Quotes About Pain

No pain, no gain," they say. But many change efforts fail because the people affected experience only the pain. The company may gain, but for employees it seems to be all loss. Trying to talk them out of their feelings will get you nowhere.

This picture in people's heads is the reality they live in, and one of the losses that takes place during the ending phase of a transition is that the old picture—the mental image of how and why things are the way they are—falls apart. Much of the pain of the neutral zone comes from the fact that it is a time without a viable organizational picture.

That toil of growing up;The ignominy of boyhood; the distressOf boyhood changing into man;The unfinished man and his pain.

An agony of flame that cannot singe a sleeve.

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

O heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head,You'd know the folly of being comforted.

Words cut deeper than knives

Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.

Killing was a relatively simple matter--a blow to the head, a knife to the throat--complicated only by how much one cared about the pain or terrors animals felt in dying.... The animal also died a second death. Severed from the form in which it had lived, severed from the act that had killed it, it vanished from human memory as one of nature's creatures.

bullet wound n. ballistically induced aperture in the subcutaneous environment

Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.

It was a place if not hell then certainly the room across the hall from it.

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

Pride always wants a little smarting.

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

Where torture has been long applied we find that it is developed to grades of incredible horror.

All the pains and aches man feels in his life are but so many singultus morientis naturœ—groans of a dying nature; they tell him his dissolution is at hand.

If it be but a tooth to pull out, the faster it stands the more pain we have to draw it. O loosen the roots of thy affections from the world, and the tree will fall more easily.

The hurt heart heals, but the healed heart still hurts. -- From "Exile" in Finding a Form

Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.

Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust. Hatred alone is immortal.

Grace is rhwe absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incogruity.