Quotes with pain-threshold

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  • Anais Nin The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Marina Warner The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
    Signs & wonders (2003)
    Marina Warner
    British writer and feminist (1946 - )
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  • José Saramago The worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it, They say that time heals all wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory.
    José Saramago
    Portugese writer (1922 - 2010)
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  • Samuel Johnson There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • James Baldwin There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Leo Buscaglia There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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  • C. L. R. James There can be raw pain and bleeding where so many thousands see the inevitable ups and downs of only a game.
    Beyond a Boundary (1963)
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Bill Bradley There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.
    Bill Bradley
    American former professional basketball player and politician (1943 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is no beautifier of complexion or form of behavior like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Bob Barr There is no legitimate use whatsoever for marijuana. This is not medicine. This is bogus witchcraft. It has no place in medicine, no place in pain relief...
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Marquis de Sade There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Cyril Connolly There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Aeschylus There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Elisabeth Kübler-Ross There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts. The belief has long died that suffering here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. Suffering has lost its meaning.
    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    Swiss-American psychiatrist (1926 - 2004)
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  • Milan Kundera There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Oscar Wilde There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathize with the color, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bob Hayes There's a lot of pain in my heart because what I accomplished was second to none. I'm not losing any sleep, but I do pay attention every year at this time.
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  • Bayard Taylor There's a pang in all rejoicing, And a joy in the heart of pain; And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Benjamin Tucker Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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