Blaise Pascal Quotes

When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain.

Daydreamin' drugs the pain of living.

You can see desperation in people who are too eager to laugh because they're in such a hurry not to look at what's confronting them in their lives and that's kind of sad because there's a kind of pornographic aspect to it, of making some sort of pain go away, of hovering around a pain, making yourself numb, not feel anything.

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.

Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.

Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.

This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.

I wanted to understand pain and the human condition, which is full of pain and regret and sadness - and some happiness, if you're lucky.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.

My painting carries with it the message of pain.

Misery is a match that never goes out.

My son died from cancer. My granddaughter died from cancer. I have a lot of reasons to think that reality is not a friendly neighborhood. And the stories that I tell distract me, and if I do the job right, they distract people from things that are happening to them that they wish had never happened.

Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

Nobody knows the pain I've been through.

Suffering does not change its face.

I feel hurt and pain times a million, all the time.

Dancers dance through their pain I shrink from mine.

Keep me preoccupied Keep me busy, busy, busy So I won't have to think I don't want to think Because it only brings me pain I just keep running away from My problems Keep me busy Give me a million things to do So I can keep running away from myself.

We're gonna get high, high, high, when we're low. The fires burn from better days. She scream why, oh why? I said I don't know!

Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.

May new sufferings torment your soul.

Humor is an escape, because you cannot think about your problems when you are trying to be funny; so, in essence, "being a humorist" gives you a valid excuse to hide from your pain.

Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside of me suddenly required my comment or attention.

The wretched reflect either too much or too little.