Quotes About Pain

Some say pain is the greatest motivator. . . I say it's love.

Some will make you Dance, some will make you Smile, and some will make your misery longer than a mile! Pleasure or Pain, the Choice is thine.

When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.

When our trials come, when we feel pain and suffering, when our tears flow again, it is our joy and comfort to lift our faces heavenward and to go on, standing on the promises of God.

The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.

I tell people this: It's hard to write about walking in the park, but it's easy to write about a breakup.

My acupuncturist once told me that it doesn't have to hurt to work. She might have meant the needles, but I think she really meant love.

All things which greatly hurt me greatly teach me

I see your face, your smile and poetry comes flooding out of a heart that can't love you anymore...

It was easy to tell Jamie to move on, be happy with someone else. But she saw now that it would absolutely kill her to see him with another woman.

Ummmm hi" and my broken heart twitches in an attempt to start beating again

Every time you rip the bandages off, you just open the wound up again. Every time he sees you, it's like tearing off the bandages.

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like.

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.

Once upon a time I was falling in love, now I'm only falling apart.

Music helps not the toothache.

I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.

'Each man kills the things he loves'. I recognise that in myself, in relationships, even with guitars, beautiful things that I've had and wilfully destroyed.

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.

I don't feel any shame I won't apologize if there ain't nowhere you can go running away from pain when you've been victimized tales from another broken home.

When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.

I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.

Music saved my life. The voice you hear, the soul, the pain, is that of a person who deeply, deeply, deeply appreciates the opportunity they've been given.