Pain Quotes

One thing you can’t hide is when you’re crippled inside.

We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

To pain I respond with tears and outcries, to baseness with indignation, to filth with loathing. To my mind, that is just what is called life.[На боль я отвечаю криком и слезами, на подлость – негодованием, на мерзость – отвращением. По-моему, это, собственно, и называется жизнью.]

The greatest leverage you can create for yourself is the pain that comes from inside, not outside. Knowing that you have failed to live up to your own standards for your life is the ultimate pain.

Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain clings cruelly to us.

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

People will do more to avoid pain than they will to gain pleasure.

Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.[La douleur est diverse comme l’homme. On souffre comme on peut.]

Now more than ever seems it rich to die, to cease upon the midnight with no pain.

My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It’s psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I’m always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.

Men take more pains to mask than mend.

If evils come not, then our fears are vain:
And if they do, Fear but augments the pain.