Quotes on Pain

Love is the felt experience of connection to another being. An economist says 'more for you is less for me.' But the lover knows that more of you is more for me too. If you love somebody their happiness is your happiness. Their pain is your pain. Your sense of self expands to include other beings. This shift of consciousness is universal in everybody, 99% and 1%.

Pain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure.

There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

God cannot send to eternal pain a man who has done something toward improving the condition of his fellow-man. If he can, I had rather go to hell than to heaven and keep company with such a god.

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.

What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.

Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared.

Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran, Pleasure with pain for leaven, Summer with flowers that fell, Remembrance fallen from heaven, And Madness risen from hell, Strength without hands to smite, Love that endures for a breath; Night, the shadow of light, And Life, the shadow of death.

Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people's pain, and feeling a need to help them, as though all this were someone else's responsibility and not our own.

Every need brings what's needed._x000D_ _x000D_ Pain bears its cure like a child._x000D_ _x000D_ Having nothing produces provisions._x000D_ _x000D_ Ask a difficult question,_x000D_ _x000D_ And the marvelous answer appears.

When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name.

The pain I felt was my father's pain.

From afar, it seems like a war without a solution and like a long sacrifice for the entire country. So when a president appears who tries to open a path to peace, I think that deserves support, because there is a lot of pain, and if they try to settle scores, the war will never end. But there is an opportunity. I would feel selfish if I did not help in any way.

That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.

Success on a cosmic level completely eludes me. I'm deeply suspicious of things being too good. It's part of my superstition, I think, to generate pain in order to give the illusion of gain. I'm not saying I reject success, but honestly, I don't quite know how to deal with it. It's an old feeling: As soon as you have the thing you've been going after all your life, that reasonable degree of security, you start kicking against it, doubting it.

When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.

Make sure your son and daughter understands they don't get to decide when or where they go to war. It is rich, predominantly white men in the House and Senate that have the power to send children of other parents - but not their own children - off to die [and] be injured in a senseless war.

What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark

Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not a member of our own species.