I drank to drown my pain, but the damned pain learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good behavior.


Frida Kahlo

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I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this ...
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I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
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I tried to drown my sorrows but the bastards learned how to swim.
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My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches ...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK
I love Frida Kahlo.
PAZ DE LA HUERTA
I'm attracted to artists like Frida Kahlo, because her work was her life, her questions, her out...
MADONNA CICCONE
I can't drown my demons, they know how to swim"
BRING ME THE HORIZON
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
I am both numb and oversensitive, overwhelmed by the need, the raw and desperate need of the girls I...
RACHEL LLOYD
I thought I am kissing pain and pain belongs to You as happiness never does. I love You in Your pain...
GRAHAM GREENE
Mais Frida ne se représente pas comme un personnage sacré, car elle constate son état avec une cr...
HAYDEN HERRERA
Ich habe immer gedacht, dass ich die seltsamste Person auf dieser Welt bin, aber später dachte ich,...
FRIDA KAHLO
I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It'...
ANTHONY HAMILTON
Painting completed my life. I lost three children and a series of other things that would have fulfi...
MARTHA ZAMORA
It's important not to insist that people try things against their will. The palate is for pleasure, ...
F. G. HAGHENBECK
Sufrí dos accidentes graves en la vida. El primero ocurrió cuando me atropelló un tranvía... El ...
GéRARD DE CORTANZE
i paint flowers so they will not die
FRIDA KAHLO
The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb' (Andre Breton qtd. p. 55)
CHRISTINA BURRUS
They will say I smoked cigarettes and marijuana, cursed hoarse as a crow in all my languages, and lo...
KATE BRAVERMAN
I often think I can walk on water, but there are many times when I am glad I learned how to swim.
JIM GENOVESE
I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It&...
ANTHONY HAMILTON
Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
OVID
My tears have let me drown into a sea of regret and pain.
SAIDA HOSHI
There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
PALOMA FAITH
You can run but you can't hide... but I can try. I feel air catch in my lungs and I get a cramp in m...
JODI PICOULT
I had totally anticipated being ready to play last January because my doctor had said three months, ...
ANDREW MAGEE
I am feeling good with my shoulder and this is the most important thing. I have no pain and I know t...
CARLOS MOYA
The pain caused to the parents by this dreadful sequence of events is unforgivable. I am deeply sorr...
ALAN MILBURN
I've learned, after 18 years of gathering information, to eat, then check in with my body - how ...
CARLA KORBES
I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.
MAYA ANGELOU
I've never formally trained for pain management, but I have a good understanding of how to conqu...
CRISS ANGEL
Endure and persist, this pain will turn good by and by.
OVID
I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.
STING
I have gained wisdom from leaning into my pain, in not allowing the hounds of hell to snap at my hee...
STEVE AUSTIN
La high society de aquí me cae muy gorda y siento un poco de rabia contra todos estos ricachones, p...
GéRARD DE CORTANZE
Me gusta tener amigos, pero pocos", reconoce, dando de paso su definición de la amistad: " La amist...
GéRARD DE CORTANZE
I am what the water gave me, / a smoke-ring in a jar, / the braided rope / my ladder-to-the-light, /...
PASCALE PETIT
I had totally anticipated being ready to play last January because my doctor had said three months, ...
ANDREW MAGEE
Whomever tries to drown their sorrows by drinking should know one thing: they know how to swim!
ANONYMOUS
You're thoughtful, Barbara, but you're not open. You're passionate, but you're hard. You're a good, ...
TRACY LETTS
And I...drown myself in the music. Not to mask the pain, but to lose it. I don't really care what yo...
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER
I have acute pain in my right shoulder which is very stiff. I could have played by taking pain kille...
SHOAIB AKHTAR
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
BELLAMY BROOKS
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
BELLAMY BROOKS
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool
BELLAMY BROOKS
The more pain I train myself to stand, the more I learn. You are afraid of pain now, Unk, but you wo...
KURT VONNEGUT
I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how t...
TYLER PERRY
I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of...
DEREK JARMAN
My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat...
PAULA POUNDSTONE
If I wasn't feeling good I would be the first to say so, but the pain is now minimal and I can put u...
