Pain Quotes

“For too much rest becomes a pain.”

“You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.”

“The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.”

“I said: what about my eyes?God said: Keep them on the road.I said: what about my passion?God said: Keep it burning.I said: what about my heart?God said: Tell me what you hold inside it?I said: pain and sorrow?He said: Stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”

“For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.”

“The still affection of the heart Became an outward breathing type, That into stillness past again, And left a want unknown before; Although the loss had brought us pain, That loss but made us love the more.”

“The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.”

“Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.”

“I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of "madness". Then: I'd arrange flowers, all day long, I'd paint; pain, love and tenderness, I would laugh as much as I feel like at the stupidity of others, and they would all say: "Poor thing, she's crazy!" (Above all I would laugh at my own stupidity.) I would build my world which while I lived, would be in agreement with all the worlds. The day, or the hour, or the minute that I lived would be mine and everyone else's - my madness would not be an escape from "reality".”

“I cried over beauty, I cried over pain, and the other time I cried because I felt nothing. I can't help it. I'm just a cliché of myself.”

“Pain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure.”