Quotes with pain-threshold

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  • Pierre Charron Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
    Pierre Charron
    French philosopher (1541 - 1603)
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  • John Selden Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • Samuel Johnson Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Augustine J. Duganne Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave.
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  • Alan Kay Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
    Alan Kay
    American computer scientist (1940 - )
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  • Barry Hannah Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.
    Barry Hannah
    American novelist (1942 - 2010)
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  • Dorothy Parker Razors pain you, rivers are damp, acids stain you and drugs cause cramp, guns aren't lawful, nooses give, gas smells awful, - you might as well live.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Dorothy Parker Razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you; and drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well live.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Caleb Deschanel Reality in movies is the reality of the story you're telling, so it may not match the reality as we know it, but the reason there's art is that it tries to bring some kind of understanding of all the suffering and joys and pain that we go through. Storytelling brings some value to it.
    Caleb Deschanel
    American cinematographer and director (1944 - )
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  • Seneca Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Theodore Parker Remorse is the pain of sin.
    Theodore Parker
    American minister (1810 - 1860)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.
    Contributions to Analytical Psychology (1928)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Bram Stoker Seven years ago we all went through the flames. And the happiness of some of us since then is, we think, well worth the pain we endured.
    Dracula (1897) Jonathan Harker
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Allen Klein Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Some of your grief you have cured, and lived to survive; but what torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Betty Friedan Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework - an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Heinrich Suso Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.
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  • Samuel Johnson Suspicion is most often useless pain.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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