P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Pain or damage don't end the world.”
“Pain or love or danger makes you real again.”
Source: The Dharma Bums
“Pain or not, I would most likely walk around in a suicidal reverie the rest of my life, never actually doing anything about it. Was there a psychological term for that? Was there a disease that involved an intense desire to die, but no will to go through with it? Couldn't talk and thoughts of suicide be considered a whole malady of their own, a special subcategory of depression in which the loss of a will to live has not quite been displaced by a determination to die?”
Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
“Pain or perspective, that's the choice.' . . . You choose pain - you choose to fight it, deny it, bury it - then yes, the choice is always hard. But you choose perspective - embrace your history, give it credit for the better person it can make you, scars and all - the choice gets easier every time.”
Source: Kiss
“Pain, or pleasure. I could not tell where one ended and the other began.”
“Pain or pleasure? I say pleasure.”
Source: Discourses (Books 1 and 2)
“Pain patterns are vicious cycles, unconsciously passed from generation to generation in deeply entrenched behavioral and relational paradigms. They cannot be changed from the outside, only from within. Fear gives way to comfort, pain to healing, anger to peace, despair to hope, only when the heart of a person or the soul of a people feel safe enough to emerge from the hardened shell of self-preservation and become open to new possibilities. A hurting humanity cannot be healed by force, by arguing, shaming, threatening, manipulating. Those merely feed the pain patterns and harden their protective shells. Love, acceptance, empathy, compassion, those are the gentle rain that blossoms hurt into healing, transforming pain patterns into the peaceful flowering of a healthy, heart-whole humanity.”
“Pain pays no attention to moans or excuses.”
“Pain pays the income of each precious thing.”
Source: The Complete Sonnets and Poems
“Pain... Physical pain is the only thing that reminds me I’m still a human being. Emotional pain doesn’t exist anymore." .”
Source: Shadows Within: A Collection of Dark Tales by Ali Zaka
“Pain plants the flag of truth within a rebel fortress.”
“Pain plants the seeds of power. But we have to decide if we’ll water it with resentment, or with purpose.”
“Pain prompts us to change behavior that is destructive to ourselves or to others. Pain can be a highly effective instructor.”
Source: Quiet Strength: A Memoir
“Pain pumps blood when heart dies”
“Pain purifiers the soul.”
“Pain purifies the soul.”
“Pain pushes until vision pulls.”
Source: Life Visioning: A Transformative Process for Activating Your Unique Gifts and Highest Potential
“Pain puts us in close contact with ourselves. When we are wounded by loss, we become vulnerable. It’s in that place of helplessness and hopelessness that we are broken open enough to receive light—emotions like comfort, peace, and hope flow in alongside grief. It’s as if loss shatters us so much that we have no choice but to experience heartbreak and hope simultaneously. Where we most hurt is exactly where we will best heal.”
Source: Your Grief, Your Way: A Year of Practical Guidance and Comfort After Loss
“Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.”
“Pain reconciles one to existence. Infinite resignation is that shirt in the old fable. The thread is spun with tears, bleached by tears, the shirt sewn in tears, but then it also gives better protection than iron. The secret in life is that everyone must sew it for himself.”
“Pain redeems all. It is the awareness of life, a reminder of death.”
Source: Kushiel’s Legacy
“Pain releases the dopamine.”
“Pain relents sometimes, but it gives way to indifference, which is a dreamless sleep, or to pleasure, which is a bastard pain. Then man, whipped and rebellious, ran ahead of the fatality of things after a nebulous and dodging figure made of remnants, one remnant of the impalpable, another of the improbable, another of the invisible, all sewn together with a precarious stitch by the needle of imagination. And that figure—nothing less than the chimera of happiness — either runs away from him perpetually or lets itself be caught by the hem, and man would clutch it to his breast, and then she would laugh, mockingly, and disappear like an illusion.’’
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas- Machado de Asis”
“Pain relief is the goal of all treatments, but treatments to relieve pain are designed to take away pain per se. Generally, this is symptomatic treatment and, therefore, poor medicine unless it is administered for humanitarian purposes. The use of morphine, Demerol, or other strong analgesics is certainly justified when there is excruciating pain but not as a definitive treatment.
Acupuncture appears to work as a local anesthetic. In other words, it blocks the transmission of pain nerve impulses to the brain. If one is dealing with a chronic disease for which no relief of pain can be expected, this is a good treatment. For the typical back patient, it can give temporary relief but it does nothing about the underlying process, the cause of the pain. (page 145)”
Source: Healing Back Pain
“Pain reminds us that we are alive and breathing, that we still have the strength within to fight”
“Pain results from a judgment you have made about a thing. Remove the judgment and the pain disappears.”
“Pain revealed the paltry dimensions of love. The paltry dimensions of everything, in fact, except pain.”
Source: A Day and a Night and a Day: A Novel
“Pain, Rhuan decided, did not simply hurt. Pain also exhausted a person, sapped his soul, thinned his spirit. Worse, pain was tedious.”
Source: Deepwood
“Pain's hidden depths birth our fiercest growth”
“Pain s the truth of art. Art is not a hobby or a pastime. It is the result of an internal battle royal, one between the quest for safety and the desire to matter.”
“Pain says that if we’re alive enough to feel pain, we’re alive enough to feel joy. It’s just a question of whether we believe that there’s space for both.”
“Pain says you can't. Courage says you will!”
Source: All In: A Working Mom's Unapologetic Quest for a Juicy Life
“Pain seared through me again-a hot, burning stab in my gut-and yet my body found strength I didn't know I had, correcting as I fell.”
Source: Gallagher Girls: United We Spy
“Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't know if that's because I'm a human being or because I'm an Irishman or both.”
“Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.”
Source: The Faraway Nearby
“Pain serves as an unyielding teacher, and within its harsh embrace, we uncover the true essence of survival—learning to rise from the depths, marked yet unbroken. It engraves its lessons deeply, weaving them into the very fabric of who we are. We are compelled to face our vulnerabilities head-on, to gaze unwaveringly into the abyss of suffering. Through this intense trial of anguish, we are reborn. We unearth hidden wells of resilience, discovering strengths we never realized we had. Each agonizing moment, every tear shed, and all silent screams become foundational elements of a more robust self. We learn to navigate the perilous terrains of despair, finding pathways through the shadows. The scars we carry transform into badges of honor, testaments to battles fought and triumphs achieved. They remind us of the storms we have weathered, the depths we have explored, and the unyielding spirit that chose not to yield. Rising from the wreckage, we emerge transformed, with altered perspectives and an expanded capacity for empathy. We are survivors, not victims, and within our survival lies a deep understanding of the human condition—a testament to the enduring strength of the human spirit to conquer adversity and find beauty even amidst pain.”
“Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.”
“Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled but halved. No man is an island”
Source: Anansi Boys
“Pain should not be wasted.”
“Pain shouts down your mediocrity.”
Source: 9 Steps to Build a Life of Meaning: How to Unlock Your Mind, Happiness, Power, and Your Enemy's Demise
“Pain, sorrow, anger, these are all powerful emotions. Allowed to rule and left unchecked, they would destroy you. However, through training and willpower you can choose to harness those feelings and use them for something great.”
Source: Alan Price and the Colossus of Rhodes
“Pain . . . such a simple word, but so packed with meaning. I have come to learn that pain is the strongest emotion one can feel. Unlike every other emotion, it’s the only one every human being is guaranteed to feel at some point in their life, and there is no upside to pain, no positive aspect that can make you look at it from a different perspective . . . there’s only the overwhelming sensation of pain itself.”
Source: After We Fell
“Pain sure does bring out the best in people, doesn't it?”
“Pain teaches lessons no scholar can.”
“Pain teaches purity.”
“Pain teaches you more than pleasure. Failure teaches you more than success. Poverty teaches you more than prosperity. Adversity teaches you more than comfort.”
“Pain that is not transformed is transmitted.”
“Pain that leads to purity is better than mere pleasure.”
“Pain that leads to purity is better than pleasure that brings pain.”
“Pain that results in success is better than pleasure that results in failure.”