PAIN QUOTES V

quotations about pain


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

JACK LONDON
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The Star Rover


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Tags: Jack London


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


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

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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


Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.

J. M. COETZEE

Waiting for the Barbarians

Tags: J. M. Coetzee


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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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


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

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

A Defence of Poetry

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

JOSEPH PRIESTLEY

attributed, Day's Collacon


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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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

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Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled, but halved.

NEIL GAIMAIN

Anansi Boys

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

ALPHONSE DAUDET

La doulou


You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

J. K. ROWLING

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Tags: J. K. Rowling


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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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

Tags: George Eliot


Pain was exhausting in its inane imperviousness to everything. There was nothing, no persuasion or bribe you could bring to it. It was a monolithic idiot, the dumbest thing in the universe given complete control over the smartest, a heartbreaking inversion.

GLEN DUNCAN

Talulla Rising

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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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Pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.

GEORGE ELIOT

Middlemarch

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