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Quotes About Pain

Ideas are substitutes for sorrows...
~ Marcel Proust
Her memory was a burning pillow which she kept turning and turning.
~ Marcel Proust
This was because intense physical suffering had enforced a regime on him. Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed: to kindness, to knowledge we make promises only; pain we obey.
~ Marcel Proust
but the sword Of MICHAEL from the Armorie of God Was giv'n him temperd so, that neither keen Nor solid might resist that edge: it met The sword of SATAN with steep force to smite Descending, and in half cut sheere, nor staid, But with swift wheele reverse, deep entring shar'd All his right side; then SATAN first knew pain
~ John Milton
Confounded, though immortal. But his doom, reserved him to more wrath; for now the thought both of lost happiness and lasting pain torments him.
~ John Milton
Only supreme in misery!
~ John Milton
But his doom 54: Reserv'd him to more wrath; for now the thought 55: Both of lost happiness and lasting pain 56: Torments him; round he throws his baleful eyes 57: That witness'd huge affliction and dismay 58: Mixt with obdurate pride and stedfast hate:
~ John Milton
Act of Grace my former state; how soon Would highth recal high thoughts, how soon unsay What feign'd submission swore: ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void. For never can true reconcilement grow Where wounds of deadly hate have peirc'd so deep: Which
~ John Milton
For who would lose, though full of pain, this intellectual being, those thoughts that wander through eternity to perish rather, swallowed up and lost in the wide womb of uncreated Night?
~ John Milton
but the sword   Of MICHAEL from the Armorie of God   Was giv'n him temperd so, that neither keen   Nor solid might resist that edge: it met   The sword of SATAN with steep force to smite   Descending, and in half cut sheere, nor staid,   But with swift wheele reverse, deep entring shar'd   All his right side; then SATAN first knew pain
~ John Milton
pain? where there is then no good 31: For which to strive, no strife can grow up there
~ John Milton
pain, that with ambitious mind 35: Will covet more.
~ John Milton
Hay alguien que ame el dolor? ¿Quién, hallando un camino, no huiría del infierno aunque estuviese a él condenado?
~ John Milton
of thee/ Pains only in child-bearing were foretold; soon recompensed with joy, fruit of thy womb
~ John Milton
You can't love here. This is Hell.
~ Unknown
Love is not something you save and hoard. You're born with it and you spend it when you have to and there's always more because you're a woman and there's always suffering and pain and gentleness and sadness to make it grow.
~ Unknown
Somebody once said that the biggest difference between you and God is that God doesn't think he's you. In pain, we get very clear about not being God.
~ John Ortberg Jr.
hope and dreams, but has now plateaued, where affections have cooled and intimacy has faded. Rather than name the problem, face their pain, and ask for help, the couple resign themselves to a life of mediocrity, living together as intimate strangers.
~ John Ortberg Jr.
need to go the the choirpractor one of these days.
~ John R. Erickson
pain was weakness leaving the body.
~ John Ringo
She was wondering about that when the 300-grain .338 slug ripped through her heart. Grant felt no impact, no pain. She did feel
~ John Sandford
bleeding heavily, her eyes flat with
~ John Sandford
Kidd could feel an incipient hernia when he even thought about that night. . . .
~ John Sandford
Every creature has a survival instinct. It looks like fear but it's not the same thing. Fear isn't the desire to avoid death or pain. Fear is rooted in the knowledge that what you recognize as yourself can cease to exist. Fear is existential.
~ John Scalzi