PAIN QUOTES IV

quotations about pain

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

LIONEL LUTHOR

"Hidden", Smallville, 2005


Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

JOSÉ ORTEGA Y GASSET

attributed, Building a Life of Value

Tags: José Ortega y Gasset


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


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

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

Tags: Henry Ward Beecher


Pain is only what you allow it to be.

CASSANDRA CLARE

City of Ashes

Tags: Cassandra Clare


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


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


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


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

BRET HARTE

"The Lost Galleon"

Tags: Bret Harte


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

NEIL GAIMAN

The Graveyard Book

Tags: Neil Gaiman


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


It is pain that changes our lives.

STEVE MARTIN

Shopgirl

Tags: Steve Martin


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


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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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


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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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

Tags: Stefan Zweig


Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.

J. M. COETZEE

Waiting for the Barbarians

Tags: J. M. Coetzee


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"

Tags: Ella Wheeler Wilcox