Quotes About Pain

It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.

What all of us artists are doing is using our pain as material to create our work.

I work my back 'til it's racked with pain, the boss can't even recall my name.

This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart.

Your body has this instinct to start healing and then you go back to work and it hurts even more. It's almost better to keep your body messed-up on a consistent basis.

If you want to take dance to an extra level, you have to be physically fit. You also have to put the years of work in. If there's no pain, there's no gain. You've got to sweat to improve.

I turned my pain into art and my hard work into a career. Helping myself has helped others. helping others has helped me.

I think people think filmmaking is fun, but I've never thought that. For me it's always been a lot of work and pain and stress.

It's incredibly painful to think back to the time I had to come back to work. I was so, so needed at home. Like the vast majority of people in America, I couldn't take unpaid leave.

In Heaven we shall not rest from our work, but from our labors. There will be no toil, no pain in the work.

Physical rehab is often very, very hard work.

I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

Tantra is for the desperate. Unless you've really experienced pain and suffering, tantra won't work. Unless you've really experienced exultation and ecstasy, tantra won't work.

Life for most people is a bad dream. They live in pain, grabbing at what they can for pleasure. As they grow old, they despair. Things don't work out the way you planned.

This kind of love doesn't work very well, it destorys the nature of love.

The toughest workout can never match the pain of being out of work.

The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs.

What I try to write about are the darkest things in the soul, the mortal dreads... The closer I get to the burning core of my being, the things which are most painful to me, the better is my work.

Retirement in another country is your body is too racked with pain and your hands are too arthritic from the life in the rice patty fields, so you can't work anymore.

It causes me great pain to sue the company I work for. Nevertheless, I had to do it. Suffice it to say, there's a dispute and I believe I haven't been given what is mine.

I try to take the pain and find a way to use it in my work; I find that it makes the work deeper.

When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain, and you can't quite get there, that's when you're better.

You come out hurting all over, and what didn't hurt, didn't work.

The wino and I know the pain of back bustin'.