Quotes with pain

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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself.
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  • Edith Wharton I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis I write books to relieve ­myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Derek Jarman I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.
    Derek Jarman
    British movie maker, artist, writer (1942 - 1994)
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  • Bobby McFerrin If I can bring joy into the world, if I can get people to stop thinking about their pain for a moment, or the fact the tomorrow morning they're going to get up and tell their boss off... then I'll be successful.
    Bobby McFerrin
    American jazz vocalist (1950 - )
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  • Bobby McFerrin If I can delay that [pain] for a moment and bring a little joy... and help them to see things a little differently, then I'll be successful.
    Bobby McFerrin
    American jazz vocalist (1950 - )
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  • George Santayana If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Samuel Johnson If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Carl Karcher If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
    Carl Karcher
    American businessman (1917 - 2008)
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  • Marcus Aurelius If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Marcel Proust Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge we make promise only; pain we obey.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Sigmund Freud Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Ben Horowitz In boxing, you get hit, it's painful, then you sit on the stool when the adrenaline is gone and you feel that pain. And then you fight the next round.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Erica Jong In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn to poetry when someone they love dies, when they fall in love.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Theresa May In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain.
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    Theresa May
    British politician (1956 - )
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  • Bobby Schilling Incumbent Congresswoman Bustos has proven during her time in Washington that she doesn't understand or feel the pain of middle class families. We need a true representative fighting for us in Washington, and incumbent Congresswoman Cheri Bustos has refused to act.
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • George Bernard Shaw 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.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • John Henry Newman It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • John Henry Newman It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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