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Pain Quotes
"Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent."
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"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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"We are all made complete by our pain."
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"Accepting our pain is a way to say we treasure the sacred gift of life - run to your pain."
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"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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"Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self."
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"Sometimes the pain is a startling breach that hobbles your entire soul, dreadful losses that rupture your perceived reality. Pain so visceral and unrelenting that even death itself can begin to look like a welcomed and kind benefactor."
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"Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions."
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"The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators."
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"If your tears have lost the ability to hide your pain... why shedding them?"
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"Failure is information encased in a shell of pain."
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"As anyone who has been close to someone that has committed suicide knows, there is no other pain like that felt after the incident."
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"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."
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"If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?"
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"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."
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"April and May were painful, lonely months for me because I couldn't talk to you. I never knew that spring could be so painful and lonely. Better to have three Februaries than a spring like this."
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"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."
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"The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain."
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"The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain."
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