Pain Quotes

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  It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.

  Rose Kennedy

  Time, Get Well, Healing

  Stanley Weintraub, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, John McDonald Burke, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward (1974). “Whistler”

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• There is no gains without pain.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Gains, Without Pain

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• Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance

  Robert Blair

  Remembrance, Joy, Departed

  Robert Blair, Robert Anderson (1802). “The Poetical Works of Robert Blair: Containing The Grave, Etc., to which is Prefixed, A Life of the Author, by Robert Anderson, Accompanied by Prints, Designed and Engraved by W. Gardiner”, p.9

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• Everything passes. Joy. Pain. The moment of triumph; the sigh of despair. Nothing lasts forever - not even this.

  Paul Stewart

  Joy, Forever, Despair

  "Midnight Over Sanctaphrax". Book by Chris Riddell, Paul Stewart, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2000.

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• The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Boyfriend, Wisdom

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• Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Murakami Haruki, (2012). “L'arte di correre”, p.8, Giulio Einaudi Editore

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• There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Sad, Depression, Hurtful

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• Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

  Bob Dylan

  Sad, Beautiful, Kind

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• You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

  J. K. Rowling

  Grief, Sorrow, Care

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• So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.

  Matthew Henry

  Sigh, Anguish, Extremity

  Matthew Henry (1839). “An Exposition of the Old and New Testament: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents: Job-Solomon's Song. 1839”, p.24

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• Pain and guilt can't be taken away with the wave of a magic wand. They're the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away! I need my pain!

  William Shatner

  Taken, Cynical, Magic

  "Fictional character: James T. Kirk". "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier", 1989.

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• Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

  Ovid

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  It's easy to look at people and make quick judgments about them, their present and their past, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceberg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Past, Sight, People

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.526, Macmillan

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  There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

  Aeschylus

  Missing You, Memories, Grief

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• If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Broken Heart, Hurt

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• Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

  Robert E. Lee

  Wisdom, Love Pain, Healed

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• The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.

  Publilius Syrus

  Inspirational, Mind, Body

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• To heal our wounds, we need courage to face them.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Courage, Healing

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 29, 2011

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• Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Inspirational, Positive, Courage

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• Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Teacher, Soul, Suffering

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• Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Beauty, Nature, Intelligence

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• Turn your wounds into wisdom.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Oprah Winfrey (2017). “The Wisdom of Sundays: Life-Changing Insights and Inspirational Conversations”, p.120, Pan Macmillan

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• After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

  Emily Dickinson

  Feelings, Literature, Nerves

  'After great pain, a formal feeling comes' (1862)

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• Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

  Walter Anderson

  Moving On, Thankful, Gratitude

  Walter Anderson (1997). “The Confidence Course: Seven Steps to Self-Fulfillment”, Harpercollins

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• How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Fear, Self Esteem, Evil

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