Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain. Votes: 2
William FaulknerNature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. Votes: 2
Jeremy BenthamThere is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. Votes: 2
Erma BombeckGod whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains. Votes: 2
C. S. LewisThere is one pain, I often feel, which you will never know. It's caused by the absence of you. Votes: 2
Ashleigh BrilliantPain and frustration vanish in the sunlight of your smile.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellAnything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellOf all the kind of pains, the greatest pain is to love and to love in vain.
George Granville, 1st Baron LansdownePleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.
Claude Adrien HelvetiusOne saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble.
Augustus William HarePain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerAh, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.
George William RussellYour own pain is involuntary; you feel overwhelmed and have no control. When feeling the pain of others, there is an element of discomfort, but there also is a level of stability because you are voluntarily accepting pain. It gives you a sense of confidence. Votes: 3 Dalai Lama
The marathon always starts after 30K. That's where the problems start. You start without any problems, without any pain. All the pain comes after 30K. Sometimes, it's possible to have pain even in the finger. Votes: 1 Haile Gebrselassie
Everybody needs a way out of that pain. Many people choose drugs and alcohol. Some people obsessively exercise or develop strange dietary habits, which is what I did. At least it got me toward a path of healthier living. Votes: 1 Mariel Hemingway
When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important. Votes: 6 Andrew Shue
Vodka does not ease back pain. But it does get your mind off it. Votes: 3 Fuzzy Zoeller
I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings, and I did it out of spite. Votes: 4 Vincent Gallo
When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place. Votes: 1 Annie Lennox
He loved her, and would love her; and defy her, and this miserable bodily pain. Votes: 3 Elizabeth Gaskell
Some days, 24 hours is too much to stay put in, so I take the day hour by hour, moment by moment. I break the task, the challenge, the fear into small, bite-size pieces. I can handle a piece of fear, depression, anger, pain, sadness, loneliness, illness. I actually put my hands up to my face, one next to each eye, like blinders on a horse. Votes: 1 Regina Brett
If you've ever had a brush with cancer, you're always thinking a pain might be something serious. Votes: 1 Ann Jillian
There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing. Votes: 3 Roger Caras
The language of America changed with the election of Bill Clinton, because with all due respect to my friends on the Republican side, Bill Clinton is the best communicator of the last 50 years. He felt your pain. Votes: 1 Frank Luntz
I was having chest pains. Photoshop made it glamorous. Votes: 4 Jennifer Lawrence
I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy. Votes: 3 Tyler Perry
Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain. Votes: 6 Gene Tierney
My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that. Votes: 1 Jennifer Aniston
Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain. Votes: 1 William Styron
Whether we fear pain and suffering or not, pain and suffering will come to everyone. Why not keep our minds focused on where we want to go? Votes: 3 Radhanath Swami
In terms of withstanding incredible amounts of pain - both physical and emotional - I don't think there's any better training than ballet. Votes: 1 Julia Jones
Social rejection doesn't just cause emotional pain; it affects our physical being. Votes: 5 Leonard Mlodinow
Phaedra of Alonso's death was a never-ending pain that gnawed at his insides. It made him a prisoner in his own cottage. Votes: 3 Melina Marchetta
The challenge of life is regretless decision making, relentless pursuit of vision with faith, forgiving others, enduring pain with a smile & achieving goals with an extra MILE Votes: 3 Sujit Lalwani
We . . . must try to live without causing unnecessary harm, not just to fellow humans but to all beings. We must try not to be stingy, or to exploit others. There will be enough pain in the world as it is. Votes: 2 Gary Snyder
Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise. Votes: 1 Bear Grylls
It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful. Votes: 1 Sylvester Stallone
Courage is not the absence of fear and pain, but the affirmation of life despite fear and pain. Votes: 4 Earl A Grollman
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself. Votes: 1 Norman Cousins
There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of death. You see, something happens when the body knows it's about to go. Peptide hormones are released by cells in the hypothalamus and pituitary gland. Endorphins. They attach themselves to the cells responsible for feeling pain. Votes: 6 Lewis Thomas
