Quotes About Pain

Je hebt parels en diamanten hebt alles wat je hartje begeert. En óók nog de mooiste ogen. M'n liefje wat wil je nog meer? En op die aandoenlijke ogen schreef ik een lied, keer op keer. Een vlucht van gevleugelde woorden. M'n liefje wat wil je nog meer? Maar die 'aandoenlijke' ogen op mij, ze deden zó'n zeer dat jij me te gronde gericht hebt. M'n liefje wat wil je nog meer? (Seth Gaaikema)

We cannot avoid pain, we cannot avoid loss. Contentment comes from the ease and flexibility with which we move through change.

Work — once merely an annoying nuisance — has become an agonizing torture.

It's no good. When someone leaves you, apart from missing them, apart from the fact that the whole little world you've created together collapses, and that everything you see or do reminds you of them, the worst is the thought that they tried you out and, in the end, the whole sum of parts adds up to you got stamped REJECT by the one you love.

Is the whole world doomed to emotional trauma?

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

I always say writing a play is like toothache: I find it incredibly painful, and it's only once the play's out that the pain is gone.

Cheating tends to come up a lot in my songs. Betrayal fascinates me. I think the fact that you can trust someone so much and then they go against that has always plagued my writing for some reason.

Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear.

For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain, but I like that. It's a reality, and I just accept it as something not to be avoided.

'Scar Tissue' is the only book I've ever written when I've felt completely toxic, ill.

There's nothing wrong with celebrating the good things in our past. But memories, like witnesses, do not always tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. We need to cross-examine them, recognizing and accepting the inconsistencies and gaps in those that make us proud and happy as well as those that cause us pain.

I lost three cousins and a best friend, and they all came at the wrong time. Everyone told me to be strong and that they were in a better place. But I didn't want to hear that. They were gone and I will never see them again.

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.

When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain individuals close to me, with the detachment of time. I wanted to tell the truth about secrets: How much pain they give, yet how much relief, even happiness we may feel when at last the motive for secrecy has passed.

For me, 2016-17 was hell, and there's no way around it for me. I went through pain, depression, fear, doubt, and all of that was a journey that I was able to write through, and then I wrote when I was coming out of that dark place as well.

I've been hit with kendo sticks and chairs; I've been thrown through tables, broke my ankle, broke my nose, and have had concussions in WWE, but nothing has hurt me more than when I stubbed my toe in 'The Marine 3: Homefront.'

It's real easy to be in the WWE and let your passion or your pain or the schedule put you in a bad place.

I had 1,000 yards when I played on plantar fasciitis before.

Yeah, you make some tackles or you meet the ground and you feel the pain. Ain't no question about it. Whether it is the shoulder, the back, making the wrong plant when you fall - yeah, you'll feel it. You get right up. You go back to the huddle. You can't show weakness out there. You try not to. You don't want to give a sign.

Yeah, she was hitting me hard. She was drunk and she was hitting me hard.

I've been concussed I don't know how many times, yeah it's taken a pretty good toll on the body.

When you record an album and it goes platinum... yeah, you're in the studio and you work hard for months, but it's not like your whole body hurts. Maybe you get a little hoarse and tired. But on 'Dancing With the Stars,' everything hurts.