#pain

My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain. ↗

— Dick York

#back #down #floor #give #healed

If you have a guy like Jermaine, it's a pain in the neck. When we were on the road together in Europe, Jesus, I had to kick the girls off of him. I mean, they throw themselves on the floor and take off their hats. ↗

— Pia Zadora

#floor #guy #had #hats #him

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#effort #further #gets #himself #man

I was always a great bundle of energy. As a child, instead of walking, I would run. And so running, which is a pain to a lot of people, was always a pleasure to me because it was so easy. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#because #bundle #child #easy #energy

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#brother #doubt #his #know #lonely

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#pain #shell #understanding #your

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#dash #deal #dictionary #joy #pain

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#complete #created #eternal #foolishness #great

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy. ↗

— August Strindberg

#because #demands #energy #every #evolution

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss! ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#bliss #charming #colors #consummate #deceptive