Pain Quotes - Page 4

• It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  New Beginnings, Pleasure, Refinement

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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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• We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Disappointment, Regret

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 13, 2015

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• When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

  Henri Nouwen

  Love, Friendship, Powerful

  "Kindness Can Open Hearts and Unexpected Opportunities" by Kare Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2015.

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• I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, Feelings, Injury

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• Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Meaningful, Views

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.26, Penguin

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• Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

  Randall Jarrell

  Hurt, Darkness

  Randall Jarrell, Mary Jarrell (1985). “Randall Jarrell's letters: an autobiographical and literary selection”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

  George Eliot

  Hope, Live Life, Despair

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2488, Delphi Classics

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• Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,- Sweet is pleasure after pain.

  John Dryden

  Sweet, Treasure, Rich

  'Alexander's Feast' (1697) l. 57

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• A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Family, Forgiveness, Wise

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.278

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• That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.

  John Green

  Inspirational, Stars, Powerful

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, January 10, 2012.

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• Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship to formula. Laughter and love, pain and loneliness, the challenge of beauty and truth: these will always surpass the scientific mastery of nature.

  Louis Orr

  Beauty, Laughter, Loneliness

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• Why do we hold onto negativity? For some reason, we believe that others are affected by our experience of remaining upset, hurt or angry. Holding on to pain, anger, guilt or shame is the glue that binds us to the situation we want to escape.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Hurt, Believe, Anger

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Dec 06, 2016

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• Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Happiness, Success, Real

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.3497, Delphi Classics

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• Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

  Angelina Jolie

  Inspirational, Mistake, Keys

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• Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain. Whatever the substance you are addicted to - alcohol, food, legal or illegal drugs, or a person - you are using something or somebody to cover up your pain.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Moving, Addiction, Alcohol

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.152, New World Library

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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 tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

  Norman Cousins

  Life, Men, Feelings

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• Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain: As, painfully to pore upon a book, To seek the light of truth, which truth the while Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Light, Looks

  William Shakespeare, H. R. Woudhuysen (1998). “Love's Labour's Lost: Third Series”, p.117, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!" "You do care," said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

  J. K. Rowling

  Death, Moving, Expression

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• You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves can we understand them in other people.

  James A. Baldwin

  Thinking, People, Empathy

  "Doom and glory of knowing who you are". Jane Howard, Life Magazine, Volume 54, No. 21 (p. 89), May 24, 1963.

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• Laughter is higher than all pain.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Laughter, Higher

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• Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Depression, God, Christian

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