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Quotes About Pain

Every thought that was devoted to it was an extreme anguish, and every word that I spoke in allusion to it caused my lips to quiver, and my heart to palpitate.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
What was I? The question again recurred, to be answered only with groans.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Nothing is more painful to the human mind, than, after the feelings have worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows, and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
that dear child; he now sleeps with his angel mother. His friends mourn and weep, but he is at rest: he does not now feel the murderer's grasp; a sod covers his gentle form, and he knows no pain. He can no longer be a fit subject for pity; the survivors are the greatest sufferers, and for them time is the only consolation.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Pero tenemos la obligación de esconder nuestro dolor para no aumentar el de los que nos rodean.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I learned that there was but one means to overcome the sensation of pain, and that was death.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
La muerte siega la vida de muchos niños, única promesa de sus amantes padres. ¿Cuántas novias hay y cuántos jóvenes enamorados que, radiantes un día de salud y esperanzas, son al día siguiente pasto de los gusanos? ¿De qué material estaría hecho yo para poder resistir tantos golpes que, como el girar de una rueda, renovaban continuamente mi tortura?
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul of both hope and fear
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
a thousand fanged thoughts stung me to the heart.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
all joy was but a mockery which insulted my desolate state and made me feel more painfully that I was not made for the enjoyment of pleasure.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Llega por fin el dái en que la pena es más un alivio que una necesidad y que la sonrisa, aunque juzgada casi un sacrilegio, puede afluir los labios. Mi madre había muerto [...]
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Time drags. Time is a monster with a neck bloated with blood.
~ Maryse Condé
Then when I saw Pain attack Hinata, I was so mad, so full of rage, I let the Nine-Tails take over without even thinking about it.
~ Masashi Kishimoto
Those who do not understand true pain, can never understand true peace.
~ Masashi Kishimoto
Sometimes you must Hurt in order to Know, Fall in order to Grow, Lose in order to Gain because life's greatest lessons are learned through Pain.
~ Masashi Kishimoto
Just by living, people hurt others without even realizing it. So long as humanity exists, hate will also exist. There is no peace in this cursed world. War is just a crime paid for by the pain of the defeated...
~ Masashi Kishimoto
Wake up to reality! Nothing ever goes as planned in this accursed world. The longer you live, the more you realize that the only things that truly exist in this reality are merely pain, suffering and futility. -Madara Uchiha
~ Masashi Kishimoto
Egli non ha mai conosciuto l'amore dei genitori e per colpa del suo segreto è sempre stato tenuto a distanza da quelli del villaggio. Per questo, per attirare l'attenzione della gente non può far altro che combinare dispetti. Il ragazzo desidera che in qualche modo qualcuno riconosca il suo valore. Anche se fa il duro, Naruto continua a soffrire.
~ Masashi Kishimoto
He died of peritonitis.
~ Masha Gessen
Studies on the phenomenon indicate that a person with a high tolerance for pain is likely to also have above-average capacity to cope with the stress of a job layoff or a cancer diagnosis, and this same person is more likely as well to have experienced a moderate amount of psychological trauma in his or her past. It would appear that a certain amount of misfortune is needed to toughen the mind against suffering and hardship, but excessive trauma leaves scar tissue.
~ Matt Fitzgerald
That it's possible. You just have to fight. It will not be easy. But you can manage. Because life is giving you as much pain as you are capable [of living] with. And on the end of that path, the goal will be reachable. You will have suffered to do [it], but it doesn't matter." I can think of no better words to encapsulate what it means to accept the reality of a difficult situation. It will not be easy. You will suffer. But it doesn't matter.
~ Matt Fitzgerald
Tolerance for suffering is also trainable. Once a runner has discovered that she can suffer more than she thought she could, her perception of effort changes in a lasting way.
~ Matt Fitzgerald
To me this is a dangerous doctrine, which justifies inflicting real pain in the here and now on disadvantaged people on the basis of forestalling a distant possibility of doom.
~ Matt Ridley
If climate change proves to be mild but cutting carbon causes real pain, we may find we have stopped a nose bleed by putting a tourniquet round our neck.
~ Matt Ridley