Pain Quotes - Page 35

• Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful.

  Dick Cavett

  Feet, Years, Clubs

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• Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Happiness, Laughter, Laughing

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• When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

  Anton Chekhov

  Mean, Modern Life, Medical Science

  'The Cherry Orchard' (1904) act 2

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• Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.

  Deepak Chopra

  Self, Scary, Awareness

  "The Real Secret to Staying Healthy for Life (Part 3)" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2012.

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• Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account.

  Chris Christie

  Taken, Hands, Muslim Extremists

  "Christie: Both sides playing politics, don't paint all Muslims as 'radical'". www.politico.com. August 16, 2010.

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• Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Punishment, Catholic, Religion

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• Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Power, Bears, Habit

  "Dictionary Of Latin Quotations Proverbs Maximus And Mottos, Classical And Medieval, Including Law Terms And Phrases". Book by H. Z Riley, November 5, 2015.

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• Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Real, Suffering, Needs

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I'm discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it's a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.

  Eric Clapton

  Journey, Mixtures, Moments

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• My loving sister Mary has always shared the pain and pleasure of my heartbeat in a unique and special way. We have sung our sad and warm songs together.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Song, Unique, Special

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• Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

  Kurt Cobain

  Mean, Rocks, Musical

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• I've had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in the corner by myself looking sick and gloomy. The reason is that I was trying to fight against the stomach pain, trying to hold my food down. People looked me and assumed I was some kind of addict.

  Kurt Cobain

  Fighting, Years, People

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• My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.

  Kurt Cobain

  Guitar, Two, Irritation

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• Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.

  Andrew Cohen

  Men, Self, Ideas

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• For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.

  Paula Cole

  Anger, Humble, Compassion

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• Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Wisdom, Time, Long

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• There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

  Cyril Connolly

  Love, Strong, Two

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• Bullying is killing our kids. Being different is killing our kids and the kids who are bullying are dying inside. We have to save our kids whether they are bullied or they are bullying. They are all in pain.

  Cat Cora

  Bullying, Kids, Being Different

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• Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.

  Howard Cosell

  Courage, Morning, Bravery

  Howard Cosell (1974). “Like it is”

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• Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big trouble if you're borrowing more than you can ever afford to pay back. Delaying the pain for future generations is suicidal. We've got to start getting the deficit down right now, not next year.

  Simon Cowell

  Suicide, Running, Suicidal

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• Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.

  Roald Dahl

  Doctors, Knives, Doubt

  Roald Dahl (2016). “Boy and Going Solo”, p.107, Penguin UK

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• When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'

  Mitch Daniels

  Real, Government, Track

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• I don't particularly like going on about being gay or making a big thing about it, but I think it's a bit of a pain to be secretive about it.

  Evan Davis

  Gay, Thinking, Bigs

  "Think of me as a man of mystery" by Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. November 05, 2005.

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• I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.

  Jonathan Davis

  Flower, Painting, Guts

  FaceBook post by Jonathan Davis from Mar 21, 2017

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• A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.

  Don DeLillo

  Ideas, Catholic, Literature

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.81, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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