Pain Quotes - Page 32

• When I was 13, I really used to skip down the street, happy in thinking, "Oh, well, someone's suffering pain in order for me to feel this pleasure."

  Zadie Smith

  Thinking, Order, Suffering

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Once I became an adult and started to pursue writing as a professional career, I realized my main characters were always young people. My stories naturally center around children and teenagers. I think it's because I have worked with youth for about twelve years. The pains and joys of adolescents are moments I witness on a daily basis, so their stories are always with me as I write.

  Renee Watson

  Children, Teenager, Writing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• One way to get very humble is to dedicate the work you're going to do to your community. And by community I mean that community you have a special vision for, that only you see, that no one else in a room sees. That special community in pain, that through a pain you've suffered, you're able to have that vision, that super-ray vision.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Humble, Mean, Community

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. You've already come through some things, which are very painful. If you've been alive until you're 35, you have gone through some pain. It cost you something. And you've come through it. So at least look at that. And have a sense to look at yourself and say, "Well, wait a minute. I'm stronger than I thought I was."

  Maya Angelou

  Waiting, Stronger, Looks

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom.

  Plato

  Coins, Virtue, Pleasure

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• I always wanted to be different and do things differently. I was a pain in the neck. I was challenging everything you wanted me to do and challenging people in school.

  Charles Koch

  School, People, Challenges

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Unfortunately, it does take pain to wake us up sometimes.

  Suzanne Giesemann

  Doe, Sometimes

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• There is a sense that science and politics are incompatible. I don't think so at all. I think it's important that scientists take great pains to make sure that ideology and personal bias and wishful thinking do not contaminate the collection and analysis and evidence.

  Rush D. Holt, Jr.

  Thinking, Important, Analysis

  "One of the Most Famous Scientists in the World Just Explained Why Trump Is an Existential Threat". Interview With Emily Atkin, www.motherjones.com. February 28, 2017.

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• In India, [in] the great documents like [the] Upanishads in eighth century B.C., you find some of the wisest [women] making great, learned speeches and then you worship them, but actually don't do very much about girls' education generally. So I think there has been a kind of dual presence of pain, respect, and saying you are great, etc., but not providing the basic facilities that make women able to lead the kind of life that they would like to and that men easily do.

  Amartya Sen

  Girl, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• As the perfect parent, God suffers emotional pain when his creatures, created in his own image and likeness, rebel against him and do evil instead of good.

  Roger E. Olson

  Emotional, Perfect Parents, Evil

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I don't go for safe options. Romantically, I go for people who are a pain in the ass.

  George Michael

  People, Safe, Ass

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Love is loss combined with pain.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Loss, Love Is

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

  Joseph Addison

  Happiness, Patience, Disappointment

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• As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on the bus, hearing them bang on about their aches and pains, both real and imagined.

  Julie Burchill

  Real, Kids, Bangs

  "Spare me from the whining women who are giving feminism a bad name". www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2012.

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• Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

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• We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

  George Eliot

  Jesus, Prayer, Miracle

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• I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.

  Sophie Marceau

  Childhood, Adults, Transition

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• Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Song, Struggle, Heart

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• If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not - you are not smiling about it.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Culture, Afros, Serious

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• I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.

  Audre Lorde

  Rain, Survival, Important

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.89, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• This pain, this dying, this is just normal. This is how life is. In fact, I realize, there never was an earthquake. Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy for dreaming of something else.

  Miranda July

  Dream, Crazy, Earthquakes

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• We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure ancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. We are weaned from our timidity In the flush of love's light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Memories, Loneliness

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• Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.

  Thomas Hardy

  Drama, Episodes, Mere

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• I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned. Adult. You have become adult.

  Harlan Ellison

  Philosophy, Sadness, Survival

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “Paingod: And Other Delusions”, p.36, Open Road Media

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• Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Treasure, Mercy

  Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, Rumi (2015). “Collected Poetical Works of Rumi (Delphi Classics)”, p.367, Delphi Classics

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