Quotes About Pain

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

En la fe el espíritu descansa; en la razón vive; en el amor goza; sólo en el dolor adquiere conciencia.

As terrifying and painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness.

Maybe it isn't a good idea to tell a newly arrived human being that he's been born into a world of chaos, pain, and poverty just in time to watch everything fall to pieces.

As terrifying and painful as reality can be, it's also the only place we can find true happiness. Because reality is real.

I realized, as terrifying and painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness. Because reality is real.

Those stories you heard? About going to a wonderful place called 'heaven' where there is no more pain or death and you live forever in a state of perpetual happiness? Also total bullshit. Just like all that God stuff. There's no evidence of a heaven and there never was. We made that up too. Wishful thinking. So

as terrifying and painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness. Because reality is real.

My father's face contorted in pain, and that was when I turned and walked away, well out of earshot, to let them talk in private—and to avoid a crying jag of my own.

I was devastated. I was still in love with her.

I realized, as painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness.

That was when I realized, as terrifying and painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness. Because reality is real.

One repeated the same old mistakes. Each of us has a blind spot in his thinking that defeats him time and again against all teaching and experience and pain.

I must be worthy of the great DiMaggio who does all things perfectly even with the pain of the bone spur in his heel.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places…

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.

Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.

Life hurts—where is there growth without suffering?

Some day I'd like to cover a war in a country as ugly as war itself.

So the sick man has the feeling not that he lacks something but that he has too much of something. His discomfort, as something which is hanging around him and superfluous, has to go; pain is proud flesh. He dreams of the body which knows how to keep comfortably quiet again.

This was the home of the great god Pain, and for the first time I looked through a devilish chink into the depths of his realm. And fresh shells came down all the time.

His death brings new experience to my life - that of a wound that will not heal.

I am the window-cleaner, here to cause the cleansing pain.

An acceptable proportion must be maintained whether in a novel, therapy or everyday life — between pain and other aspects of living. Humor, irony, diversity of interests, a sense of adventure, mystery, love — all are story elements passed over by those people who are most imprisoned within their pain. Such persons can be only temporarily interesting, either in a novel or in life itself.