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Pain Quotes
"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."
Pain,
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"If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?"
39
"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."
Pain,
38
"I'll never know why it was important to him that the couple (he said it later that he'd never seen them before) would take a picture of the whole Mr. Johnson back to Little Rock.He must have been tired of being crippled, as prisoners tire of penitentiary bars and the guilty tire of blame. The high topped shoes and the cane, his uncontrollable muscles and thick tongue, and the looks he suffered of either contempt or pity had simply worn him out, and for one afternoon, one part of an afternoon, he wanted no part of them.I understood and felt closer to him at that moment than ever before or since."
38
"And afterward, after it was done, it was too much, and I felt like I was going to... I don't know.... explode, and it was just too much, I had to let it out you know? I had to-I interrupted her hysteria It's okay, I understand.That was a lie. I didn't get her cutting at all. She'd done it sporadically, ever since the accident and it scared me each time. She'd try to explain it to me, how she didn't want to die - she just needed to get it out somehow. She felt so much emotionally, she would say, that a physical outlet - physical pain - was the only way to make her internal pain go away. It was the only way she could control it."
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"Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain."
33
"Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again."
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"Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign."
Pain,
32
"It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you."
31
"Accepting our pain is a way to say we treasure the sacred gift of life - run to your pain."
30
"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."
Pain,
30
"Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent."
30
"Make me howl, make me scream,Things are never what they seem.Lay me out, end the pain,Now I'll never be the same.Deep inside, there I cry,Yet you still just pass me by.Can't you see, this is me,And I'm Howling! I'm Howling! I'm Howling!"
29
"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."
Pain,
29
"If you are anguished with your failures, you despise and accuse those very adversities and held them responsible for your debacle."
29
"Her brain was acutely damaged in the accident. When the doctor was coming out of the ICU, he feared.He made an evil prayer.'I am fine to live with her memories, I will settle myself with the verythought that she isn't anymore, happily and gently.But dear God, don't make her lose her conscious, like a dead yet, living body. Coldness in the eyes, which I have seen filled with love and surprisewill kill me every day.I don't want to die a new death every minute.Take her away, Or give her back in whole."
28
"A person must face the root cause of their relentless personal pain. Irrespective of whatever bricks buttress our youthful personal philosophy, pain avoidance, and pain therapy are likely two of its foundation stones."
27
"I could feel my insides sink. My knees too. So I sat on the ground, against the wall, letting it support me. I thought I knew what heartbreak felt like. I thought heartbreak was me, standing alone at the prom. That was nothing. This, this was heartbreak. The pain in your chest, the ache behind your eyes. The knowing that things will never be the same again. It's all relative, I suppose. You think you know love, you think you know real pain, but you don't. You don't know anything."
25
"As anyone who has been close to someone that has committed suicide knows, there is no other pain like that felt after the incident."
25
"Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self."
24
"Shot through the heart, and you're to blame! you give love, a bad name."
24
"The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators."
23
"The shuddering would not stop. The pain was like the end of the world. He thought: There comes a point when the very discussion of pain becomes redundant. No one knows there is pain the size of this in the world. No one. It is like being possessed by demons."
23
"And pity - people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you - that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people."
23
"The dreams that surfaced upon meeting up with him again winked out of existence, stars darkening for good."
22
"The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain."
22
"For grief has always been so dear to you that you would make me writhing in pain in the brothel of your imaginations than to be playing with a bunch of balloons in the yard where I should have been.'And may be that's why, you'd rather talk to me about this, than to write a story about me where I could live happily."
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