Quotes About Pain

I was shot down by a fifth ball, which struck me squarely in the face, and passed out.

Going into the hospital for something that was caused by just being overweight really struck a nerve. I didn't ever want to be in that pain again or have another scare like that. I was like, I really need to figure out what I can do to lose weight and get healthier.

I clearly remember the pain of partition; the whole of Delhi was seeing the struggle of refugees. We stayed near Roshanara Bagh, and the whole city appeared like a refugee camp.

I've struggled with self-esteem and depression, like most singer-songwriters. I listen to my EPs on Bandcamp, and I can just hear the pain and the self-esteem struggle in my voice.

There were times when I struggled mentally and felt betrayed.

I know some people that have gone through serious struggles. People that were close to me, and I've seen some terrible things about people who lose it. So I think that type of pain is something that's human and that, actually, can help us look at ourselves a little bit.

I've seen the struggles and the heartache and the pain that goes along with being in the fight game.

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

Often the people with the biggest smiles can be struggling the most.

I was able to do Classics, the U.S. national championships and the Pan American Games and feel like I improved with each meet, but I was still struggling with a lot of residual pain from the two surgeries.

The ecstasy of driving a new Ferrari is now almost always eradicated by the pain of dealing with the organisation.

You can equate our music to childbirth. It's brutal and harsh, but there's still a beautiful thing occurring.

I remember, as a kid, my first breakup at 14 years old, I was jamming to Toni Braxton trying to heal out here. Why did an angel break my heart? Hell, I don't know.

Showing young children in these communities, that there are outlets for their feelings, that there is room in a space for their stories to be told, and that they will be applauded - and it's not about ego, it's about connection: that their pain is everybody else's pain.

The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.

And obviously, when I talk about something that has hurt me in my life, I can go overboard.

Real pain hurts so bad. When you've gone through something and you've overcome it, you're able to heal other people.

There's an incredible amount of pain involved in being a human, but this humorous stuff is essential in overcoming it.

Around my 40th birthday, I started to have extraordinary pain in my eyes and it was only happening overnight and I couldn't figure out what the source was of this but it would literally shoot me out of bed in enormous pain, doubled over.

I've never broken a bone, I've never even sprained anything, so to be overseas and have my clavicle broken in two places was a bang-up job done by me.

Leadership is the ability to enroll other people in your agenda. Meaningful acts of leadership usually cause people to accept some short-term pain (extra cost or effort, delayed gratification) in order to increase the long-term benefit. We need leadership for this, because we all tend to be short-term thinkers.

Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure.

Not only had he lost the only girl he'd ever loved, he'd lost her in duplicate, like some heartbroken but highly efficient civil servant.

Het potsierlijk gemorste lopend voedsel, de drinkbeker voor kleuters in de handen van een huilende negentigjarige, de onbehandelbare pijnen, de stoma's, de urinezakjes hangend aan een kapstok naast het bed dat je niet meer verlaat, de nooit eindigende tragikomedie van de ontlasting. Dat ganse bittere repertoire van kots en kak.