Pain Quotes - Page 9

• Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Growth, Criticism

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• Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

  Aldous Huxley

  Laughter, Emotional, Misery

  Aldous Huxley (2015). “Crome Yellow”, p.86, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Atheist

  "God" (song) (1970)

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• All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Death, Education, Knowledge

  Maurice Maeterlinck (1913). “Our Eternity”

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• The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

  Henry Miller

  Change, Men, Order

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.339, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Marriage, Humor

  Rita Rudner (2008). “I Still Have It . . . I Just Can't Remember Where I Put It: Confessions of a Fiftysomething”, p.86, Crown Archetype

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• If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Hope, Choices

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 19, 2016

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• The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Hurt, Motivation

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Feb 22, 2014

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• Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Choices, Sometimes, Tender Is The Night

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Hurt, Men, Bless

  "The Root of the Righteous". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, 1955.

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• One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing.

  Anne Rice

  Song, Painful, Wanted

  Anne Rice (2011). “New Tales of the Vampires: includes Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire”, p.26, Ballantine Books

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• It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.

  Veronica Roth

  Hurt, Broken, People

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• The marks humans leave are too often scars.

  John Green

  Real, Green, Scar

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.176, Penguin

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• But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.

  John Milton

  Patience, Evil, Perfect

  1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.6, l.461-3.

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• Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

  Henri Nouwen

  Friendship, True Friend, Grief

  Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books

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• The pain that's created by avoiding hard work is actually much worse than any pain created from the actual work itself. Because if you don't begin to work on those ideas that God has blessed you with, they will become stagnant inside of you and eventually begin to eat away at you. You might seem OK on the outside, but inside you will be ill from not getting those ideas out of your heart and into the world. Stalling leads to sickness. But taking steps, even baby steps, always leads to success.

  Russell Simmons

  Inspirational, Baby, Blessed

  Russell Simmons, Chris Morrow (2007). “Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success”, p.96, Penguin

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• There is a pleasure that is born of pain.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Pleasure, Born, Pain And Pleasure

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• Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

  Markus Zusak

  Sad, Thinking, Twenties

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.211, RH Childrens Books

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  The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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• Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.

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  Ram Dass

  Life, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Use, World

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1866). “Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poetical works”, p.222

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• If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Positive, Depression

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• The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Fear, Science

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Knowledge is pain that's why it hurts to know.

  Drake

  Hurt, It Hurts, Knows

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