Quotes with pain

Quotes 221 till 240 of 270.

  • 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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  • Adrienne Rich They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Malcolm Muggeridge This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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  • Shaquille O'Neal This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.
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  • Alcaeus of Mytilene To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
    Alcaeus of Mytilene
    Ancient Greek poet
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  • George Bernard Shaw To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Sir Richard Steele To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Alan Cohen Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Albert Einstein We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Alain de Botton We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.
    How Proust Can Change Your Life
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski We know enough to stand here in truth - facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the victims' families who are here today. Before the judgment of our own conscience.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Jim Rohn We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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