#pain

God is a concept by which we measure our pain. ↗

— John Lennon

#god #measure #our #pain #which

They had lied, those who had extolled the virtues of love—its pleasures, its sublimity—those who had told her that it was beautiful and worthwhile. There was nothing beautiful about it. It was awful. ↗

— Sarah MacLean

#heartbreak #love #pain #beauty

I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer. ↗

— Hugh Leonard

#found #i #level #much #nicer

In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold. ↗

— John Leonard

#bad #bad times #boldness #cellars #hand

Some people take certain things and they try to forget what that pain felt like. I don't. I take that same pain and I chase it every time I walk in a weight room. ↗

— Ray Lewis

#certain things #chase #every #every time #felt

Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#borders #challenges #creates #globalisation #instruments

I shall give you hunger, and pain, and sleepless nights. Also beauty, and satisfactions known to few, and glimpses of the heavenly life. None of these you shall have continually, and of their coming and going you shall not be foretold. ↗

— Howard Lindsay

#beauty #coming #continually #few #foretold

In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world. ↗

— Federico Garcia Lorca

#any #country #dead #more #other

High heels are pleasure with pain. ↗

— Christian Louboutin

#high #high heels #pain #pleasure

Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear painful shoes. ↗

— Christian Louboutin

#character #elegance #happy #inner #men