Quotes by Pain You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace; and though theologians insist that grace is freely given, the truth is that sometimes you pay for it through the nose. And you can't pay your child's way. Anne Lamott pain grace children I'm a right pain in the hole for my agent. I won't take certain parts if I think they're offensive or banal. For instance, I won't do a film if I think it's full of violence for violence's sake, or a television drama if I don't think it's intelligent writing. Anne-Marie Duff pain writing drama ...when we say we're looking for a spiritual adviser, we're really looking for someone to tell us what to do with our bodies. Decisions of the flesh. We forget to learn from pleasure as well as pain. Anne Michaels pain decision spiritual Go with the pain, let it take you. Open your palms and your body to the pain. It comes in waves like the tide and you must be open as a vessel lying on the beach, letting it fill you up and then, retreating, leaving you empty and clear. Anne Morrow Lindbergh pain beach lying The signs that presage growth, so similar, it seems to me, to those in early adolescence: discontent, restlessness, doubt, despair, longing, are interpreted falsely as signs of decay. In youth one does not as often misinterpret the signs; one accepts them, quite rightly, as growing pains. One takes them seriously, listens to them, follows where they lead. ... But in the middle age, because of the false assumption that it is a period of decline, one interprets these life-signs, paradoxically, as signs of approaching death. Anne Morrow Lindbergh growth pain doubt Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt. Anne Morrow Lindbergh disguise pain suffering ... once you get beyond the crust of the first pang it is all the same and you can easily bear it. It is just the transition from painlessness to pain that is so terrible. Anne Morrow Lindbergh transition pain firsts Sometimes growing pains are by fits and starts. Anne Northup growing pain sometimes Maybe right and wrong did not move, but understanding of them did. The wrenching pain of walking the same path, even for a short space, tore away the willingness to judge. Anne Perry pain space moving some kinds of beauty did not heal, but hollowed the pain even deeper. Anne Perry pain kind beauty I bought the sweetness with this pain. Anne Reeve Aldrich sweetness pain Writers write about what obsesses them. You draw those cards. I lost my mother when I was 14. My daughter died at the age of 6. I lost my faith as a Catholic. When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is. Anne Rice daughter pain mother Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is. Anne Rice pleasure pain Advice to a new writer: There are no rules in this profession. Do what is good for you. Read books and watch films that stimulate your writing. In your writing, go where the pain is; go where the pleasure is; go where the excitement is. Believe in your own original approach, voice, characters, story. Ignore critics. Have nerve. Be stubborn. Anne Rice pain believe book I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing. Anne Rice pain painful song And I loved this moment for all it's pain...We seemed for a moment like two parts of the same thing. Anne Rice pain moments two The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain. Anne Rice pleasure pain literature Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls? Anne Rice pain garden song When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is. Anne Rice pain darkness writing What if I could give you your life back; pluck out the pain; and give you a world of unimaginable beauty that would be for all time. Anne Rice pain beauty giving «1718192021222324252627»