Pain Quotes

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!
Joseph Addison

Love, Live, Pleasure

Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.
Lance Armstrong

Hard, Physical, Muscles

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.
Albert Schweitzer

Help, Others, Personal

What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.
Barbara de Angelis

Life, Human, Sense

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.
Margaret Mead

Mind, Different, Follow

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
Edmund Burke

Time, Passion, Person

A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look.
Emma Thompson

Women, Beautiful, Thinking

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
Saint Augustine

Life, Action, Common

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
George Eliot

Life, Music, Death

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
Anthony Hopkins

Life, Love, Happiness

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Sacrifice, Order, Pleasure

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

Great, Feeling, After

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Age, Death, Old

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

Life, Great, Art

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Life, Positive, Freedom

A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
Jack Kerouac

Time, Girl, Heart

Pain is never permanent.
Saint Teresa of Avila

They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Behind, Stay, Parting

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
Henry Miller

Mind, Him, Give

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.
Honore de Balzac

Love, Men, Woman

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.
M. Scott Peck

Desire, Lies, Behavior

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.
Milan Kundera

Someone, Nothing, Compassion

Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.
Tyler Perry

Life, Love, God

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
Frank Leahy

Stupidity, Egotism, Anesthetic

Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
Tom Waits

Real, Friends, Champagne

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
Sophocles

Life, Love, Word

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.
Jim Carrey

Time, Christmas, Alone

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
Samuel Butler

Beauty, Happy, True

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
R. D. Laing

Life, Great, Trying

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
Ingrid Newkirk

Dog, System, Ability

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