For me, triathlons were something that was down to me and my fitness. Now, I really enjoy the pain in the triathlon of chasing someone down. It's a bit like chasing down Nico Rosberg in the last few laps at Silverstone - it makes you feel alive. Votes: 1 Jenson Button
My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh. Votes: 3 Jim Carrey
Most of us need time to work through pain and loss. We can find all manner of reasons for postponing forgiveness. One of these reasons is waiting for the wrongdoers to repent before we forgive them. Yet such a delay causes us to forfeit the peace and happiness that could be ours. Votes: 1 James E. Faust
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point. Votes: 1 Arthur Schopenhauer
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom. Votes: 2 Rumi
Maybe if everyone walked around being in touch with each other's hidden pain it could work out and even be beautiful, but it doesn't feel safe to be the only compassionate person on the planet. Votes: 3 Michelle Tea
All the Hennessy and weed can't hide, the pain i feel inside, its like I'm living just to die. Votes: 3 Tupac Shakur
In everything I write, I'm always striving to hit the right mix of light and darkness, humor and pain, fun and seriousness. Votes: 3 Greg van Eekhout
While we may not consider the way we talk to be 'violent,' our words often lead to hurt and pain, whether for others or for ourselves. Votes: 2 Marshall B. Rosenberg
When inward tenderness finds the secret hurt, pain itself will crack the rock and Ah! Let the soul emerge... Votes: 2 Rumi
Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester. Votes: 1 Karen Armstrong
The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves. Votes: 2 Mark Twain
When I started studying acting in New York, I didn't plan to be an action hero. I just wanted to learn acting because I felt it was something I needed to try to do for myself, to express something, my inner pain, or something I couldn't get out. Votes: 3 Dolph Lundgren
time is a terrible thing because it erases joys and pains at the same time. Votes: 3 Gosho Aoyama
There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain. Votes: 3 Dan Simmons
It's so important for those living with chronic pain to establish good communication with both their healthcare professionals and caregivers. Clear communication about pain is vital to receiving proper diagnosis and effective treatment. Votes: 1 Naomi Judd
I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful. Votes: 4 Robert Plant
Researches tested a new form of medical marijuana that treats pain but doesn't get the user high, prompting patients who need medical marijuana to declare, 'Thank you?' Votes: 1 Jimmy Fallon
One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives. Votes: 4 Polly Toynbee
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. Votes: 0 Bob Marley
It gives a fellow an awful shiver to hear the first shovelful of dirt and gravel rattle down upon the coffin; but after it is covered, it falls gently and makes no sound. The feeling of rest is perfect. There's no more nagging, no more pain! Votes: 3 William Morris Hunt
I spend long days wearing a corset - but no pain, no gain. Votes: 3 Phyllis Logan
A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it. Votes: 4 Lindsay Wagner
Maybe, it is easier to forget the past,than to overcome the pain caused by it.Maybe, it is one of some other reasons,why men forget their prehuman ancestor. Votes: 3 Toba Beta
We know that hockey is where we live, where we can best meet and overcome pain and wrong and death. Life is just a place where we spend time between games. Votes: 2 Fred Shero
You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement. Votes: 1 Ben Stein
When you let go, you lose pain and gain insight. Votes: 3 Alexandra Stoddard
Pain is pain, hurt is hurt, fear is fear, anger is anger, and it has no color. Votes: 2 Iyanla Vanzant
Postural exercises such as yoga, Pilates, Egoscues, Alexander technique and martial arts are about avoiding pain and injury as much as helping you feel good. Attractive men and women have good posture. Votes: 3 Liz Miller
No. The universe has to move forward. Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love. Whether it's a world, or a relationship... Everything has its time. And everything ends. Votes: 2 Elisabeth Sladen
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other. Votes: 3 Laurence Sterne
Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed. Votes: 2 Joseph Butler
For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering. Votes: 3 Fyodor Dostoevsky
We often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, over-reacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally. Votes: 2 Dalai Lama
We often forget that Spain controlled big parts of Europe, in Italy and the Netherlands. In the Middle Ages, Spain and Portugal were so powerful that they signed a set of treaties literally dividing up the globe between them. Votes: 3 Max Fisher
A lot of people spend their last decade of their lives in pain and misery combating disease. Votes: 1 Craig Venter
