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Quotes About Pain

If I were dead, the first thing you'd do, with the tears streaming down your face, would be to start modelling some damned mourning woman or some figure of grief.
~ Agatha Christie
Who was there to guard youth from pain and death - youth who could not, who had never been able to, guard itself? Did they know too little? Or was it that they knew too much, and therefore thought they knew it all?
~ Agatha Christie
A lot of additional pain and grief is caused by honesty," remarked Hercule Poirot.
~ Agatha Christie
One's body is a nuisance, M. Poirot, especially when it gets the upper hand. One is conscious of nothing else-- whether the pain will hold off or not--nothing else seems to matter.
~ Agatha Christie
It is love that has come — not as you imagined it, all cock-a-hoop with fine feathers, but sadly, with bleeding feet.
~ Agatha Christie
Real grief is real. It makes you feel awful but it does something to you. I mean, it works it out like perspiration.
~ Agatha Christie
Because people like living, don't they? So do flies. Even if you're old and in pain and can just crawl out in the sun. Julian says those people like living even more than young strong people do. It's harder, he says, for them to die, the struggle's greater. I like living myself—not just being happy and enjoying myself and having a good time. I mean living—waking up and feeling, all over me, that I'm there—ticking over.
~ Agatha Christie
O que posso fazer para afastar a lembrança dos meus olhos?
~ Agatha Christie
eyes were red with recent weeping.
~ Agatha Christie
Two people who have suffered unhappiness have a great bond in common.
~ Agatha Christie
And if all I know how to do is speak, it is for you that I shall speak. My lips shall speak for miseries that have no mouth, my voice shall be the liberty of those who languish in the dungeon of despair… And above all my body as well as my soul, beware of folding your arms in the sterile attitude of spectator, for life is not a spectacle, for a sea of pain is not a proscenium.
~ Aimé Césaire
Every Pleasure ends in Pain... Loss follows every Gain. The ONLY way to Eternal Bliss is Self-Realization.
~ AiR Atman in Ravi
We all want Pleasure,we don't want pain... If we don't realize 'Who we are' and 'Why we are here',our Life will go in vain.
~ AiR Atman in Ravi
The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.
~ Akhenaton
Tattooing is definitely an art form," Kenzo said. "I do agree with you about that, and I've recently learned to appreciate the beauty of the art tattoo. But tell me, speaking not as a collector but strictly as a physician and a rational man, don't you think it's stupid to undergo so much pain and expend so much energy on self-mutilation? I mean, surely no one with an iota of common sense would ever do such a thing.
~ Akimitsu Takagi
In Osaka slang, a tattoo is called gaman— you know, "patience" or "perseverance." There are two things about getting tattooed that seem to impress people, the money it costs, and the pain it causes.
~ Akimitsu Takagi
As the teacher gave his lessons, he would look over at me from time to time and say, "Akira probably won't understand this, but Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â or "This will be impossible for Akira to solve, but Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â The other children would turn to look at me and snicker when he did this, but no matter how bitter I felt, he was right. Whatever the subject, it was completely incomprehensible to me. I was pained and saddened.
~ Akira Kurosawa
Your organs are all failing, but your cancer...well, your cancer is doing great.
~ Al Sarrantonio
If only it were so easy. Real-world bad dreams are much worse.
~ Alafair Burke
Las personas que consiguen lo que no merecen sufren terribles desgracias."- Las amapolas del emperador.
~ Alai
La profonde tristesse résulte toujours d'un état maladif du corps.
~ Alain
It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a little sad before buildings can properly touch us.
~ Alain de Botton
I was what came to mind when there was blood on the floor.
~ Alan Alda
War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
~ Alan Alda