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Pain Quotes

"But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things."

Richard Krajicek, Dutch Athlete

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

Khalil Gibran, Lebanese Poet

Pain, Understanding

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"And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing."

Ricardo Montalban, Mexican Actor

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"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever."

Lance Armstrong, American Athlete

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"Pain is a teacher; suffering is a choice."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

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"The pain was considerable, but trivial compared with my mental state."

Harold Lloyd, American Actor

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"I was taught that pain is bad."

Keith Miller, American Author

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"Russia has gone through eight years of continuing economic pain."

Jeffrey Sachs, American Economist

Pain, Russia, Years

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"Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent."

Francis Picabia, French Artist

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"Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to... Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain."

Whitey Ford, American Athlete

"All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain."

John Stuart Mill, English Philosopher

Pain, Pleasure, Prevention, Promotion

"Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain."

Malcolm Lowry, English Poet

"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever."

Lance Armstrong, American Athlete

Pain, Day, May, Will

"Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations."

Ernst Mach, Austrian Physicist

Pain, Pleasure, Sensations

"Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by."

Ovid, Roman Poet

"I paint because it hurts not to. Pain is in the word painting."

Marta Gottfried, American Author

Pain, Painting, Word

"Pain's not bad, it's good. It teaches you things. I understand that."

Charles Manson, American Criminal

"I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water."

Amy Tan, American Novelist

Pain, Water, Years

"Bruce Willis. Pain in my ass, no problem about that. We just didn't get along. We got along off camera, but shooting we just didn't get along."

Antoine Fuqua, American Director

"Whenever you hurt someone, you bring torment into your own life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Pain, Hurt, Torment, Life

"Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away."

Derek Jarman, British Director

"No one can hurt you without teaching a life's lesson. So accept it with love and kindness."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Pain, Lesson, Love, Acceptance

"Ali had a break that was an inch and a half long, and you keep getting hit as hard and as much as I hit Ali, the pain would take over and you would pass out."

Ken Norton, American Athlete

"For a sensation to be felt as pain is for it to be pain."

Saul Kripke, American Philosopher

"I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction."

Mariel Hemingway, American Actress

"A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it."

Michelangelo, Italian Artist

"Pain is a gift. Instead of avoiding it, learn to embrace it and grow from it."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

"Pain forces even the innocent to lie."

Publilius Syrus, Roman Writer

"Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain."

Benjamin Tucker, American Activist

"He preacheth patience that never knew pain."

H. G. Bohn, British Publisher

"He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse."

Robinson Jeffers, American Poet

"As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain."

Dan O'Brien, American Athlete

"The limit of every pain is an even greater pain."

Emile M. Cioran, Romanian Philosopher

"It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you."

Roger Zelazny, American Writer

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

Khalil Gibran, Lebanese Poet

"The wages of pedantry is pain."

Carroll O'Connor, American Actor

"We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow."

James Taylor, American Musician

"It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure."

Marquis de Sade, French Novelist

"Our stories are different; our pain is the same."

Betty Buckley, American Actress

"I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it."

Arthur Golden, American Writer

"Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions."

Pierre Charron, French Philosopher

"So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar."

Matthew Henry, English Clergyman

"The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators."

Thomas Macaulay, English Poet

"If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

"As anyone who has been close to someone that has committed suicide knows, there is no other pain like that felt after the incident."

Peter Greene, American Actor

"The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

"Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

Pain, Pleasure, Shadow, Tragedy

"Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal."

Polly Toynbee, English Journalist

"My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain."

Dick York, American Actor

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