PAIN QUOTES V

quotations about pain

Never a lip is curved with pain
That can't be kissed into smiles again.

BRET HARTE

"The Lost Galleon"

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When we are suddenly released from an acute absorbing bodily pain, our heart and senses leap out in new freedom; we think even the noise of streets harmonious, and are ready to hug the tradesman who is wrapping up our change.

GEORGE ELIOT

Janet's Repentance

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Pain is a coward. He flees when faced by the irresistible power of the will-to-live, which is more strongly rooted in the flesh than the intensest passion is rooted in the spirit.

STEFAN ZWEIG

Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman

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Pain sends out long tentacles
And sucks.
When I have given up struggling
He takes me into his arms.

EVELYN SCOTT

"Hectic"

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If I call it pain, and try to touch it
With my hands, my own life,
It lies still and the music thins,
A pulse felt for through garments.

TRACY K. SMITH

"Duende"

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Pain is the deepest thing we have in our nature, and union through pain has always seemed more real and holy than any other.

ARTHUR HENRY HALLAM

Remains in Verse and Prose


Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters--pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do; on the one hand the standard of right and wrong; on the other, the chain of causes and effects are fastened to their throne.

JEREMY BENTHAM

An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

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Pain is always new to the sufferer, but loses its originality for those around him.

ALPHONSE DAUDET

La doulou


Don't forget that in the midst of all your pain and heartache, you are surrounded by beauty, the wonder of creation, art, your music and culture, the sounds of laughter and love, of whispered hopes and celebrations, of new life and transformation, of reconciliation and forgiveness.

WM. PAUL YOUNG

The Shack

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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

Meditations

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Merely to live without a pain
Is little gladness, little gain,
Ah, welcome joy tho' mixt with grief--
The thorn-set flower that crowns the leaf.

HENRY VAN DYKE

"Thorn and Rose"

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The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently, endure as much pain when their body is hurt; but in their case the cruelty of torment is much greater, because they have no mind to bear them up against their sufferings, and no hope to look forward to when enduring the last extreme of pain, their happiness consisting entirely in present enjoyment.

THOMAS CHALMERS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

A Defence of Poetry

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Pain is just another form of information.

DON DELILLO

Underworld

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Physical pain is necessary to the progress of the human race.

JOSEPH PRIESTLEY

attributed, Day's Collacon


Nature has placed in the front part of man, as he moves, all those parts which when struck cause him to feel pain; and this is felt in the joints of the legs, the forehead and the nose, and has been so devised for the preservation of man, because if such pain were not felt in these limbs they would be destroyed by the many blows they receive.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Thoughts on Art and Life

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People come and go, pain comes and goes. But so does joy. And if our hearts are closed because we don't want to suffer, they won't be open enough to recognize the joy as it flies by.

GENEEN ROTH

Good Housekeeping, December 2008

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The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.

DJUNA BARNES

Nightwood


Pain is the best cure for error.

JOHANN HEINRICH DANIEL ZSCHOKKE

"Harmonius", Tales from the German of Heinrich Zschokke


Pain, no matter how prolonged it seems to be, is just a short-lived thing that one day, in one way or another, we will overcome.

ROSEMARY ALTEA

The Eagle and the Rose

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