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Pain Quotes

This is another small page with no flagged entries. Suman Pokhrel, Shakespeare, Cesare Pavese, Sarah Williams and Sanu Sharma lead. The sourced lines vary a great deal. Shelley’s Julian and Maddalo (1819) says those who inflict must suffer, for they see the work of their own hearts. Edward Young’s Night-Thoughts (1742) has the neat paradox that a man of pleasure is a man of pains. Cesar Chavez’s Plan of Delano (1965) is a statement from a farm workers’ march, not a reflection: our sweat and our blood have fallen on this land to make other men rich.

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Now there's no point in placing the blame
And you should know I'd suffer the same

Patrick Leonard

Shared pain is lessened; shared joy is increased; thus do we refute entropy.

Spider Robinson

I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.

Margaret Atwood Alias Grace (1996)

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

William Penn No Cross, No Crown (1682)

The hope of all who suffer,
The dread of all who wrong.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise. They are hurt less by undeserved censure than by undeserved commendation. Abuse helps; often praise hurts.

Rutherford B. Hayes Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922)

Disillusionment, pain, unpleasant surprise, all were part of growing up.

Sheri S. Tepper Marianne, the Madame, and the Momentary Gods (1988)

By anybody’s standards, there is a huge amount of unnecessary and undeserved suffering that is just bad and that we should get rid of.

Nick Bostrom The End of Suffering (2006)

And poets by their sufferings grow;
As if there were no more to do,
To make a poet excellent,
But only want and discontent.

Samuel Butler

If it hurts too much, make it hurt someone else instead.

Robert Jordan Lord of Chaos (1994)

There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or through pleasure and pain.

Ptolemy

Does Djilas, who is himself a writer, not know what human suffering and the human heart are? Can't he understand it if a soldier who has crossed thousands of kilometers through blood and fire and death has fun with a wench or takes some trifle?

Joseph Stalin

Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.

Robert Jordan Crossroads of Twilight (2003)

Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.

René Daumal A Night of Serious Drinking (1938)

Every discord is a harmony not understood. Happiness is a disease, and pain, a medicine.

Swami Narayanananda

This was the home of the great god Pain, and for the first time I looked through a devilish chink into the depths of his realm. And fresh shells came down all the time.

Ernst Jünger Storm of Steel (1920)

A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

G. I. Gurdjieff In Search of the Miraculous (1949)

One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

The strain of suffering causes the mind to decay.

Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot Posthumous Manuscripts (1878)

We are created for precisely this sort of suffering. In the end, it is all we are, those limpid tide pools of self-consciousness between crashing waves of pain.

Dan Simmons The Fall of Hyperion (1990)

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