Quotes 81 till 100 of 287.
-
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.
-
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
-
It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
-
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
-
It is not insult from another that causes you pain. It is the part of your mind that agrees with the insult. Agree only with the truth about you, and you are free.
-
It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.
Original:Il nest pas honteux pour lhomme de succomber sous la douleur et il est honteux de succomber sous le plaisir.
Pensees (1669) -
It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization? -
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.
-
It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
-
It sounds strange to say it, but you can be in a war zone and have a lot of fun. Even though war is essentially pain on all sides, human beings have the capacity to enjoy themselves. The soldiers are mostly young people, full of enthusiasm and energy, and that's an exciting thing for an old guy like me.
-
It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.
-
It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.
-
Just as those who do not love Plato more than truth cannot pass beyond the threshold of Academe, so those who do not love beauty more than truth never know the inmost shrine of art.
The Decay of Lying (1889) -
Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
-
Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.
-
Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
-
Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.
-
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
All pain-threshold famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 5)
