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Quotes About Pain

Life damages the living.
~ Salman Rushdie
When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise unto the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain. It's the Western Way of Enlightenment. You begin to cram your fists into your mouth to stifle the screams. You bleed on the inside.
~ Salman Rushdie
There was a deep, sad wound in him, because he was a defeated man
~ Salman Rushdie
They say women have a much higher pain threshold. They say it's because we are the ones who have to go through childbirth. I say it's because women have a much higher everything than most men.
~ Salman Rushdie
Mândria r?nit? este suferinÈ›a din care-È›i revii cel mai greu, c?ci o fractur? la demnitatea È™i stima de sine a omului e mult mai grav? decât una la picior, iar vindecarea dureaz? È™i ea mult mai mult.
~ Salman Rushdie
We manage to avoid being happy while struggling to become happy, fulfilling one desire after the next, banishing our fears, grasping at pleasure, recoiling from pain—and thinking, interminably, about how best to keep the whole works up and running
~ Sam Harris
The burn of lifting weights, for instance, would be excruciating if it were a symptom of terminal illness. But because it is associated with health and fitness, most people find it enjoyable.
~ Sam Harris
Different techniques produce long-lasting changes in attention, emotion, cognition, and pain perception, and these correlate with both structural and functional changes in the brain.
~ Sam Harris
Love, you mock us for your sport.
~ Sophocles
Boxing is rough. Even if you win, you get hurt.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
It only hurt once, from beginning to end.
~ James Counsilman
Golf inflicts more pain than any other sport. If you're the sort of person whose self-worth is tied up in how you play, golf will cut you to the core of who you are.
~ James E. Loehr
Misery makes sport to mock itself.
~ William Shakespeare
You feel your strength in the experience of pain.
~ Jim Morrison
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
~ Karl Marx
Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain.
~ Jim Morrison
Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way.
~ Ray Dalio
Rather the pain of discipline than the pain of regret.
~ Bob Andrews
strength is overcome by weakness/Joy is overcome by Pain/The night is overcome by Brightness/and Love-it remains the same.
~ Tupac Shakur
God of peace, you are at the center of my life, a strong refuge of peace in the whirlwind of my pain. I look to you for strength and a constant assurance of hope.
~ Joyce Rupp
Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.
~ August Wilson
Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.
~ August Wilson
To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness.
~ Jean Giraudoux
To bear lightly the neck's yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure.
~ Pindar