Francesca Lia Block Quotes

There's no way that I know of to avoid pain absolutely, but suffering is the interpretation we choose to place on the pain we encounter.

Pain is pain.

Even at 30 or 40, if something doesn't do well, it still hurts. If I pinch someone, the pain is going to be the same whether the person is young or old.

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

It's bizarre, a punch in the face hurts less when you win than when you lose.

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

All pain is the same.

Most people fear pain. I've learned that not feeling pain is a much more frightening proposition than feeling it. In fact, there are times when I'm playing when I actually enjoy it.

Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of everything, even pain.

This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.

Pain isn't always the enemy.

Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.

Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message.

The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision. Tears and not sight are the essence of the eye.

Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of.

There are times when you get hit upon, Try hard but you cannot give. Other times you'd gladly part, With what you need to live

Pain results from a judgment you have made about a thing. Remove the judgment and the pain disappears.

Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage

Often it's the deepest pain which empowers you to grow into your highest self.

It's pain that changes our lives.

To the old, sorrow is sorrow; to the young, it is despair.

It is always tedious when someone tells you that if you don't stop crying, they will give you something to cry about, because if you are crying then you already have something to cry about, and so there is no reason for them to give you anything additional to cry about, thank you very much.

The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.

Pain - has an Element of Blank It cannot recollect When it begun - or if there were a time when it was not - It has no Future - but itself - Its Infinite contain Its Past - enlightened to perceive New Periods - of Pain.

The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come out on the other side.