Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead.
there won't be any pain, he promised. Only an eternity together. Come back to me. (Stanton, book #5)
Pain is easy to write. In pain we're all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness?
There is no recollection which time does not put an end to, and no pain which death does not remove.
What is next to ecstasy? Pain. What is next to pain? Nothingness. What is next to nothingness? Hell.
Momma gettin' older feelin' pains In her shoulder. I gotta stay focused and remain a little soldier.
To act, you must know pain. You must know what it means to be in love, what it means to be rejected.
The pain of being in a bad relationship is confusing. When it's over - it's over. No more confusion!
I wake up thinking of yesterday. The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday.
The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others.
When I write my songs, I'm writing about the pain, the joy, and the ridiculousness of being a human.
And I loved this moment for all it's pain...We seemed for a moment like two parts of the same thing.
In buskined measures move Pale Grief and pleasing Pain, With Horror, tyrant of the throbbing breast.
The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.
Satan exploits pain by making it the central focus of the man’s (or woman’s) thoughts and attitudes.
The reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer.
The absence of pain means death, so when something no longer bothers you, you've died to that thing.
She was in pain and I loved her, sort of loved her, I guess, so I kind of had to love her pain, too.
When the lives of the unborn are snuffed out, they often feel pain, pain that is long and agonizing.
Nothing can relieve the pain. Not crying, laughing, screaming, begging. Nothing can change the past.
True optimism is not the prospect of control over pain or elimination of it but survival through it.
Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.
The (atomic) soul is mortal, and the best life is the one with the least pain and the most pleasure.
We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.
We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves
A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain.
... While nervous tension may be a component of stress, one can be stressed without feeling tension.
Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.
People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.
I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt but I was wrong.
The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.
When a man is on the verge of passing out from pain, it seemed wrong to notice how beautiful he was.
My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days.
Compassion can shoulder the suffering of the entire world without feeling the slightest bit of pain.
Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.
To look to God is to look to the realm of consciousness that can deliver us from the pain of living.