Quotes About Pain

Songwriting is writing about the human experience.

As soon as 'General Admission' came out, there was a whole new pain that hit me that was rougher than I could imagine.

I try to be as optimistic as I can. I feel like that's the beautiful thing about art and music. It can take you places, and they can be a positive influence. A very soothing influence. Honestly, I feel like there's enough pain and terrible things that happen in life. That's beautiful thing in art, you can really idealize things.

You work a lot when you're hurt when you're a good stuntman, because you're going to be hurt quite a bit. And you can't let a sore leg or a bruise or something stop you, so you just take a Percodan and go to work.

Implants were something I thought I wanted when I was younger, and now I don't. It was hard being active with them, because my chest was always sore. It hurt a lot, and I didn't like always being in pain, so they had to go!

From afar, I have cried watching my nation, sore with prejudice, slowly heal itself. I hurt along with America, my phantom pains only alleviated by work I do every day - art.

During the season, I'm sore everywhere.

I've done a lot of ladder matches in my career and usually you come out a little more sore than you would in a regular match.

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.

You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.

An actor's body should be full of emotions, whether it is happiness or sorrow, pain or joy, enraged or elated.

Only where there is sentient life can there be feelings of pleasure and pain, sorrow or joy.

I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.

Our own sorrows seem heavy enough, even when lifted by certain long-term joys. But watching others hurt is the breaker of most any heart.

Every guy I know has some sort of freak injury in their body.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul.

Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.

Binaries aside, we are the products of our relationships with our identities - cities we have built, bodies we have embraced, kindred souls we've cherished, our memories, our dreams, the fears we hide, the pain we hold - identities that cannot be reduced to a collection of labels.

This is going to sound shocking, but being born with two club feet was quite a good beginning. If you pull through that, you're very unsentimental. My earliest memories are of really agonising pain.

It might sound ordinary for a woman to find out her husband's cheating on her, but not if you're the woman and it's your husband.

In regards to your love life, you're just entering into a whole of pain if you talk about it. If you've never said anything, there are no sound bites to haunt you when you're crying into a box of Kleenex after it all goes wrong.