Quotes About Pain

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear.

It's OK to feel pain and experience it. I'm not trying to fix myself. My suffering has given me so much.

When you see a person you love being affected, suffering, people saying things that aren't true... then it hurts you.

I've seen my own blood and broken a few bones. I've been hit, which isn't an entirely bad thing, as at least you have a glimpse of the suffering endured by the people you are photographing. And in a sense, crumbling empires and war have been with me all my life.

In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.

Grief causes suffering and disease.

The Iraqi people are suffering just as if they were still under Saddam.

Fires of suffering and strife are raging around the world.

Suffering degrades, embitters and enrages.

I've always loved the blues, ever since I was a kid. It has a depth to it that a lot of contemporary music doesn't have. It has pain and suffering in it, but funny stories, too. And it is built on storytelling, which is something I really love.

I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.

I think it's true that the 1 Percent or the elite are living in a world of, maybe, excessive privilege, and they don't fully realize how much pain and suffering, how much anxiety exists out there.

If we have a very strong commitment, so that we can trust ourselves and be beacons of trust for others no matter what the circumstance, then we're protected from suffering the consequences of many actions. We can be protected from that pain.

Nothing good gets written without the writer suffering along the way, in my opinion. Writing should be a pleasure, but unless you feel almost broken many, many times in the journey to a novel, you haven't pushed yourself hard enough.

Suffering doesn't improve human beings, does it?

What I find compelling is the moment in which people realize, with suffering and pain, that in the past there was a time when they were happy, because back then the present and the future coincided - they were one and the same thing.

There are millions of Americans who are suffering from chronic pain.

What can I say: I'm a writer - I enjoy forcing pain and suffering on my characters!

I have been suffering for so long and didn't even recognize it. I just stopped doing so many things that I used to love to do due to my pain.

You don't want to diminish anybody's pain and suffering.

When someone is suffering, you have to see this in the body and the face. I say all the time that actors use their bodies like objects of war.

Many Russia experts note the deep and sad capacity of the Russian people for suffering.

Pain - that is what life is about, isn't it? Suffering with moments of reprieve.