I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing. Votes: 1 T-Pain
When you learn your lessons, the pain goes away. Votes: 3 Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
There's no such thing as addiction, there's only things that you enjoy doing more than life. Votes: 2 Doug Stanhope
I've never formally trained for pain management, but I have a good understanding of how to conquer it. I just analyze the pain, feel it in the moment, and then mentally become numb to it. Votes: 3 Criss Angel
I had a baby with no pain medicine, mainly because most people I talked to didn't think I'd be able to do it. So there! Votes: 3 Busy Philipps
If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love. Votes: 2 C. S. Lewis
pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence Votes: 2 Frida Kahlo
Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock. Votes: 2 Kurt Cobain
Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn. Votes: 1 Robert Browning
I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory. Votes: 1 Anthony Hamilton
Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal. Votes: 1 Polly Toynbee
Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation. Votes: 4 John Yoo
Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations. Votes: 4 Ernst Mach
A good idea if not acted upon produces terrible psychological pain. But a good idea acted upon brings enormous mental satisfaction. Got a good idea? Then do something about it. Use action to cure fear and gain confidence. Here's something to remember: Actions feed and strengthen confidence; inaction in all forms feeds fear. To fight fear, act. To increase fear--wait, put off, postpone. Votes: 2 David J. Schwartz
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends. Votes: 1 Tom Waits
I think there's always a bit of pain in everything that's ecstatic - relationships and love, they always come with pain. Votes: 1 Tove Lo
The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure. Votes: 1 Jiddu Krishnamurti
If you want relief from pain just strive to touch more of every part of life. Votes: 3 Bryant McGill
It is crucial to be healthy, for pain wipes out the possibility for pleasure, and severe pain removes the possibility of turning to the world outside the body. So we must establish the idea that it is important to look well, not to look young. Votes: 3 Karen DeCrow
God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces, which is why sharing pain freely feels very much like love, and may be the same thing. (207) Votes: 5 Keith Ablow
And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again. Votes: 1 Thomas Moore
Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile. Votes: 3 Mahmoud Darwish
Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again. Votes: 1 Bret Harte
Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion. Votes: 4 Christina Aguilera
I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm very vulnerable. Votes: 1 Janet Jackson
You can't get around pain and opposition, but you can try to be joyful in the trial, and thank yourself for the trial, and thank God for the strength to get through it. Votes: 1 Mary J. Blige
According to the mystics, this search for divine bliss is the entire purpose of a human life. this is why we all chose to be born, and this is why all the suffering and pain of life on earth is worthwhile--just for the chance to experience this infinite love. And once you have found this divinity within, can you hold it? Because if you can...bliss. Votes: 4 Elizabeth Gilbert
I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time. Votes: 4 T-Pain
People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction. Votes: 1 Paul Theroux
Golf isn't first on my list anymore. There are a lot of things ahead of golf and I have to go ahead and do those things so I can play golf. I'm tired of hurting. Tired of fighting pain. Votes: 1 Fuzzy Zoeller
But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things. Votes: 3 Richard Krajicek
Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled. Votes: 1 Dean Koontz
In terms of withstanding incredible amounts of pain - both physical and emotional - I don't think there's any better training than ballet. Votes: 1 Julia Jones
I think magic, whether I'm holding my breath or shuffling a deck of cards, is pretty simple. It's practice, it's training, and it's - It's practice, it's training and experimenting, while pushing through the pain to be the best that I can be. Votes: 1 David Blaine
Old pain doesn't completely die. Time may soothe it, stoke over it until it looks like it has healed, but it never dies properly. It stays with you, it lives in the cracks of your soul, waiting for moments when you feel true pain Votes: 3 Dorothy Koomson
Like it or not, i was already learning that in the worst and darkest time, I would find specks of light, moments of joy. What I didn't want to learn was the other, harsher lesson - that in life's brightest moments there would also be unbearable pain. p 87 Votes: 4 Melody Beattie
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Votes: 1 Khalil Gibran