Quotes About Pain

every time I've held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another.

Disappointment has a name, it's heartbreak

The worst possible way a relationship can end is when somebody cheats on somebody else.

Suffering is overated.

It is the most vicious of all crimes - to be abused by someone you had a relationship with! Because then you blame yourself.

She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship.

All you did was wreck my bed and in the morning kick me in the head.

I'll probably always love him. Doesn't mean I can ever trust him again. That doesn't make a relationship.

I believe that often people even stay in bad relationships longer than they should because the fear of the pain of dating is scarier than the pain of a bad relationship!

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

It's a bad religion to be in love with someone who could never love you.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world.

The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and suffering.

[L]ife is more than just steering a course around pain.

[Ilse] was suffering so keenly that she wanted to arraign the universe at the bar of her pain.

It hurts so badly when you grow up and understand that everything you believed in and devoted yourself were just fallacy and stupidity.

...if you give such a creature two blows with a whip, there are, indeed, two pains: but there is no co-ordinating self which can recognise that 'I have had two pains'.

If we must tempt to Pleasure, how do we tempt to the least amount of Pleasure? Or better yet, tempt them to its opposite? But how to tempt them to pain.

A strong drink can numb the soul as good as any prayer

Auschwitz cries out with the pain of immense suffering and pleads for a future of respect, peace and encounter among peoples.

Whether we wound or are wounded, the blood that flows is red.

Boxing is the magic of men in combat, the magic of will, and skill, and pain, and the risking of everything so you can respect yourself for the rest of your life.