Definition of Pain

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Definition of Pain

Pain

Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.

Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart.

Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.

Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish.

See Pains, labor, effort.

To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

To put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture; as, his dinner or his wound pained him; his stomach pained him.

To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents.

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Pain Quotations

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
Buddha

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
Thomas Jefferson

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou

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.
Tony Robbins

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
Tony Robbins

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
Tony Robbins

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Winston Churchill

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Kahlil Gibran

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

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Kahlil Gibran

Pain Translations

pain in Afrikaans is pyn
pain in Danish is smerte
pain in Dutch is wee, zeer, pijn
pain in French is mal, diuleur, douleur
pain in German is Schmerz, Schmerz, Pein, Qual
pain in Italian is pena, penoso
pain in Latin is poena, dolor, morsus, dolor
pain in Norwegian is pine, smerte
pain in Portuguese is dor
pain in Spanish is dolor

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