Quotes About Pain

I try to use pain as fuel for my work.

I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.

There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.

I did ride a bike on the streets of Manhattan with four-and-a-half inch heels. Is that fun... or a death wish? You tell me. I was in severe pain, and everyone was laughing at me. That was great. I like when people laugh at me when I'm in pain.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Strength doesn't mean an absence of pain.

For about three or four years, I was in a lot more physical pain and stress than anybody knew. When I would meet people, I was kind of standoffish. That was because I was in a bit of a funk.

The night I flew out from Rwanda, I landed in Nairobi, and I was on my way back home, and my left side started to paralyze and remained paralyzed with pain, and the stress and so on began to appear physically.

I get migraines a lot. I get them when I'm stressed out. My brain freezes, and I just try to get through that.

They came and bound me up and I had awful stretch marks. I hated my breasts after that.

Banish aches and pains by strengthening and stretching the muscles that affect your back.

It was very painful combing my hair. My grand-uncle was a Pentecostal bishop, and he was very strict: our hair couldn't be permed or straightened. So I just cut it all off.

I got extremely fit and slim on 'Strictly,' but I did find that, each week, a different part of my body hurt. It really makes you realise the hard work dancers have to put in and how fit they have to be.

I don't believe that heavy strings make it all that much bigger-sounding. If anything, it can mess up your fingers, and you can get tendonitis, which is not cool.

I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.

The sitar is a really difficult instrument to play. Physically it's taxing because of the cross-legged sitting position, the length of the neck on the shoulder, the thinness of the strings. There's a lot of pain, especially at the start.

When your outlet is taken away from you, when your catharsis is stripped from you and you don't understand why, and you're so disappointed, and you're so blindsided by it, it hurts.

The identity that I knew was completely stripped of me. I hid, and I hated life; I hated everything. The sun would bother me.

I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It's cleansing.

Words don't go from the brain to the lips in time. That's what a stroke does to you... and that hurts me.

When I held in my hands the remains of Gunther, I had a strong feeling, like a phantom pain of an amputee.

All this pain is going to come back and make me stronger.

The pain and the suffering that I went through made me an activist. It made me stronger; it made me more compassionate.

I've been through a lot of pain in my life, but I strongly believe that without that pain I would not know love.