Pain Quotes - Page 39

• Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Moving, Heart, Glaciers

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• Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Color, Happy Hour

  1914 The Diaries of Paul Klee 1898-1918, entry 926.

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• Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.

  Allen Klein

  Humor, Space, Doe

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• Suffering is always hard to quantify - especially when the pain is caused by as cruel a disease as Alzheimer's. Most illnesses attack the body; Alzheimer's destroys the mind - and in the process, annihilates the very self.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Alzheimer's, Self, Mind

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• Everybody loves to spend money at least some of the time - because everybody loves the stuff you can buy with it. The key to the pleasure level of any transaction is the balance between the pain of the payment and the reward of the purchased object.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Keys, Balance, Levels

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• Spending $1 for a brand new house would feel very, very good. Spending $1,000 for a ham sandwich would feel very, very bad. Spending $19,000 for a small family car would feel, well, more or less right. But as with physical pain, fiscal pain can depend on the individual, and everyone has a different threshold.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Car, House, Different

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• If you don't know about pain and trouble, you're in sad shape. They make you appreciate life.

  Evel Knievel

  Hurt, Appreciate, Shapes

  "Evel Knievel: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. November 30, 2007.

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• Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

  Ed Koch

  Motivational, Art, Business

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• Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.

  Dean Koontz

  Love, Writing, Teeth

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• At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Book, Writing, Years

  The Education World Interview, www.educationworld.com.

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• The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

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• There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

  Milan Kundera

  Compassion, Imagination, Empathy

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

  R. D. Laing

  Bipolar, Trying, Destroying Ourselves

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• Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Sympathy, Death, Condolences

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “Raphael: Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty”, p.29

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• You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.

  Queen Latifah

  Moving, Dust, Trying

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• Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.

  Hugh Laurie

  Events, Way, Deals

  Hugh Laurie (1998). “The Gun Seller”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• I think pain is a very - it's an extremely hard thing to empathize moment to moment. And you often don't remember your own pain, you know, that moment that you broke a limb or you burned yourself or, I think, this is a common thing that women talk about with childbirth, that the memory of the pain is hard to summon up and relive, thankfully.

  Hugh Laurie

  Memories, Thinking, Common

  "Hugh Laurie's 'House': No Pain, No Gain". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 25, 2012.

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• I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer.

  Hugh Leonard

  Wife, Levels, Found

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• Adrenaline is wonderful. It covers pain. It covers dementia. It covers everything.

  Jerry Lewis

  Wonderful, Adrenaline, Dementia

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• When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience.

  Jerry Lewis

  Hurt, Adrenaline, Audience

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• If I found the cure for dystrophy tomorrow, I would do a telethon in four weeks for acute pain that in this country is a bigger problem than cancer, heart, sickle cell, anemia, name it. It is - it's hitting 70 million Americans.

  Jerry Lewis

  Country, Cancer, Heart

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• This is the pain pacemaker. I've got a battery under my skin. From that battery are two electrodes that go into the spine where they cut bone away to accommodate it. Now I put on the power here. If I have the pain, the stimulator starts. It's tingling, like when your foot falls asleep, you know?

  Jerry Lewis

  Fall, Cutting, Two

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• I don't think you should exploit your own pain.

  Laura Linney

  Thinking, Should, Exploits

  "Laura Linney Explores the Art, Artifice of Acting". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. November 28, 2007.

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• With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.

  Laura Linney

  Character, School, Emotional

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Suffering, Literature, Feels

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.16, Wildside Press LLC

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