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After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

Emily Dickinson

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All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.

Joseph de Maistre

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All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

Cicero

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And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be nor more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain. -- Revelation

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Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute.

Mark Twain

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6

Everything hurts.

Michelangelo

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Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

Simone Weil

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He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

Samuel Johnson

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If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.

George Santayana

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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

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11

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Cesare Pavese

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No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

William Penn

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13

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

J. K. Rowling

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14

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

Virginia Woolf

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15

One pain is lessened by another's anguish.

William Shakespeare

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16

Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

Havelock Ellis

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17

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

Laurence Sterne

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18

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

Samuel Johnson

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19

Pain is life -- the sharper, the more evidence of life.

Charles Lamb

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20

Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment.

Will Rogers

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Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.

Publilius Syrus

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22

Pain pays the income of each precious thing.

William Shakespeare

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Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are.

John Dryden

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Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!

Seneca the Younger

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25

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

John Selden

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Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain.

Samuel Johnson

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27

Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.

Seneca the Younger

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28

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

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29

Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson

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30

That which is escaped now is pain to come.

Pain
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The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.

Thomas Jefferson

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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron

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The greatest evil is physical pain.

Augustine of Hippo

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34

The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

Cicero

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35

The injuries we do and the injuries we suffer are seldom weighed on the same scales.

Aesop

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36

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

Henry Ward Beecher

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37

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

Karl Marx

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38

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.

Publilius Syrus

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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

C. S. Lewis

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40

The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

William Hazlitt

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41

There are no gains without pains.

Benjamin Franklin

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42

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer --committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.

George Eliot

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There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Carl Jung

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There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

Simone Weil

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45

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Marquis de Sade

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46

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

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47

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

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48

To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.

Terence

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49

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Jim Rohn

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50

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

Aeschylus

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51

Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing.

Tony Robbins

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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Khalil Gibran

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After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be nor more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain. -- Revelation

Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute.

Everything hurts.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

One pain is lessened by another's anguish.

Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

Pain is life -- the sharper, the more evidence of life.

Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment.

Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.

Pain pays the income of each precious thing.

Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are.

Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain.

Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.

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.

Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

That which is escaped now is pain to come.

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

The greatest evil is physical pain.

The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

The injuries we do and the injuries we suffer are seldom weighed on the same scales.

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

There are no gains without pains.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

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...?

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.

To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.