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Pain Quotes
"We are all made complete by our pain."
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"Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain."
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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."
Pain,
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"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,
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"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."
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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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"Accepting our pain is a way to say we treasure the sacred gift of life - run to your pain."
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"Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent."
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"Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again."
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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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"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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"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!"
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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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"If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?"
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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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"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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"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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"The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain."
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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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"Failure is information encased in a shell of pain."
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"If your tears have lost the ability to hide your pain... why shedding them?"
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"The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain."
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"Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign."
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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