Pain Quotes

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  It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.

  Rose Kennedy

  Time, Get Well, Healing

  Stanley Weintraub, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, John McDonald Burke, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward (1974). “Whistler”

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• Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Murakami Haruki, (2012). “L'arte di correre”, p.8, Giulio Einaudi Editore

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• There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Sad, Depression, Hurtful

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• The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Boyfriend, Wisdom

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• Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

  Bob Dylan

  Sad, Beautiful, Kind

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  It's easy to look at people and make quick judgments about them, their present and their past, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceberg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Past, Sight, People

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.526, Macmillan

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• Pain only hurts when you are looking for a reason to quit. You don't feel a thing when you know you can still win.

  Dane Cook

  Hurt, Winning, Quitting

  Twitter post from Oct 9, 2011

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• Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

  Ovid

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.

  George R. R. Martin

  Being Hurt, Old Wounds, Broken

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.50, Bantam

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• Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Inspirational, Positive, Courage

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• Take ones adversity
  Learn from their misfortune
  Learn from their pain
  Believe in something
  Believe in yourself
  Turn adversity into ambition
  Now blossom into wealth

  Tupac Shakur

  Believe, Ambition, Adversity

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• Turn your wounds into wisdom.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Oprah Winfrey (2017). “The Wisdom of Sundays: Life-Changing Insights and Inspirational Conversations”, p.120, Pan Macmillan

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• The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.

  Publilius Syrus

  Inspirational, Mind, Body

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• Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

  Eric Mangini

  Inspirational, Strength, Motivational Sports

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• Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Depression, Running

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• Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

  Simone Weil

  Roots, Evil, Mystery

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.69, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

  Walter Anderson

  Moving On, Thankful, Gratitude

  Walter Anderson (1997). “The Confidence Course: Seven Steps to Self-Fulfillment”, Harpercollins

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• The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine.

  Philip Sidney

  Life And Death, Monsters, Hell

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• There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Gratitude, Revenge, Mind

  'The Rambler' no. 87 (15 January 1751)

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• Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

  C. S. Lewis

  Grief, Losing Everything, Hurt So Much

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• Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

  Laurence Sterne

  Success, Light, Darkness

  Laurence Sterne (1860). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters, Etc”, p.573

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• A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

  Neil Young

  Men, Pleasure, Young

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• You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

  Jim Morrison

  Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

  "Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.

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• You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.

  Alexander Pope

  Giving, Joy, Rage

  Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The poems of Alexander Pope”, p.91

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• The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

  Karl Marx

  Strength, Depression, Philosophical

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