Quotes About Pain

That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.

I plunged my head under the water voluntarily...the physical shock took away the pain of being.

They had not yet started out across a continent of grief that a lifetime of walking could not cover.

No es acaso el atiborramiento la forma más refinada del sadismo? Y el amor, llevado a este punto de saturación de la demanda, ¿no se convierte en una forma de tortura?

Winners understand that taking that pain now prevents a lot more pain later.

Deneyimler; kötülükler katlan?labilir olduÄŸunda, insanoÄŸlunun al??ageldiÄŸi koÅŸullar? y?kmak için uÄŸraÅŸmak yerine ac? çekmeyi yeÄŸlediÄŸini göstermiÅŸtir.

Prayer does nothing to alleviate suffering.

They were martyred. But what a martyrdom! I had long read about martyrdom in the lives of the saints--how the souls of the martyrs had gone home to Heaven, how they had been filled with glory in Paradise, how the angels had blown trumpets. This was the splendid martyrdom I had often seen in my dreams. But the martyrdom of the Japanese Christians I now describe to you was no such glorious thing. What a miserable and painful business it was!

The priest raises his foot. In it he feels a dull, heavy pain. This is no mere formality. He will now trample on what he has considered the most beautiful thing in his life, on what he has believed most pure, on what is filled with the ideals and the dreams of man.

Ne mogu da podnesem monotoni zvuk sumornog mora, ?utanje Boga... saznanje da dok ljudi glasno pate - Bog ostaje skrštenih ruku, nem.

Levantó el pie. Le dolía con un dolor sordo, pesado... Esto era más que una fórmula. Él, en este momento, estaba a punto de pisotear lo más bello que había soñado en su vida, lo que había creído más puro, lo que llenaba el ideal y los sueños de los hombres...

A Devil, a born Devil on whose nature, nurture can never stick, on whom my pain, humanly taken, all lost, quite lost...

The labor we delight in physics pain.

She has vowed never to love: and that vow means I must endure a living death.

Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle like a game of go. I will take hold of all the pain and snuff it out.

Dying is so simple. A fleeting moment of suffering. In the blink of an eye you are over the threshold, into another world. No more pain, no more fears. You sleep so well there. Dying is like rubbing snow together, setting fire to a whole winter of cold and ice.

And the pain she'd felt all those years before hadn't been so much that he'd left, but that he didn't love her enough to stay.

In time of war, the Devil makes more room in Hell.

Memory is merciful, Joanna, more so than man. It fades past pain, yet holds bright the colors in recalled joy.

Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress & yet not be overwhelmed by it.

Forgiveness can be bittersweet. It contains the sweetness of the release of a story that has caused us pain, but also the poignant reminder that even our dearest relationships change over the course of a lifetime.

Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.

When we forgive someone, we don't pretend that the harm didn't happen or cause us pain. We see it clearly for what it was, but we also come to see that fixating on the memory of harm generates anger and sadness.

The Buddha taught that we can feel pleasure fully, yet without craving or clinging, without defining it as our ultimate happiness. We can feel pain fully without condemning or hating it. And we can experience neutral events by being fully present, so that they are not just fill-in times until something more exciting comes along.