PAIN QUOTES

quotations about pain

Pain quote

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

Diary

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That's the thing about pain.... It demands to be felt.

JOHN GREEN

The Fault in Our Stars

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Pain is a part of growing up. It's how we learn.

DAN BROWN

Angels & Demons

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The power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

ORSON SCOTT CARD

Ender's Game

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Pain is rewarding, in every capacity.

CHRISTINA AGUILERA

Rolling Stone, August 24, 2006

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I hate all pain,
Given or received; we have enough within us
The meanest vassal as the loftiest monarch,
Not to add to each other's natural burden
Of mortal misery.

LORD BYRON

Sardanapalus

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A little bit of pain is good for you. I feel alive. Everybody needs struggle. Once you overcome an obstacle, you springboard into the future. Life is interesting and short and it's not supposed to be easy, and if it is, you're probably just in denial and you're existing here like a zombie.

PAMELA ANDERSON

interview

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Pain revealed the paltry dimensions of love. The paltry dimensions of everything, in fact, except pain.

GLEN DUNCAN

A Day and a Night and a Day

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Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly ... and if left unresolved for very long, you can almost forget that you were ever created to fly in the first place.

WM. PAUL YOUNG

The Shack

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Mortal! that cull'st the flowers of life,
Think not to escape the thorn.

WILLIAM B. TAPPAN

"The Thorn of Life"

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No pain, no gain.

JANE FONDA

Jane Fonda's Workout


Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain.

HORACE MANN

A Few Thoughts for a Young Man

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Pain ... after you've lived with it long enough, isn't pain anymore. It's something else.

SAMUEL R. DELANY

Nova

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Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows.

DEAN KOONTZ

Velocity

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We wince under little pains, but nature in us, through the excitement attendant upon them, braces us to endure with fortitude greater agonies.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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Wounds make better lessons than lectures.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON

Dune: House Harkonnen

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Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.

ECKHART TOLLE

The Power of Now

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There are no shortcuts ... in life or in love. This pain must be felt. The alternative is much worse. It's what makes us special, what makes us beautiful, what... what makes us worthy; the pain of how we love. But that pain is accompanied by something else, isn't it? Hope. With your pain, there is hope. And that is where you are. Somewhere between agony and optimism and prayer. So you're human. You're alive. And that is what we have.

DR. JUDE BAR-SHALOM

"Love Is Difficult", Brothers & Sisters, 2007


Some moments in a life, and they needn't be very long or seem very important, can make up for so much in that life; can redeem, justify, that pain, that bewilderment, with which one lives, and invest one with the courage not only to endure it, but to profit from it; some moments teach one the price of the human connection: if one can live with one's own pain, then one respects the pain of others, and so, briefly, but transcendentally, we can release each other from pain.

JAMES BALDWIN

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

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It's much easier to wear your pain on the outside.

E. L. JAMES

Fifty Shades of Freed

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