Quotes About Pain

You have to suffer in order to be beautiful.

The world is in pain, and its pain makes strangers of us all and ties my tongue in a lover's knot.

when we enter the gates of pain and use the healing power of memory, we will hear God speaking, and we can take comfort and rest our weary souls in his crazy, holy grace.

You've been a good steward of it. You've been a good steward of your pain.

Welcome, welcome joy, welcome sorrow, welcome pleasure, welcome pain. You are all the ingredients of life -- and with you all, life is an inestimable blessing.

Nikada nismo tako slabo zašti?eni od patnje,kao onda kada volimo.

I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the train the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence

My painting carries with it the message of pain.

Denn sie, die uns das himmlische Feuer leihn, Die Götter schenken heiliges Leid uns auch, Drum bleibe dies. Ein Sohn der Erde Schein ich; zu lieben gemacht, zu leiden.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts

Only great pain, the long, slow pain that takes its time... compels us to descend to our ultimate depths... I doubt that such pain makes us better; but I know it makes us more profound... In the end, lest what is most important remain unsaid: from such abysses, from such severe sickness, one returns newborn, having shed one's skin... with merrier senses, with a second dangerous innocence in joy, more childlike and yet a hundred times subtler than one has ever been before.

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering

Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic planet, a nook of disgruntled, arrogant creatures filled with a profound disgust with themselves, at the earth, at all life, who inflict as much pain on themselves as they possibly can out of pleasure in inflicting pain which is probably their only pleasure.

It is intoxicating joy for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and to forget himself.

Do you love tragedies and everything that breaks the heart?

I suffer: someone or other must be guilty' – and every sick sheep thinks the same.

Brave and creative men never consider pleasure and pain as ultimate values—they are epiphenomena: one must desire both if one is to achieve anything.

How much blood and horror is at the bottom of all 'good things'!

To leave is to suffer,to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Only great pain is the ultimate liberator of the spirit….I doubt that such pain makes us 'better'; but I know that it makes us more profound.

Pain does not count as an objection to life