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Wednesday, 3 December 2008
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests" (Vidal, Gore - Language)

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Browse Quotations about Pain

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be nor more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain. [Revelation]
-- Bible | Pain
Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth a minute.
Even Pain pricks to livelier living.
Everything hurts.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.
It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again.
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.
On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
One pain is lessened by another's anguish.
Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.
Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.
Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.
Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.
Pain is life -- the sharper, the more evidence of life.
Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment.
Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.
Pain pays the income of each precious thing.
Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits -- which was exactly where they were supposed to be.
Pain with the thousand teeth.
Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!
Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are.
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain.
Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.
Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.
Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
That which is escaped now is pain to come.
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
The greatest evil is physical pain.
The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.
The injuries we do and the injuries we suffer are seldom weighed on the same scales.
-- Aesop | Pain
The longer the life the more the offense, the more the offense the more the pain, the more the pain the less defense and the less defense the less the gain.
The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
There are no gains without pains.
There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.
There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer --committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.
There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?
This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
To banish cares, scare away sorrow and soothe pain is the business of the poet and singer.
To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

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