PAIN QUOTES III

quotations about pain

Pain quote

Pleasure is hard to come by, but pain is everywhere these days, I must learn to subsist on it.

J. M. COETZEE

In the Heart of the Country

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God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

C. S. LEWIS

The Problem of Pain

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The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.

THOMAS JEFFERSON

letter to Mrs. Cosway, October 12, 1786

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There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

FERNANDO PESSOA

The Book of Disquiet

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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

JOHN KEATS

letter to George and Georgiana Keats, April 1819

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Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other; and he only that knows how to accommodate himself to their periodical returns, and can wisely extract the good from the evil, knows how to live.

LAURENCE STERNE

attributed, Day's Collacon


So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.

MATTHEW HENRY

Commentaries

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Often pains too long retained increase even to the breaking of the heart; if they could be exhaled we should see that they do not merit the bitterness which they have caused.

FRANCOIS FENELON

attributed, Day's Collacon


There are cases in which it is necessary to inflict pain now to avoid greater pain later on, or to gain future pleasure that is worth the current pain.

SUSAN HUBBARD

The Society of S

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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

JAMES BALDWIN

The Fire Next Time

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Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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We have a bitter power who laugh at pain,
Who laugh and laugh -- for tears are shed in vain.

ELSA BARKER

"The Garden of Rose and Rue", The Book of Love

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That is true nobility, true elevation of soul, when man can rise superior to any suffering and every pain, by the indwelling power given to him.

JOHANN GEORGE FORSTER

attributed, Day's Collacon


Shake hands with Pain, give greeting unto Grief,
Those angels in disguise, and thy glad soul
From height to height, from star to shining star,
Shall climb and claim blest immortality.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"Immortality"

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But for pain, bodies would be broken to pieces on the slightest shock.

ST. PIERRE

attributed, Day's Collacon


Pain is an outcry of sin.

ROBERT SOUTH

attributed, Day's Collacon


Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.

AESCHYLUS

fragment

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As an enemy is made more fierce by our flight, so pain grows proud to see us truckle under it; she will surrender upon much better terms to those who make head against us.

MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

attributed, Day's Collacon

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In medical nomenclature, pains are said to be of various degrees and kinds. A pain may be slight, or it may be agonizing, with all the intervening grades of moderate, severe, violent, intense, excruciating, etc. Various figurative expressions are also used to designate the several varieties of pain, such as pungent, stinging, cutting, lancinating, tearing, rending, splitting, boring, gnawing, etc. Pains are also said to be heavy, dull or obtuse, sharp or acute, aching, throbbing, smarting, pricking, pulsating, burning, etc.

JOEL SHEW

The Hydropathic Family Physician


He knew that scar, that pain, that shame, that degradation that no metaphor could contain, inscribing it on his body. And yet beyond that, he was that scar, carved by hate and smallness and fear onto the world's face. He and everyone like him, until the earth was aflame with scarred black men dying in trees of fire.

CHRIS ABANI

Graceland

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