Without Pain Quotes - Page 4

• Courage would be impossible in a world without pain.

  Lee Strobel

  Pain, Suffering, Would Be

  Lee Strobel (2000). “The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity”, p.41, Harper Collins

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• One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Pain, Future, Science

  "The Making of Kubrick's 2001". Book by Jerome Agel, 1970.

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• Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is no quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.

  Henry Suso

  Pain, Law, Suffering

  "Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness". Book by Evelyn Underhill, p. 152, 1912.

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• And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth be at all within the reach of human capacity, it is certain it must lie very deep and abstruse: and to hope we shall arrive at it without pains, while the greatest geniuses have failed with the utmost pains, must certainly be esteemed sufficiently vain and presumptuous. I pretend to no such advantage in the philosophy I am going to unfold, and would esteem it a strong presumption against it, were it so very easy and obvious.

  David Hume

  Strong, Pain, Philosophy

  David Hume (1874). “A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects; and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion”, p.306

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• I learn from my mistakes. It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there’s no gain.

  Johnny Cash

  Pain, Mistake, Way

  The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• If you get operated, something can go wrong and you can just say bye-bye to tennis. That's what happened to a lot of soccer players in Europe. They get operated, some things, it's not the mistake of the doctor. It's just some surgeries, they just don't go the right way...My injury will never go away. It's already become so chronic there's no chance to fix it so I can play without pain.

  Marat Safin

  Soccer, Pain, Mistake

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• Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity. Without fear, there could be no humility, and every man would be a monster. The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.

  Dean Koontz

  Pain, Humility, Men

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Velocity: A Novel”, p.331, Bantam

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• Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.

  Herbert Spencer

  Beauty, Sculpture, Half

  Herbert Spencer (1866). “Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical”, p.72

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• What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

  Bernard Levin

  Dog, Pain, War

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• There are no grounds for supposing that one can live a life without pain and sadness, but is it wrong to believe that somehow, somewhere, this is possible?

  Hubert Butler

  Pain, Believe, Sadness

  Hubert Butler, Robert Fitzroy Foster (1990). “The sub-prefect should have held his tongue and other essays”, Viking Adult

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• Heaven is the perfect place to raise children. Everything will be just the way it was intended to be in the beginning, a perfect environment without pain and danger, accidents and death and the horrors of this world. Babies won't have to cry. - They'll have everything they need. We'll be able to read their little minds, and we won't have to wonder what they're needing. Just think of all the advantages of rearing children in Heaven. It will be pure pleasure!

  David Berg

  Baby, Children, Pain

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• The people who survive avoid snowball scenarios in which bad trades cause them to become emotionally destabilized and make more bad trades. They are also able to feel the pain of losing. If you don't feel the pain of a loss, then you're in the same position as those unfortunate people who have no pain sensors. If they leave their hand on a hot stove, it will burn off. There is no way to survive in the world without pain. Similarly, in the markets, if the losses don't hurt, your financial survival is tenuous.

  William Eckhardt

  Hurt, Pain, Loss

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• No one knows how greatness comes to a man. It may lie in his blackness, sleeping, or it may lance into him like those driven fiery particles from outer space. These things, however, are known about greatness: need gives it life and puts it in action; it never comes without pain; it leaves a man changed, chastened, and exalted at the same time--he can never return to simplicity.

  John Steinbeck

  Pain, Lying, Sleep

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.316, Penguin

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• Let every man in mankind's frailtyConsider his last day; and let nonePresume on his good fortune until he findLife, at his death, a memory without pain.

  Sophocles

  Pain, Memories, Men

  Sophocles (1977). “The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version”, Harcourt

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• Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings And some are treasured for their markings - They cause the eyes to melt Or the body to shriek without pain.

  Craig Raine

  Pain, Eye, Wings

  Craig Raine (2016). “My Grandmother's Glass Eye: A Look at Poetry”, p.155, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The resort to human flesh, often after months of ever-increasing hunger pangs, appeared to be an animallike reaction without painful emotional overtones.

  Pitirim Sorokin

  Emotional, Flesh, Months

  "The cannibal within" by Lewis Petrinovich, (p. 177), 2000.

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• I'd just like to be able to walk without pain or run without a limp.

  Mike Comrie

  Running, Pain, Able

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• There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.

  Joseph Addison

  Pain, Real, Noble

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• Without art; without paintings, books, sculpture and music, the human soul would be quite impenetrable, don't you think?

  Jonathan Hull

  Art, Book, Thinking

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• But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pain, Play, Ill

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.150, Graphic Arts Books

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• The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Time, Pain

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• Men educated in [the critical habit of thought]are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without certainty and without pain.

  William Graham Sumner

  Pain, Believe, Men

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• A woman without paint is like food without salt.

  Plautus

  Salt, Paint

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• Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful to us than any other.

  Sigmund Freud

  Pain, Men, Anxiety

  Sigmund Freud, Peter (AFT) Gay, Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• You will never understand pleasure without pain.

  T. D. Jakes

  Pain, Pleasure

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