttimento, rimorso, depressione. Distrugge ogni cosa.
~ Unknown
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
~ Unknown
If pain is too bad to be executed by everybody, and seen by everybody, is it not because it is too bad?
~ Unknown
The only person who can really hurt you in life," she would write, many years later, "is a husband.
~ Unknown
When you lose someone, you get used to living day to day without them. But you'll never get used to the 10 second heartbreak." That's the time it takes to wake to full consciousness each day and remember…
~ Nina Guilbeau
She wept and suffered, and finally, when Father had left the house again, she went to one of her secret places where a bottle was, and drank a tunnel away from the pain.
~ Unknown
My room is so quiet and empty it hurts.
~ Unknown
Each pleasure is wrapped in pain. You soon discover that you cannot have one without the other … Real happiness is not vulnerable, because it does not depend on circumstances … Real happiness flows from within.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
The very desire to live is the messenger of death, as the longing to be happy is the outline of sorrow. The world is an ocean of pain and fear, anxiety and despair. Pleasures are like the fishes, few and swift, coming rarely, quickly gone.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
It is this clash between desire and fear that causes anger, which is the great destroyer of sanity in life. When pain is accepted for what it is, a lesson and a warning, and deeply looked into and heeded, the separation between pain and pleasure breaks down, and both become experience - painful when resisted, joyful when accepted.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
The limited is bound to be painful and pleasant in turns. If you seek real happiness, unassailable and unchangeable, you must leave the world with its pains and pleasures behind you.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
Pain and pleasure are the crests and valleys of the waves in the ocean of bliss. Deep down there is utter fullness.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj