Pain Quotes
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I almost never cry, and it's something I don't like about myself. I sometimes try and make myself cry. Sometimes, when I'm in pain, I say if I could just cry it would make it so much easier.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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I'm mindful not to get too self-pitying or too revealing of my own pain.
Chrissie Hynde
Pretenders
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When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
Ingrid Newkirk
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
Edmund Burke
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If you're not willing to accept the pain real values incur, don't bother going to the trouble of formulating a values statement. You'll be better off without one.
Patrick Lencioni
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I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death....is the true measure of the Divine within us.
Alan Brennert
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You don't want to try to protect yourself from the pain of a crisis. You want to learn everything you can from it.
Marianne Williamson
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Family occasions have always given Janice some pain, assembling like a grim jury these people to whom we owe something, first our parents and elders and then our children and their children. One of the things she and Harry secretly had in common, beneath all their troubles, was dislike of all that, these expected ceremonies.
John Updike
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If our hearts are ready for anything, we will spontaneously reach out when others are hurting. Living in an ethical way can attune us to the pain and needs of others, but when our hearts are open and awake, we care instinctively.
Tara Brach
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There is nothing abstract about pain. It is specific, it is real, and, when it is intense, it is world destroying.
Albert Camus
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Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain.
J. P. Donleavy
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Better to stay alive," I said. "At least while there's a chance to get free." I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was. It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain.
Octavia E. Butler
