Life Is Pain Quotes

• Life is pain, so live it up while you can.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Pain, Live It Up

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• Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

  Havelock Ellis

  Love, Life, Pain

  On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue 2

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• Grow up. Get a life. Life is pain. Anybody who tells you something other than that is trying to sell you something.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Pain

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

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.84, Lulu.com

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• Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

  Cesare Pavese

  Love, Life, Friendship

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.74, Transaction Publishers

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• The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.

  Joseph Campbell

  Motivational, Pain, Suffering

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• The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Letter to Maria Cosway, 12 October (1786)

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• Everyone suffers; life is pain; and death is the final punctuation at the end of that sentence, so deal with it. I really think you can manage pain and suffering by living in fullness and being true to yourself and all those seemingly vapid platitudes.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Pain, Thinking, Suffering

  "True Myth: A Conversation With Sufjan Stevens". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. February 16, 2015.

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• Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.

  William Goldman

  Life, Pain, Selling

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• When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Children, Pain, Men

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.22, Regnery Publishing

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  One word
  Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
  That word is love.

  Sophocles

  Love, Life, Wedding

  "Oedipus at Colonus". Play by Sophocles, Lines 1616-1618,

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• Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. If this is true, or if you are one of the people who believe this is true, then the one universal way to enjoy life is still the same, which is to learn to be grateful that it is not worse!!

  William Goldman

  Gratitude, Pain, Believe

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• The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Art, Pain, Rocks

  Thomas Jefferson (1830). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.51

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• There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer --committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.

  George Eliot

  Peace, Morning, Pain

  "Felix Holt, the Radical". Book by George Eliot. Introductory chapter, 1866.

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• Men sometimes confess they love war because it puts them in touch with the experience of being alive. In going to the office every day, you don't get that experience, but suddenly in war, you are ripped back into being alive. Life is pain; life is suffering; and life is horror - but, by God, you are alive.

  Joseph Campbell

  Pain, War, Live Life

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.141, Anchor

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• Life is pain...anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something

  Christopher Paolini

  Pain, Life Is, Selling

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• Pain is life. Life is pain.

  Katherine Applegate

  Pain, Life Is

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• Inconceivable!" "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

  William Goldman

  Funny, Movie, Princess

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.77, A&C Black

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• Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.

  George Eliot

  Pain, Sorrow, Ears

  George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.14

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• The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Sibling, Character

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• Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be "lifelong"? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?

  Cesare Pavese

  Love, Pain, Men

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.74, Transaction Publishers

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• You send me all these roses. Every time I think the last bouquet has arrived, finally, another turns up. I’m running out of vases. I didn’t know roses came in so many colors. You say they’re the perfect symbols of love because they have thorns and love is pain. I say life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. And you don’t get it. You say you love me, but you don’t speak my language. You don’t even realize I’m an orchid girl.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Girl, Running, Pain

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