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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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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.
Khalil Gibran

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Bob Marley

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
Oscar Wilde

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

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

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
Friedrich Nietzsche

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
John Lennon

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Khalil Gibran

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



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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