JULIO BAPTISTA
Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the...
JONATHAN TROPPER
Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it’s true love, and the answer is this: when t...
JONATHAN TROPPER
I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things tha...
AUDRE LORDE
I have been increasingly aware and concerned that I have a disease. I am an alcoholic. Through this ...
SEN. MARIO GALLEGOS
I learned a lot about pain and suffering during 'Pan Am.' We had to wear very constricting p...
MARGOT ROBBIE
I am a bull. I am Taurus. My will is awful. If I like something, there is nothing else. I was a pain...
ELSA PERETTI
Then [good manners] must be inspired by the good heart. There is no beautifier of complexion, or for...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
I want 'Flesh Of My Flesh' to be like my connection to the community, I want to say what'...
DMX
To this day, I am saddened by Ranger Tillman's death, as I am for the loss of every service memb...
STANLEY A. MCCHRYSTAL
They said that she needed to cry it out, to deal with her emotions all the way. I needed to cry this...
CHARLIE EBERSOL
Now I drink my pain away hoping the memories will go away, but they always seem to stay
JENNIFER BALLESTEROS
Believe it or not, I feel pain, pain for my daughter and pain for him too. I know where he's going t...
CRUZ CARDER
How will you know I am hurting if you cannot see my pain? To wear it on my body tells what words can...
CORIE BLOUNT
I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big...
BEN FOLDS
I'm not going to say there's absolutely no pain, but I can play. Now it's just like going out and be...
CHARDE HOUSTON
I may be in pain, but I am not weak.
VERONICA ROTH
I am addicted to prescription pain medication.
RUSH LIMBAUGH
My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat...
PAULA POUNDSTONE
A person feels the pain in judicious proportion to the sensitive nature cherished in own world; othe...
ANUJ SOMANY
The purpose of the cyclic nature of pleasure and pain in life is to regain the inner power of the mi...
ANUJ SOMANY
Let the rain wash away all the pain of yesterday
CAITLYN LAIDLAW
My dad just walked around in pain for 10 years. My mom, it just finished her off. ... She drank hers...
CLIFFORD CHUBB
It's coming along pretty good. I still feel some pain in the thumb but I can handle the pain.
JEN KOLLAER
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Half to forget the wandering and pain,/ Half to remember days that have gone by,/ And dream and drea...
JAMES ELROY FLECKER
Is more for precaution. You don't know tomorrow what's happen, no? But now I am happy because I don'...
RAFAEL NADAL
You would like to know how I behave when I am experiencing pain, not writing books about it. You nee...
C.S. LEWIS
leaving is not enough; you must
stay gone. train your heart
like a dog. change the locks<...
MARTY MCCONNELL
I've never been in any pain, ever, like that in my whole life. Now it's set me so far back, ...
DIANA NYAD
The pain was bad. The doctors told me I was born with weak tissue there. But I am ready to play this...
CORI BOSTON
I could drown in a frown and swim in a smile.
UNKNOWN
I will kill myself soon. But until then how do l tame my pain?
SONALI DERANIYAGALA
Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other ...
LEV GROSSMAN
Instead of seeing how much pain I can dish out towards those I disagree with, or who I believe have ...
ASPEN BAKER
I succeeded to gain more pain, healthy pain. The privilege to raise my children.
RICHARD JR CHIEF CALF
Without the upbringing I received from my Mother, I am not the good and decent person I am today. Th...
MIKE MCMILLAN
For with knowledge comes pain. To limit the pain I limit my answers.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
I think everyone holds back. I am always censoring myself and I'm sorry about it. But I always have ...
JOHN HALL
I am fortunate to look back on my life with all of its promises and pain, smilee, and forgive myself...
TERENCE T. GORSKI
We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. ...
HENRY CLOUD
Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.
ROBERT GARY LEE
The pain is real. Flowing as a brook beneath my flesh. I am broken, and yet, I still breathe.
E.M. BENTON
Discipline

I am old and I have had
more than my share of good and bad.

I'...
MERYL GORDON
Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny th...
HARUKI MURAKAMI
July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I...
DIEGO RIVERA
When I see pain in others. I feel great. The glory seeing pain is what thrills me. What I live for, ...
IVANN RODRIGUEZ
Having a child doesn't make a woman a mother any more than owning a paintbrush makes her Frida K...
KOREN ZAILCKAS
I was really looking forward to playing in New Haven again, but unfortunately the pain on my neck ha...
GUSTAVO KUERTEN
I mean, I think I am basically a cool girl, but I am also a pain in the ass.
RACHEL COHN

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