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Pain Quotes
"If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?"
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"As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain."
Pain,
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"Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to... Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain."
Pain,
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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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"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,
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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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"There's a club, if you'd like to goYou could meet somebody who really loves you.'So you go, and you stand on your ownAnd you leave on your ownAnd you go home, and you cryAnd you want to die."
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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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"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."
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"Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent."
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"If you are anguished with your failures, you despise and accuse those very adversities and held them responsible for your debacle."
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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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"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,
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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 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."
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"It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you."
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"Shot through the heart, and you're to blame! you give love, a bad name."
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"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."
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"I know what you are learning to endure. There is nothing to be done. Make sure nothing is wasted. Take notes. Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to."
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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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"How ya doing? Gabby's face came into view, and she grinned down at me. She'd stopped doing her healing thing, and the pain rushed in.'I'm just peachy, I quipped, throat scratchy. 'Only hurts when I breathe or blink or exist, if I'm being honest."
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"The dreams that surfaced upon meeting up with him again winked out of existence, stars darkening for good."
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"But Claire had long ago realized, even after those constant dreams of her mother leaving faded away, that when you are abandoned as a child, you are never able to forget that people are capable of leaving, even if they never do."
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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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"The tears creat havoc which stays on the eyelid ."
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"It had been so silent in the wake of that commotion, a kind of potent silence that seemed to contain everything. The songs of the birds and the creak of the trees. The dying snow and the unseen gurgling water. The glimmering sun. The certain sky. The gun that didn't have a bullet in its chamber. And the mother. Always the mother. The one who would never come to me."
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"I pull back, gasping for breath. Reeling. His breath is ragged, and I place my hands on his cheeks to steady him. 'Is this okay?' I whisper. 'Are you okay?'His reply is anguished. Honest. 'I love you."
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