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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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I want to believe that it is sometimes our greatest and most difficult pain that leads us to our lives' purpose.

Paula McLain

The dusk is heavy with the wine's warm load;
Here the long sense of classic measure cures
The spirit weary of its difficult pain;
Here the old Bacchic piety endures,
Here the sweet legends of the world remain.

Vita Sackville-West

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. This is the mystery. This is what I must do.

Katherine Mansfield

I think onstage it was more me trying to show people my pain, and offstage it was just feeling it, period.

Marilyn Manson

It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful.

Anton LaVey The Nine Satanic Sins (1987)

Pain doesn't listen to reason, it has its own reason, which is not reasonable.

Milan Kundera Identity (1998)

Suffering belongs to no language.

Adélia Prado

When you’re in the midst, it feels like it will never end. But you keep going and moving forward—and suddenly you’re looking back on the pain rather than living it.

John McCain

You're the pain in my —
The hurricane in my —
Supersensitive heart, dear.
Still I love you, I know,
And the reason is merely because
You irritate me so!

Cole Porter Let's Face It (1941)

"Fare well!"
"A whole world of pain is contained in these words." How can it be contained in them? — It is bound up in them. The words are like an acorn from which an oak tree can grow.

Ludwig Wittgenstein Culture and Value (1980)

If it weren't for the suffering of others to make us laugh, we would never laugh.

Antonio Delfini

Pain's nothing. Pain's what you give, not what you get.

Colum McCann Let the Great World Spin (2009)

A person who feels pleasure in producing pain in someone else in a sexual relationship is also capable of enjoying as pleasure any pain which he may himself derive from sexual relations. A sadist is always at the same time a masochist.

Sigmund Freud Three Essays On The Theory Of Sexuality (1905)

Crude thoughts and fierce forces are my state. I do not know who I am. Nor what I was. I cannot hear a sound. Pain is near that will be like no pain felt before.

Norman Mailer Ancient Evenings (1983)

Pain's not bad. It's good. It teaches you things. Like when you put your hand in fire: Ow! You know not to do that again.

Charles Manson Charles Manson's first prison interview by 60 Minutes Australia (1981)

If we only have love
We can reach those in pain
We can heal all our wounds
We can use our own names.

Jacques Brel If Only We Have Love (1957)

If we only have love
We can reach those in pain
We can heal all our wounds
We can use our own names.

Rod McKuen If We Only Have Love (1968)

Going through the pain barrier, that's what makes the muscles grow. There's this pain, this aching, and going on and on and on. That's what divides a champion from a non-champion - having the guts to go through the pain barrier.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club (1989)

Learning's always a painful process.

Luc Besson Lucy (2014)

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