Physical Pain Quotes

• The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

  Karl Marx

  Strength, Depression, Pain

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• Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.

  George Orwell

  Pain, Hero, Wish

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.515, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Do you want a sign that you're asleep? Here it is: you're suffering. Suffering is a sign that you're out of touch with the truth. Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth, that you might understand that there's falsehood somewhere, just as physical pain is given to you so you will understand that there is disease or illness somewhere. Suffering occurs when you clash with reality. When your illusions clash with reality, when your falsehoods clash with truth, then you have suffering. Otherwise there is no suffering.

  Anthony de Mello

  Inspirational, Pain, Eye

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• The greatest evil is physical pain.

  Saint Augustine

  Pain, Evil

  Soliloquies I.21

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• There's nothing like a little physical pain to keep your mind off your emotional problems.

  John E. Sarno

  Pain, Emotional, Mind

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• There are two types of pain, the one that breaks you and the one that changes you. In the gym, pain is felt as a result of weakness leaving the body. Physical pain is the glue of transformation and the pain of progress. The more you endure the harder it gets to accept the thought of failure.

  Greg Plitt

  Pain, Two, Leaving

  FaceBook post by Greg Plitt from Oct 23, 2014

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• In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain.

  Haruki Murakami

  Pain, Essentials, Cases

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”, p.140, Random House

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• Physical pain is my friend. I pursue it every night for four hours.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Pain, Night, Four

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There is no physical pain, no spiritual wound, no anguish of soul or heartache, no infirmity or weakness you or I ever confront in mortality that the Savior did not experience first. In a moment of weakness we may cry out, “No one knows what it is like. No one understands.” But the Son of God perfectly knows and understands, for He has felt and borne our individual burdens.

  David A. Bednar

  Spiritual, Pain, Son

  "Bear Up Their Burdens with Ease". David A. Bednar's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2014.

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• You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Positive, Happiness, Meaningful

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• There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.

  Karl Marx

  Suicide, Pain, Self Harm

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1993). “Collected Works: Marx and Engels, 1880-83”, International Pub

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• I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.

  Katey Sagal

  Pain

  "Katey Sagal talks about Gemma's difficult journey on 'Sons of Anarchy'". Interview with Maureen Ryan, featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com. September 9, 2009.

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• You can run but you can't hide... but I can try. I feel air catch in my lungs and I get a cramp in my side and this pain, this wonderful physical pain that I can place, reminds me that after all I am still alive.

  Jodi Picoult

  Running, Pain, Air

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Suffering, Cost

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• Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.

  Ellen Key

  Pain, Punishment, Giving

  Ellen Key (1909). “The Century of the Child”

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• With every physical pain, my moral fibre unravels a little.

  Mason Cooley

  Pain, Littles, Moral

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• We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.

  Horace Walpole

  Fear, Pain, Loneliness

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• One whose spirit and mental strength have been strengthened by sparring with a never-say-die attitude should find no challenge too great to handle. One who has undergone long years of physical pain and mental agony to learn one punch, one kick, should be able to face any task, no matter how difficult, and carry it through to the end. A person like this can truly be said to have learned karate.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Pain, Attitude, Years

  Gichin Funakoshi (1994). “Karate-dō Nyūmon: The Master Introductory Text”, p.47, Kodansha International

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• Becoming less focused on the past and future and not resisting the moment is how to overcome fear, physical pain, and all suffering.

  Lee L Jampolsky

  Pain, Past, Suffering

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

  Alice James

  Pain, Fall, Soul

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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• Physical pain is problematic because it's very difficult to transcend that. Sometimes you're just in physical pain, and that's a bummer. Even then, there are beautiful things involved in the healing of that. I've experienced some.

  Alex Ebert

  Beautiful, Pain, Healing

  "Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.

  Dan Millman

  Stress, Mind, Resistance

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• Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.

  Anthony de Mello

  Eye, Objectivity, Giving

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.74, Image

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• Be comforted with this divine thought that your spiritual and physical pains are the test of the Divine Will.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Spiritual, Pain, Tests

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• Physical pain is not a simple affair of an impulse, travelling at a fixed rate along a nerve. It is the resultant of a conflict between a stimulus and the whole individual.

  Rene Leriche

  Pain, Simple, Nerves

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