Pain Quotes - Page 327

[S]he leans into this guy and rocks her head like I’m making this music for her, when if I could, I would take it all away and give her as much silence as she’s given me pain.

I mean, I think I am basically a cool girl, but I am also a pain in the ass.

In some basic way, it is our imperfections and even our pain that draws others close to us.

The pain of hope dying is worse than his fists and boots.

As soon as a baby enters the world, the baby is immediately introduced to pain. It is somewhat symbolic that life begins with a cry.

Here is an educational bombshell: Take from all of today's industrial nations all their industrial machinery and all their energy-distributing networks, and leave them all their ideologies, all their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.

There's way too much pain in this business for anyone who doesn't HAVE to write.

Apache have the strongest nation in the world behind them. So we're going to inflict pain where our European aunts and uncles had to endure it. And so the fact that you could actually get Nazis scared of a band of Jews, that's - again, that's a gigantic psychological thing.

There is no pain in the wound received in the moment of victory.

If you see anything, always deny that you've seen; or if perchance something pains you, deny that you're hurt.

Obviously I wasn't playing well at the time. But as a player, you lie to yourself. You say, "There's nothing wrong. I'm just not on time [at the plate]." You make something else up because pain is not an option.

We all faced painful ethical challenges before we even knew how to spell our names. There were tough choices. Tradeoffs. Confusing signals regarding how to live one's life. And here we are now, today, still struggling. Still trying to sort things out. Still trying to work our way through life effectively. About the only thing that has changed is the scope of the problem. There's more at stake now. And we're in a position, as grownups, to do a lot more-good or bad-for ourselves, our organization, our world. But we still must wrestle with our imperfect ethics.

If you're unwilling to defer pleasure or endure some "pain" for now, are you likely to end up later deep in the hole?

To act, you must know pain. You must know what it means to be in love, what it means to be rejected.

You can go to Spain, and Cubans are looked down upon. It's strange how people chop up where you're from.

I made reference continuously to the killings, the death, the life taken by all of these narcotrafficking gangs and human smugglers. I spoke of this problem as one of the wounds that Mexico suffers. It's a great pain that I'm taking, because this nation [Mexicans] doesn't deserve a drama like this one.

I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.

If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.

The artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it.

Maybe the only good thing about death is that you never have to relive it. You never have to remember the pain.

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite, are yet so contrived by nature as to be constant companions; and it is a fact that the same motions and muscles of the face are employed both in laughing and crying.

I wanted to bring the book out right now because I think anyone who cares about Tibet knew there would be disturbances in the run up to the Olympics [2008]. Many Tibetans feel it's their last chance to broadcast their suffering and frustration and pain to the world before the Olympics take place and China is accepted as a modern nation and the world forgets about Tibet.

It is you men who make war! ... We, who have children, would never make it! Why should a woman be broken up in pain, to give her child life, only to see him carried away from her, to make food for guns?

My other work, teaching, also is satisfying because I can be with people but in controlled circumstances, which aren't as likely to yield the pain of dealing with family.