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Quotes About Pain

In darkness, in any light after dusk, you can slit a vein and the blood is black.
~ Michael Ondaatje
She swabbed arms that kept bleeding. She removed so many pieces of shrapnel she felt she'd transported a ton of metal out of the huge body of the human that she was caring for while the army travelled north.
~ Michael Ondaatje
All over the world there must be people like us, Anna had said then, wounded in some way by falling in love—seemingly the most natural of acts.
~ Michael Ondaatje
But sometimes not being responded to leaves us feeling so hurt and angry that it can make us retreat from relationships, even for years.
~ Michael P. Nichols
It's funny, I thought, how the people who seem the meanest, the people we want nothing to do with, might be in the most pain.
~ Michael Patrick MacDonald
desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.
~ Michael Peppiatt
Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread.
~ Michael Pollan
Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin.
~ Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Remorse is the pain of sin.
~ Theodore Parker
To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.
~ George A. Smith
We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.
~ Mary Astell
Sin carries in it its own misery.
~ John Piper
I was bullied since primary school, for everything.
~ Liz Cambage
Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.
~ Otis Rush
I have heartaches, I have blues. No matter what you got, the blues is there. 'Cause that's all I know - the blues. And I can sing the blues so deep until you can have this room full of money and I can give you the blues.
~ John Lee Hooker
Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
~ Laura Schlessinger
With Pablo, I lose my reason, and with me, he loses his head; and then all that's left is a man pursued by justice and a woman pursued by the media who know and take care of and need each other, despite the pain caused by all the absences, all his crimes and her sins.
~ Virginia Vallejo
Everything that scared me is losing people I love, and everyone that I really love, as it relates to females, I've lost. So what it's made me be is the animal that I am because I don't want to sit down and think about the things that are hurting me, but, you know.
~ Damon Dash
Writing humour certainly involves pain. A sitcom is 6 months of writing pain!
~ Miranda Hart
The charming sitcom is all very well, but good comedy is based on pain and danger and fear.
~ Prunella Scales
Sitcom characters, my writing partner Sam Bain and I sometimes tell each other, are not normally self-conscious. Or not quite. The best sitcom characters are probably just a little self-conscious. Deep enough to feel pain and humiliation, but shallow enough that there are no hidden depths.
~ Jesse Armstrong
I remember going to a music company and while I was sitting there I saw Panchamda. He saw me and hid from me - because he had come there asking for work. That was the most painful moment of my life - that one of the greatest composers, a living legend, was looking for work.
~ Anu Malik
I think it's a common misconception in the civilian community that the military community is filled with just drills and discipline and pain. They forget that these are humans who are in an abnormal situation.
~ Adam Driver
Most of us have been in that situation where you've been falling in love with somebody who didn't feel the same way. It's not a nice situation.
~ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau