Pain Quotes - Page 26

• I find my own pain and others' difficult to tolerate, so I always want to try to shift things so they'll be better. But in doing that, if I am coming from a place of ego, I often cause harm. So it's a struggle for me to set my ego outside and find a softer and more compassionate way of approaching things.

  Danny Boyle

  Struggle, Ego, Trying

  Source: www.elle.com

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• There are certainly statistics which show that most people who become sociopaths, who become homicidal, who become child- abusers, have had a history of incredible suffering. This is what we call the transmission of family sin, in which these unconscious patterns get carried on for generations in a legacy of pain. When they are not brought to awareness and worked through, each generation just automatically enacts them.

  Connie Zweig

  Children, People, Suffering

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• When it comes to emotions, we all feel pain in the same way, everyone, whether you're from Istanbul or Beijing.

  Thandie Newton

  Istanbul, Way, Emotion

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Anyone who lives with poor health or chronic pain, or who has endured poverty - real poverty - knows what it is to live with lack and a resulting fear so incessant that it becomes thoroughly normalized, invisible in its ubiquity. If you're lucky enough to have that fear begin to ease, it's an odd experience. A stranglehold eases off your entire body, one you never fully realized was there.

  C.E. Morgan

  Real, Ubiquity, Lucky

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I often think there are three primary responses to suffering - rage, intoxication, or growth. We either want revenge for our pain, or we numb ourselves with the endless array of intoxicants available to us, from drugs to overwork, or we grow in empathy. Emptiness can transform into spaciousness; lack can become an agent of social action. But I think many of us struggle to remain on that third path without backsliding into the other two. I do.

  C.E. Morgan

  Revenge, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• So many things tear us apart from each other. That's the hardest thing, to fit with all the hatred and pain we're embroiled in. I mean, we're a very violent species, physically and emotionally.

  Ellar Coltrane

  Mean, Hatred, Tears

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To be a creative person and be a professional, as an artist you have to be able to withstand pain, rejection, and for some, a lot of bad feelings, but you have to be able to look through those.

  Ira Sachs

  Artist, Rejection, Creative

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Cinema can transform pain and trauma into something beautiful.

  Anna Biller

  Beautiful, Cinema, Trauma

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I hate seeing people getting hurt or hurting other people. I hate seeing blood. I am very intolerant of physical pain. I find violence horrifying, so much so that I can't help being intrigued by it.

  Takeshi Kitano

  Hurt, Hate, Blood

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Like I tell people they wind up having short term pleasure and long term pain. I'm a tell what Minister Louis Farrakhan said, "Black people ain't poor, they just don't spend wisely" and that's the truth.

  Mr. T

  Wind, Long, People

  Source: allhiphop.com

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• When I lose direction, it becomes very hard to write. I actually get a physical pain, as if my subconscious knows better. That may sound mystical and pretentious, but it's true.

  George Benjamin

  Writing, Sound, May

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• People drink to numb the pain and suffering. 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

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: archive.azcentral.com

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• I understand pain very well, so I look for that in a role. If the characters are well-written, don't tell nobody, but I'll do the damn thing for free. I'm serious. It's the writing. I love beautifully flawed characters.

  Michael K. Williams

  Writing, Character, Love Is

  Source: collider.com

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• At the core of every person or belief, there's a pain and a thorn. There's always something, whether it's a physical thing, a health thing, or an I wish I had someone or something in my life thing. We all know some level of pain, so I like to see the ugliness of characters. It's a side that we show, only when we strip down in the bathroom mirror.

  Michael K. Williams

  Character, Wish, Belief

  Source: collider.com

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• I love dealing with drama. I'm drawn to the painful side of storytelling, more so. I feel like that's where you get the most honesty from. My laughter comes from irony. You laugh at my pain. I can't look for the laugh 'cause I'll fall flat on my face. I like the type of laughter that comes from irony like, "Of course, it's sunny today when I wore a mink coat!" I'm that guy. I was raised on Benny Hill and The Odd Couple and The Honeymooners.

  Michael K. Williams

  Laughter, Honesty, Couple

  Source: collider.com

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• Somebody asked me, "When was the last time it was harder for you as a woman"? And I was like, "What time is it? Do you mean today?" I hate to say that, because it sounds so depressing, but it absolutely happens in many many ways all the time, large and small ways. But it's not like it creates new pain for me on a daily basis, it's just a pain that I accepted long ago. It's definitely harder.

  Suzanne Todd

  Depressing, Hate, Mean

  Source: collider.com

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• Female sexuality is presented in our culture as a male fantasy, which doesn't include the reality of the abuse, the pleasure, the pain, the power, the complexity of women's sexuality.

  Deborah Kampmeier

  Reality, Abuse, Female

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The hardship, the pain, the suffering of my brother and my son in prison, that's absolutely their experience, that's not mine. I don't get any credit for enduring that. I never give myself any credit for enduring that.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Brother, Son, Giving

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• It is a huge amount of pressure playing someone like Valerie Plame-Wilson. First of all who she is and what she's done is wildly intimidating and impressive. It is just scary to take on that responsibility, and you want to honor her story, an incredible story that affected us all. She is often doing things that were confusing to me, like her sexual prowess. I think that she is in a lot of pain and she has been really badly wounded along the way. She doesn't hold men in the highest regard... not just men but people.

  Naomi Watts

  Responsibility, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.fanbolt.com

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• Hey. Pain can last a moment, it can last a day, it can last a week, it can last a long..long time, but it can't last forever and the only thing that can last forever is if you quit.

  Lance Armstrong

  Long, Forever, Quitting

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• Business is full of pain and hardship and with that, laughter and release.

  Ronnie Apteker

  Laughter, Hardship

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• I think most entrepreneurs would refer to themselves as "accidental". No one looks for stress and pain. You stumble on to it. Also, no one looks for pots of gold, it just happens.

  Ronnie Apteker

  Stress, Thinking, Entrepreneur

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• From person's movement patterns I can tell a lot of things: if pain is in the body, whether someone is depressed, what age they are. When you see someone whose chest is withdrawn, their deltoids are rolled forward. That's someone whose history has broken them, in a sense. You can recognize that movement of pulling away and protecting the heart across all cultures.

  Dana Tai Soon Burgess

  Heart, Broken, Age

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I feel like there's no need to put on a heel that's too high. There's nothing cute about wobbling. There's nothing cute about not wanting to dance or walk somewhere because you're in pain.

  Yara Shahidi

  Cute, Heels

  Source: www.elle.com

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• In India the government is very chaotic and poorly run. They are forced into action by public pressure. When it's a larger event, there's a lot more pressure - to do something, to investigate, to give some kind of compensation to the victims. With the smaller attacks, the pain is concentrated on those affected, because they've not just been forgotten by everyone else, which is normal, they've also been forgotten by the government, which lets the cases drag on for years in the courts.

  Karan Mahajan

  Running, Giving, Action

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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