Pain Quotes - Page 32

• Often, everywhere we look, we seem to find obstacles and facades and smokescreens, so it was really nice to find things in the world that actually spoke to me. And I felt like Eastern thought really spoke to me. Because it isn't trying to cover up the pain in life; it's trying to deal with it and overcome it in an intelligent way. I think the reason I love Eastern thought so much, and mysticism in general - but especially Buddhism - is because it seems to me an attempt to look life squarely in the face, as it is.

  Jeff Mangum

  Nice, Buddhism, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You should see ballerinas' feet. They don't have nails. You see beauty, but it's unbelievable pain - with a 40-year pension! That's it, and then life is really finished.

  Marina Abramovic

  Unbelievable, Pension

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There was a period of a few months, however, when I had a dreadful physical pain. I had just started writing a particular section of the novel and was initially worried that it would affect my work. I was woken by awful nightmares; I saw several doctors, tests were performed, nothing came of them, and the medics were mystified.It was two days after I finished writing the section that the penny dropped. The pain had suddenly disappeared and so too had the nightmares. I'd got things muddled. The pain and the nightmares were both psychosomatic.

  Zia Haider Rahman

  Writing, Nightmare, Worried

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think any time you deal with humans and the way they exploit one another and cause pain you are in the realm of politics, on some level.

  Rachel Kushner

  Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Even the mistakes and the pain that you've caused and enacted upon you. That is definitely what I'm trying to capture

  Greg Mottola

  Mistake, Trying

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• In the U.S., you couldn't have job creation with interest rates of 30 or 40 percent. They had a philosophy that said job creation was automatic. I wish it were true. Just a short while after hearing, from the same preachers, sermons about how globalization and opening up capital markets would bring them unprecedented growth, workers were asked to listen to sermons about "bearing pain." Wages began falling 20 to 30 percent, and unemployment went up by a factor of two, three, four, or ten.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Philosophy, Fall, Growth

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• As important as politics are to me, the life and the spirit of people's emotions are much more important. People live real lives where they love and grieve and feel pain and joy and that is a whole separate sphere. All that political stuff, I believe in it strongly, but not as strongly as I believe that at some point you or someone is going to need a song to sit with and comfort them in a hard time.

  John Darnielle

  Song, Real, Believe

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• I think when a society has such a profoundly dark and awful evil such as slavery in its history, then it leaves scars that are very, very deep. And unless we collectively address them and really put our effort to healing them, they'll perpetuate. The United States of America are still suffering from the echoes of slavery. I think we're still reeling from all the pain that is a result of it, and that's a reality.

  Ani DiFranco

  Healing, Dark, Reality

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• With the turmoil, with the vicissitudes, with the pain we inflict on each other, love is possible. Sometimes the roads cross and it's worth doing it. Go for it, it's worth it.

  Carole Bouquet

  Love Is, Sometimes, Worth It

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• For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain, but I like that. It's a reality, and I just accept it as something not to be avoided. This is the life I have. This is the life I write about.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Writing, Reality, Accepting

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• Most of the nations that have serious gardening cultures have, or had, empires. You can't have this luxury of pleasure without somebody paying for it. This is nice to know. It's nice to know that when you sit down to enjoy a plate of strawberries, somebody got paid very little so that you could have your strawberries. It doesn't mean the strawberries will taste different, but it's nice to enjoy things less than we do. We enjoy things far too much, and it leads to incredible pain and suffering.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Nice, Mean, Suffering

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• Writing does not numb, comfort, or soothe me. It does the opposite. It tends to excite me and reinscribe pain. It doesn't function as exorcism.

  Myriam Gurba

  Writing, Comfort, Numb

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• I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.

  Diane Abbott

  Children, Thinking, Soul

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• I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry... just make me feel alive.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Passion, Names, Laughing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

  Joseph Addison

  Happiness, Patience, Disappointment

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• Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

  Joseph Addison

  Honesty, Integrity, Grief

  Joseph Addison (1837). “The Spectator, no. 1-314”, p.251

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• Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

  Joseph Addison

  Love, Life, Treasure

  Joseph Addison (1811). “The Works of the Right Honorable Joseph Addison”, p.283

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• Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

  Joseph Addison

  Learning, Men, Organization

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.135

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• What good is it to live a life that brings pains?

  Aeschylus

  Literature

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• Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?

  Aeschylus

  Lifetime, Length, Whole

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• Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

  Aeschylus

  Forever, Without Pain

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.39, University of Chicago Press

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• Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.

  Christina Aguilera

  Passion, Soul, Raw Emotion

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• To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.

  Alcaeus

  Drinking, Grief, Thinking

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• Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Motivational, Broken Heart, Educational

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• Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.

  Tori Amos

  Life, Self, Giving

  Song: Little Earthquakes, Album: Little Earthquakes, 1992

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