Pain Quotes - Page 5

• Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.

  John Steinbeck

  Secret, Boxes

  John Steinbeck (1952). “East of Eden”

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• There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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• Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

  Aristotle

  Children, Learning, Play

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• I wish no living thing to suffer pain.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Compassion, Suffering

  1820 Prometheus Unbound, act 1, l.303-5.

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• Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.

  Charles Kingsley

  Reality, Evil, Conquer

  Charles Kingsley (1872). “Poems: Including The Saint's Tragedy, Andromeda, Songs, Ballads, Etc”, p.243

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• The greatest evil is physical pain.

  Saint Augustine

  Evil, Physical Pain

  Soliloquies I.21

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  What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

  Elie Wiesel

  Hurt, Bystanders, Silence

  "Courage To Care - Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust" by Carol Rittner and Sandra Meyers, NYU Press, (p. 2), 1986.

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• Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.

  Charles Lamb

  Life, Evidence

  Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “The letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. The poetical works”, p.234

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• Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

  Eric Mangini

  Inspirational, Strength, Motivational Sports

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• Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.

  George R. R. Martin

  Being Hurt, Old Wounds, Broken

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.50, Bantam

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• Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.

  William C. Bryant

  Agony, Reign, Fierce

  William Cullen Bryant, “Mutation”

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• Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

  Paul Tillich

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Lonely

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• Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

  Lance Armstrong

  Motivational, Leadership, Sports

  Lance Armstrong (2010). “Every Second Counts”, p.4, Random House

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• When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Action, Finest

  Salman Rushdie (2010). “Midnight's Children”, p.497, Random House

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• The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.

  Nido R Qubein

  Inspirational, Regret, Positivity

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• Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

  Alexander Pope

  Virtue, Endeavour, Decency

  'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To a Lady' (1735) l. 163

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• All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Love, Punishment, Justice

  Joseph de Maistre (1993). “St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence”, p.149, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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• Much of your pain is self-chosen.

  Khalil Gibran

  Adversity, Self, Trials

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.84, Lulu.com

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• Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain.

  William Shakespeare

  Delight, Vain

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Peines d’amour perdues”, p.38, Editions Gallimard

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• The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Letter to Maria Cosway, 12 October (1786)

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• If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "If I can stop one heart from breaking" l. 1 (ca. 1865)

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• There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer --committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.

  George Eliot

  Peace, Morning, Writing

  "Felix Holt, the Radical". Book by George Eliot. Introductory chapter, 1866.

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• Pain is no longer pain when it is past.

  Margaret Junkin Preston

  Past

  Margaret Junkin Preston (1870). “Old Song and New”, p.260

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• Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

  George William Russell

  Lying, Thinking, Suffering

  George William Russell (1935). “Selected poems”

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  I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Positive, Marriage

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