Quotes with pain

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  • Benjamin Britten 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.
    Benjamin Britten
    English composer, conductor, and pianist (1913 - 1976)
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  • Alan Cohen 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.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal 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)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Joseph Conrad 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.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Lord George Byron It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bruce Cockburn 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.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Bono 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.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • John Bradshaw 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.
    John Bradshaw
    American educator, counselor, motivational speaker, and author (1933 - 2016)
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  • Paul Tillich Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
    Paul Tillich
    German-American theologian and philosopher (1886 - 1965)
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  • Tim O'Brien Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.
    Tim O'Brien
    American novelist (1946 - )
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  • Elbert Hubbard Laughter is higher than all pain.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Charlie Chaplin Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
    Charlie Chaplin
    British actor, movie maker (1889 - 1977)
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  • Max Depree Leaders don't inflict pain - they share pain.
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  • T. S. Eliot Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Cesare Pavese Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Barry Cornwall Love can take what shape he pleases; and when once begun his fiery inroad in the soul, how vain the after knowledge which his presence gives! We weep or rave; but still he lives, and lives master and lord, amidst pride and tears and pain.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Ben Harper Make no mistake about it, making a good record is pure, unadulterated pain. If you fall and break your leg--that's pain. But I'm telling you, the phase between pain and death? That's making a good record. It's extreme.
    Roots Radical, Guitar Player (December 1, 1999)
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Much of the pain and pleasure of mankind arises from the conjectures which every one makes of the thoughts of others; we all enjoy praise which we do not hear, and resent contempt which we do not see.
    Idler
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Anthony Robbins 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.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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