Pain Quotes

A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.

~ Daniel Akaka

When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain.

~ Tom Petty

It's not okay to be fat - not because of the way you look, but because it's unhealthy. I have experienced hormonal problems, bad skin, immense laziness, and back and knee pain. It's not fine to be too fat or too thin! Anything in extremes is wrong. I am afraid of putting on weight because I don't want to develop health problems.

~ Sonam Kapoor

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.

~ Lillie Langtry

Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.

~ Anne Grant

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

~ Joseph Campbell

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Our trials and our times of pain get the most recognition, but 'Straight Outta Compton' speaks to triumph. When it's doubtful, when nobody is on your side, when your back is against the wall, you triumph and make it through. Showing growth through movies promotes growth.

~ O'shea Jackson

Reality in movies is the reality of the story you're telling, so it may not match the reality as we know it, but the reason there's art is that it tries to bring some kind of understanding of all the suffering and joys and pain that we go through. Storytelling brings some value to it.

~ Caleb Deschanel

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

~ Khalil Gibran

In the pain, the agony, and the heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a refiner's fire, and the insignificant and the unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact, and strong.

~ James E. Faust

I have no problem with the idea of comfort, but it is not an important thing aesthetically. If you look at a shoe and immediately say it looks very comfortable, in terms of design, it is not going to excite me. Of course, I am not putting nails in my shoes to ensure everybody is in pain, but a heel is not a pair of slippers and never will be.

~ Christian Louboutin

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

~ Rita Rudner

By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.

~ Barbara Mandrell

While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.

~ Dee Dee Myers

We only learn at the speed of pain, and we don't have others in our lives without forgiveness.

~ Bill Clegg

We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.

~ Gary Zukav

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

I want my music to be accessible to every listener because I know that I really have something to say in terms of really, you know, removing thorns from people, thorns that really makes us unaware that we are bleeding with these thorns, like pain, grief, jealousy and so on.

~ Vusi Mahlasela

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

~ Christopher Morley

I shall give you hunger, and pain, and sleepless nights. Also beauty, and satisfactions known to few, and glimpses of the heavenly life. None of these you shall have continually, and of their coming and going you shall not be foretold.

~ Howard Lindsay

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

~ Samuel Butler

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.

~ Christina Aguilera

Circumstances in life often take us places that we never intended to go. We visit some places of beauty, others of pain and desolation.

~ Kristin Armstrong

The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

~ Auguste Renoir

When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.

~ Annie Lennox

I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it's really funny, you see funny things as soon as you step out of the room, but underneath that is a whole bag of broken hearts. It's that real pain and that real hilarity that makes life so intriguing.

~ Tamsin Greig

Films are big hits when they touch a lot of people. Things are not funny in a vacuum, they're funny because we respond to some personal dislocation, some embarrassment, some humiliation, some pain we've suffered, or some desire we have.

~ Harold Ramis

It's a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain.

~ Rick Baker

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

~ Milan Kundera

I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters.

~ Marilyn Manson

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

~ Ai Weiwei

It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.

~ Eddie Vedder

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.

~ Lionel Trilling

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

~ Henri Nouwen

What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.

~ Andrew Sullivan

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

~ Yoko Ono

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.

~ Jennifer Aniston

If you don't know about pain and trouble, you're in sad shape. They make you appreciate life.

~ Evel Knievel