P Quotes
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“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
“Pain involves the violation or transgression of the border between inside and outside, and it is through this transgression that I feel the border in the first place”
Source: Cultural Politics of Emotion
“Pain is a beautiful thing. When you feel pain, you know you're alive.”
“Pain is a breeding ground for lies to grow, but we get to decide whether we will agree with them.”
Source: From Lost to Found: Giving Up What You Think You Want for What Will Set You Free
“Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the pain and the suck, you don’t ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for.”
“Pain is a common emotion in many of my songs mainly because I often don't know other ways to express it adequately. In my songs I wrestle with the things that I don't understand.”
“Pain is a coward. He flees when faced by the irresistible power of the will-to-live, which is more strongly rooted in the flesh than the intensest passion is rooted in the spirit.”
Source: Stories and Legends
“Pain is a difficult companion. There's no getting around that. But, if pain is to be a companion, searching and discovering your own best ways to travel with that pain will lead you to the joy that you long to have. They are your paths, your ways and while my experience and the experiences of others may inspire you, ultimately it will be the choices you discover and make for yourself that lead you to certain joy in the midst of your challenges.”
“Pain is a door.”
Source: Psychoanalyst Meets Marina Abramovic: Jeannette Fischer Meets Artist
“Pain is a door. A secret door into a different state. Without these doors you can't reach it. Afterwards, you no longer fear pain.”
Source: Psychoanalyst Meets Marina Abramovic: Jeannette Fischer Meets Artist
“Pain is a forcing sieve that turns me to gruel.”
“Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity.”
Source: Velocity: A Novel
“Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity. Without fear, there could be no humility, and every man would be a monster. The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.”
Source: Velocity: A Novel
“Pain is a great teacher, a wake-up call to the young and old, poor and rich.”
“Pain is a great teacher, but most of us would rather learn some other way.”
Source: Windows
“Pain is a holy angel who shows us treasures that would otherwise remain forever hidden; through him men and women have become greater than through all the joys of the world. It must be so and I tell myself this in my present situation over and over again. The pain of suffering and of longing, which can often be felt even physically, must be there, and we cannot and need not talk it away. But it needs to be overcome every time, and thus there is an even holier angel than the one of pain; that is, the one of joy in God.”
“Pain is a horribly wonderful gift.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Pain is a huge gift. It can expand you like nothing else. If you can embrace it and sink into it, you'll get to the point where you can bend and transform your experience of it. Having some sort of creative outlet to do that is another gift.”
“Pain is a message asking for our help.”
Source: Kabbalah for Inner Peace: Imagery and Insights to Guide You Through Your Day
“Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message.”
“Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.”
“Pain is a new room in your house.”
“Pain is a part of growing-up. It is how we learn.”
Source: Angels & Demons Special Illustrated Edition: A Novel
“Pain is a part of life. It's certainly part of my creative process.”
“Pain is a part of life...misery is an option.”
“Pain is a pesky part of being human, I've learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a sudden hurt that can't be escaped. But then I have also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing. Pain feels like a fast stab wound to the heart. But then healing feels like the wind against your face when you are spreading your wings and flying through the air! We may not have wings growing out of our backs, but healing is the closest thing that will give us that wind against our faces.”
“Pain is a physical discipline.”
“Pain is a poison; pleasure an intoxicant.”
“Pain is a portal to transformation,
It does not knock politely.”
Source: Medicine Woman: Reclaiming the Soul of Healing
“Pain is a predator when we run from it, it will inevitably chase us down and catch us in its clutches. The goal isn't to wallow in the pain or to avoid it, but rather, to move through it. Pain only holds us hostage when we get stuck in it or try to repress it. Pain is a part of the human experience. Life is a bittersweet journey. Developing the ability to learn from our pain and to cope with it, effectively, is one of the most empowering gifts we can give ourselves.”
“Pain is a prerequisite to greatness”
“Pain is a refining fire of the heart. Some grow bitter, some grow still, some emerge radiant with quiet wisdom.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is... The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.”
“Pain is a sensation produced by something contrary to the course of nature and this sensation is set up by one of two circumstances: either a very sudden change of the temperament (or the bad effect of a contrary temperament) or a solution of continuity.”
Source: The Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn Fī'l-ṭibb)
“Pain is a spiritual wake-up call showing you that there are oceans you have not yet explored. Step beyond the world you know. Reach for heights that you never thought possible. Go to places you have deemed off limits. This is the time to take off the shell of your past and step into the rich possibilities of your future. God does not give us dreams that we cannot fulfill. If you want to do something great with your life-whether it's to fall madly in love, become a teacher, be a great parent-if you aspire to do something beyond what you are doing now, this is the time to begin. Trust yourself.”
“Pain is a teacher from whom we can learn much.”
Source: The Secret of Staying in Love: Loving Relationships Through Communication
“Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.”
Source: Collected Poetical Works of Rumi (Delphi Classics)
“pain is absurd because it exists, nothing more.”
Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993
“Pain is all I know." He murmured. "Peace is all I want”
Source: The Frankenstein Series 5-Book Bundle: Frankenstein: Prodigal Son, City of Night, Dead and Alive, Lost Souls, The Dead Town
“Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.”
Source: The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves
“Pain is always more powerful than pleasure, especially when it pertains to us. However, when it comes to others, we reverse the rules.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“Pain is always preferable to numbness.”
Source: Triage: A Novel
“Pain is an assignment for everyone; no one gets to escape pain and suffering.”
“Pain is an attempt to transform fear into something palpable, something physical, into something that has a beginning and an end, something that has a language, a wordless language that says, "There is something here.”
Source: Psychoanalyst Meets Marina Abramovic: Jeannette Fischer Meets Artist
“Pain is an event ... Suffering, on the other hand, is the nightmare reliving of unscrutinized and unmetabolized pain.”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.”
Source: The Gun Seller
“Pain is an evolutionary adaptation that is instructive in that it alerts us to injury, and without pain feedback, humans would likely be incapable of surviving.”
Source: Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach
“Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are more boring to listen to or read about.”
Source: Rise of Endymion
“Pain is an interesting thing. You think you have reached your limit and you can’t possibly feel more tortured. Then you discover there is still another level of agony. And another level after that.”
Source: The Burning Maze
“Pain is an outcry of sin.”