Pain Quotes - Page 34

• At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Time, Reading, Impossible

  "The Barretts at Hope End: the early diary of Elizabeth Barrett Browning".

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• Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.

  Robert Browning

  Passion, Heart, Infinite

  'Two in the Campagna' (1855) st. 12

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• If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Life, Unhappy, Bears

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• There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Life, Men, Events

  'Les Caractéres ou les moeurs de ce siécle' (1688) 'De l'homme'

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• You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Change, Fear, Ideas

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• If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Sad, Work Out, Doubt

  Song: The Weather Is Here, I Wish You Were Beautiful, Album: Coconut Telegraph, 1981

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• When you have adversity and you have pain, you never feel more alone than you do at that moment. And you can be surrounded by hundreds of thousands of people.

  Sandra Bullock

  Adversity, People, Moments

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• The mind is more powerful than anything. So, during the birth I wasn't thinking about the pain. I was in a meditation state. I was concentrating the whole time, thinking, 'Oh my God, it's time. I am going to meet my baby. What is he going to look like?'

  Gisele Bundchen

  Baby, Powerful, Thinking

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• As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on the bus, hearing them bang on about their aches and pains, both real and imagined.

  Julie Burchill

  Real, Kids, Bangs

  "Spare me from the whining women who are giving feminism a bad name". www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2012.

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• The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

  Edmund Burke

  Passion, Men, Grieving

  Edmund Burke (1834). “The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, and Portrait After Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.32

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• I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

  Samuel Butler

  Style, Smallest

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4227, Delphi Classics

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• To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

  Samuel Butler

  Beauty, Compassion, Make Happy

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• But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

  Lord Byron

  Hope, Truth, Faces

  Letter to Thomas Moore, 28 October 1815, in L. A. Marchand (ed.) 'Byron's Letters and Journals' vol. 4 (1975)

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• The degree of leverage now being reversed is on a staggering scale, and the underlying global imbalances – notably between the savers and the spenders – will require long and painful adjustment.

  Vince Cable

  Long, Degrees, Imbalance

  "The Storm: The World Economic Crisis and What It Means".

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• Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain.

  Nicolas Cage

  Opportunity, Use, Actors

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• My kids haven't watched one episode of 'Growing Pains'. I'll tell you why. When our kids were little, we never wanted Mommy or Daddy to be the celebrity mom or dad to our kids.

  Kirk Cameron

  Mom, Dad, Kids

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• My wife - I married my onscreen girlfriend from 'Growing Pains', Mike Seaver's girlfriend, and we've been married for 17 years - so marriage is very important to us.

  Kirk Cameron

  Girlfriend, Years, Wife

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• There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

  Roger Caras

  Inspirational, Fear, Three

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• I do get the comics online I guess but it's such a pain. I'd rather just get them in the paper and read them.

  Drew Carey

  Paper, Online

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• Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Motivational, Work

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• In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

  Leslie Caron

  Happiness, Happy, Order

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• If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

  Jim Carrey

  Karma, Regret, Life Lesson

  "Carrey: 'Life Is Too Beautiful'". www.cbsnews.com. November 18, 2004.

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• My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

  Jim Carrey

  Laughing, Focus, Forget

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• My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.

  Jim Carrey

  Christmas, Daughter, Mother

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• There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.

  Nick Cave

  Guarantees In Life, Surplus, One Thing

  "Feelings are a Bourgeois luxury". Interview with Lindsay Baker, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2003.

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