Quotes About Pain

Because after the finish all the suffering turns to memories of pleasure, and the greater the suffering, the greater the pleasure.

Shifting is a kind of painkiller, and therefore the same as giving up. After all, if I wanted to kill my pain, why not choose the most effective method? Road-racing is all about generating pain.

Marty coughed and spat a dark mass. Tears burned his eyes. The darkness grew darker. "No... help me!" And then

The pain outlives the flesh.

Closure is an American lie used to justify revenge. Healing is getting used to the pain, learning to be damaged.

Because if you're comfortable with sacrifice and pressure and criticism and pain, if you can learn to focus on the result instead of always focusing on the difficulty… you can chase Winning, fight for it, and defend your right to catch it.

Love, stealing with grace into the heart you wish to destroy, love, turning us blind with the bitter poison of desire, love come not my way. And when you whirl through the streets, wild steps to unchained rhythms, love, I pray you, brush not against me, love, I beg you, pass me by.

This paradox—how a belief founded on a gospel of love could cause so much pain—is a big reason why people are leaving the church in droves. And it's no small part of my struggle as I step into the pilgrim realm.

Loveliness, he said, is paid for in the currency of suffering.

She'd also been suffering from a painful sexually transmitted disease, given her by her husband.

Black innovators were the force behind a burst of cultural creativity, from the poetry of Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance to the crossover dance craze of the Charleston to jazz, the soundtrack of the age—"the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile," as Hughes called it.

I'm not the strongest. I'm not the fastest. But I'm really good at suffering.

No soy la más fuerte. No soy la más rápida. Pero soy muy buena sufriendo.»

Pain is never out of season if you go shopping for it.

Brian Koppelman mentioned that he considers Haruki Murakami the world's best writer of fiction. To boot, Murakami is an excellent long-distance runner. Here is what Murakami has to say about running, which can be applied to anything: Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Anger is often what pain looks like when it shows itself in public.

The whole point of addiction is that people are compelled to it by suffering, trauma, unease, and emotional pain. If you want to help people, ask why they are in so much pain that they are driven (there's that word again) to escape from it through ultimately self-harming habits or substances. Then support them in healing the trauma at the core of their addiction, a process that always starts with nonjudgmental curiosity and compassion.

El sufrimiento procede de tres patrones de pensamiento: pérdida, menos, nunca.»

If you want to help people, ask why they are in so much pain that they are driven (there's that word again) to escape from it through ultimately self-harming habits or substances.

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace." –Chuck Palahniuk Famed

The truth is that the pain of broken trust and betrayed friendship is simply the cost of caring and deeply connecting to others.

Manuka honey bandages. Amelia has scars all over her shoulders and back from barbed-wire wounds.

To me, it means using pain to find clarity. If pain is examined and not ignored, it can show you what to excise from your life.

qué genios tan torturados son. No me convence…