PAIN QUOTES IV

quotations about pain

We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

My Days

Tags: Eleanor Roosevelt


The lessons we learn from pain are the ones that make us the strongest.

LIONEL LUTHOR

"Hidden", Smallville, 2005


Pain for the old was no longer a surprise.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

All the Pretty Horses

Tags: Cormac McCarthy


Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

JOSÉ ORTEGA Y GASSET

attributed, Building a Life of Value

Tags: José Ortega y Gasset


Pain is only what you allow it to be.

CASSANDRA CLARE

City of Ashes

Tags: Cassandra Clare


Pain addeth zest unto pleasure, and teachest the luxury of health.

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

attributed, Day's Collacon

Tags: Martin Farquhar Tupper


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

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Tender is the Night

Tags: F. Scott Fitzgerald


It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.

CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI

Inheritance

Tags: Christopher Paolini


Just give me a pain that I'm used to.

DEPECHE MODE

"A Paint That I'm Used To"

Tags: Depeche Mode


If thou take pain in what is good, the pains vanish, the good remains; if thou take pleasure in what is evil, the evil remains, and the pleasure vanishes. What art thou the worse for pains, or the better for pleasure when both are past?

FRANCIS QUARLES

Enchiridion

Tags: Francis Quarles


A person who feels pleasure in producing pain in someone else in a sexual relationship is also capable of enjoying as pleasure any pain which he may himself derive from sexual relations. A sadist is always at the same time a masochist.

SIGMUND FREUD

Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality

Tags: Sigmund Freud


There is room in the halls of pleasure
For a large and lordly train,
But one by one we must all file on
Through the narrow isles of pain.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"Solitude"

Tags: Ella Wheeler Wilcox


Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are more boring to listen to or read about.

DAN SIMMONS

The Rise of Endymion

Tags: Dan Simmons


It is pain that changes our lives.

STEVE MARTIN

Shopgirl

Tags: Steve Martin


Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

NEIL GAIMAN

The Graveyard Book

Tags: Neil Gaiman


There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

R. D. LAING

attributed, The Quotable Quote Book

Tags: R. D. Laing


When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

JANE AUSTEN

Persuasion

Tags: Jane Austen


In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other.

GRAHAM GREENE

The End of the Affair

Tags: Graham Greene


Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.

J. M. COETZEE

Waiting for the Barbarians

Tags: J. M. Coetzee


There is such a thing as anesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne.

JACK LONDON

The Star Rover

Tags: Jack London