Quotes by pain

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  Kahlil Gibran
  Libian painter and writer 1883-1931

  

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  Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
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  George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic 1856-1950

  

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  Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.
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  Blaise Pascal
  French physicist, mathematician and philosopher 1623-1662

  

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  Eloquence is an art of saying things in such a way—(1) that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain and with pleasure; (2) that they feel themselves interested, so that self-love leads them more willingly to reflection upon it.
  Source: Pensees (1669)
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  Barbara Kingsolver
  American novelist, essayist and poet 1955-

  

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  Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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  Ovid
  Roman poet 43 BC - 17 AD

  

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  Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
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  Amy Lowell
  American poet, criticus 1874-1925

  

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  Even Pain pricks to livelier living.
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  Mary Cholmondeley
  

  

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  Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.
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  Homer
  Greek poet c. 850 -? BC

  

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  For too much rest becomes a pain.
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  Francis Thompson
  English poet and mystic 1859-1907

  

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  For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.
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  John Lennon
  British musician 1940-1980

  

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  God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
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  C. S. Lewis
  Irish novelist and poet 1898-1963

  

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  God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.
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  William Hazlitt
  English writer 1778-1830

  

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  Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
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  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  Roman statesman and writer 106 BC - 43 BC

  

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  Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
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  Anne Grant
  Scottish poet and author 1755-1838

  

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  Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
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  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  English poet 1792-1822

  

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  He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure.