Quotes About Pain

It's been said that there are only two pains in life, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret, and that discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.

Everything you and I do, we do either out of our need to avoid pain or our desire to gain pleasure.

What are our beliefs designed for? They're the guiding force to tell us what will lead to pain and what will lead to pleasure.

Un hombre que sufre antes de que sea necesario, sufre más de lo necesario. SÉNECA

El secreto del éxito consiste en aprender a usar el sufrmiento y el placer, en lugar de permitir que éstos le utilicen a uno. Si lo hace así, ejercerá el control sobre su propia vida. Si no, la vida le controlará a usted. TONY ROBBINS

Comprender y utilizar las fuerzas del dolor y del placer es lo que le permitirá, de una vez por todas, crear los cambios duraderos y las mejoras que desea para sí mismo y para aquellas personas que le importan. El no comprender esta fuerza le condena a un futuro en el que vivirá a base de reacciones, como un animal o una máquina.

Wounds sometimes must be opened in order that they may be healed.

he was doing nothing, thinking of nothing, looking at nothing; he was merely suffering.

Those who depart must have earned such sorrow before it can be really felt. 

We know the story of the Spartan boy who held the fox under his tunic. The fox was biting him into the very entrails, but the young hero spoke never a word. Now, Bessy Garrow was inclined to think that it was a good thing to have a fox always biting, so that the torment caused no ruffle to her outward smiles. Now, at this moment the fox within her bosom was biting her sore enough, but she bore it without flinching.

But in such troubles nothing will give comfort. They must be borne, till the fire of misfortune burns itself out.

The pain is still within me, but it has been a source of regeneration for me. And this is a crucial point in my work: the problem is not that one has pain, but what you do with it.

Research among aristocratic women has produced the statistics that 45% died before the age of fifty,one quarter from the complications of childbirth; these figures do not however allow the debilitations caused by consent parturition.Many women must have died of diseases and conditions related to the pain and the perel,worn through by ceaseless child-bearing,who didn't actually die in labour.

George IV remained unwilling to give his Royal Assent to the bill until the very end. He did so finally, 'with pain and regret'

not once more will/I be found with beings/who swallowed the rail of life//And one day I found myself with beings/who swallowed the nail of life/-as soon as I lost my matrix mamma,//and the being twisted under him,/and god poured me back to her/(the motherfucker)...

most unhappiness springs from conflict or grief

Had she not earned freedom from turmoil? From fear and pain?

faded daily. Sometimes she suffered much pain from the canker

You have an affair to get for yourself what you wish would come from the person you love the most. And then you have broken her heart and she can never give you any of it ever again.

GRIEF IS A WORLD you walk through skinned, unshelled.

Grief is another world. Like the carnal world, it is one where reason doesn't work. Logically, I knew that the person I'd lost was not fully formed, that he was the possibility of a person. But without him I was gutted. If my baby could not somehow be returned to me, nothing would ever be right again. This bitter winter would go on forever.

She had her own pain. She had her own reasons. That was something I never saw clearly before motherhood flashed in front of my eyes, impairing and intensifying my vision. Nothing has looked entirely the same since.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.