Pain Quotes - Page 36

• Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

  Democritus

  Wind, Moderation, Pleasure

  "Source Book in Ancient Philosophy". Book by Charles Montague Bakewell, 1907.

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• If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others.

  Morarji Desai

  Men, Eugenics, Cost

  "19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967". The British Vegetarian, ivu.org. March/April 1968.

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• I write for the people I grew up with. I took extreme pains for my book to not be a native informant. Not: 'This is Dominican food. This is a Spanish word.' I trust my readers, even non-Spanish ones.

  Junot Diaz

  Book, Writing, People

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• The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

  Charles Dickens

  Friendship, Relationship, Goodbye

  Charles Dickens (1842). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.22

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• There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

  Charles Dickens

  Art, Two, Style

  Nicholas Nickleby ch. 10 (1839)

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• My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.

  Phyllis Diller

  Inspirational, Mother, Law

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• The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area.

  Karen Duffy

  Brain, Body, Arms

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don't they realize that it's gross? I understand it's an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends do it.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Addiction, Smoking, Actresses

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• The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.

  Umberto Eco

  Writing, Sadness, Building Up

  "Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism". Book by Umberto Eco, 2007.

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• Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

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• We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

  George Eliot

  Jesus, Prayer, Miracle

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• Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

  George Eliot

  Life, Death, Kings

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.401

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• Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

  George Eliot

  People, Literature, Duty

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.592, George Eliot

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• We can alleviate physical pain, but mental pain - grief, despair, depression, dementia - is less accessible to treatment. It's connected to who we are - our personality, our character, our soul, if you like.

  Richard Eyre

  Grief, Character, Personality

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• Researches tested a new form of medical marijuana that treats pain but doesn't get the user high, prompting patients who need medical marijuana to declare, 'Thank you?'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Thank You, Marijuana, Needs

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• What I think I've been able to do well over the years is play with pain, play with problems, play in all sorts of conditions.

  Roger Federer

  Thinking, Years, Play

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• Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional WWF wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and that they're going to destroy their opponent. Then they get hit once and fall down and roll around in agony and suddenly seem immobilized by pain, calling for the ref to intervene.

  Paul Feig

  Fall, Agony, Acting

  "Crybabies for Bolton" by Paul Feig, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2005.

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• The biggest way I stay motivated is to run with a group of friends. Sometimes it's hard to get going by yourself, but if you have a plan and a meeting time, you know this run will happen for sure. It's a way to have fun - while also getting in a workout. Plus it distracts from pain, helps you fight fatigue, and gives you that extra push.

  Allyson Felix

  Running, Workout, Fun

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• The basic rhymes in English are masculine, which is to say that the last syllable of the line is stressed: "lane" rhymes with "pain", but it also rhymes with "urbane" since the last syllable of "urbane" is stressed. "Lane" does not rhyme with "methane".

  James Fenton

  Stressed, Doe, Lines

  "Slave to the rhythm" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2002.

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• All they teach you in drama school is how to do stage fights and be a pain in rehearsals.

  Craig Ferguson

  Drama, School, Fighting

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• When you elevate the heels more so than you elevate the sole of the foot, you trigger a cascade of compensations in the knees and hips that cause tight hip flexors, and then those hip flexors cause lower-back pain.

  Tim Ferriss

  Feet, Knees, Causes

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• Pain is temporary, film is forever.

  Michael J. Fox

  Funny, Movie, Forever

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• Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, War, Hands

  Pope Francis (2017). “Embracing the Way of Jesus: Reflections from Pope Francis on Living Our Faith”, p.24, Loyola Press

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• Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

  Sigmund Freud

  Reality, Investing, Pieces

  Sigmund Freud (2014). “Reflections on War and Death”, p.10, The Floating Press

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• Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary.

  Anna Friel

  Mother, Sleep, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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