Quotes with pain

  • Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
  • Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
  • Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.
  • 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.
  • My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
  • All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
  • One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
  • Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
  • There can be raw pain and bleeding where so many thousands see the inevitable ups and downs of only a game.
  • 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.
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  • Aeschylus And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • John Patrick Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
    The Teahouse of the August Moon act I, scene i, p. 6
    John Patrick
    English playwright and screenwriter (1905 - 1995)
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  • Winston Churchill Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Simone Weil Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Samuel Johnson Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Albert Einstein If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Rose Kennedy It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.
    Rose Kennedy
    American philanthropist and mother of John F. Kennedy (1890 - 1995)
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  • Julius Caesar It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
    Julius Caesar
    Roman emperor (101 - 44)
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  • Pat Barker It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain.
    Pat Barker
    British writer (1943 - )
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  • Eugène Ionesco No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
    Eugène Ionesco
    Romanian - French writer (1909 - 1994)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo The greatest evil is physical pain.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Betty Wright 'Pain' is more indicative of what I like to do. I'm lyric-conscious. I like to tell stories, give advice. Instead of writing a 'Dear Abby' column, I do it on records.
    Betty Wright
    American singer (1953 - 2020)
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  • Bell Hooks ...there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and pain of constant exploitation and oppression.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Bill Hybels A lot of spiritual gains come through pain, hurt, struggle, confusion and disappointment.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Abraham Cowley A mighty pain to love it is,
    And 't is a pain that pain to miss;
    But of all pains, the greatest pain
    It is to love, but love in vain.
    From Anacreon, vii. Gold; reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Ayn Rand Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Emily Dickinson After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis All of my books come from pain.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Joseph De Maistre All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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