Pain Quotes - page 4

I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes. (Charlotte Brontë)
There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him. View quote
Umberto Eco
Joy always came after pain. View quote
Guillaume Apollinaire
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. View quote
Haruki Murakami
There is, though, nothing that prepares us for the worst things in our life. There is nothing you can do to stop the shock, or buffer the pain. View quote
James Frey
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself. View quote
Norman Cousins
A feeling of sadness and longing That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent. View quote
Francis Picabia
Pain or love or danger makes you real again... View quote
Jack Kerouac
Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. View quote
Bruce Lee
Desire is the memory of pleasure and fear is the memory of pain. Both make the mind restless. (...) (Nisargadatta Maharaj)
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. View quote
Samuel Johnson
To act, you must know pain. You must know what it means to be in love, what it means to be rejected. View quote
Preity Zinta
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. View quote
Cesare Pavese
Suicide is a serious thing. And if you know anyone who is suicidal, you need to get them help. No one should be in pain. Everyone should love themselves. View quote
Gerard Way
Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee! View quote
Joseph Addison
No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory no cross, no crown. View quote
William Penn
Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. (John Dryden)
Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others. View quote
Morarji Desai
The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it. View quote
Laurence Sterne
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain? View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
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