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Quotes About Pain

And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing.
~ Ricardo Montalban
That's not a villain, that's a man whose a victim of being in love with the wrong one.
~ Rod Steiger
The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
One man's magic is another man's gluey torture session.
~ Jackie Earle Haley
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
~ John Donne
Well, you may not know this, but there's things that gnaw at a man worse than dying.
~ Charlie Waite
I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I think my liver is diseased. Then again, I don't know a thing about my illness; I'm not even sure what hurts.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Of men eternally dear! happy indeed If you have breathing-space From pain: blessed all the more If death should heal you of the pain you fear!
~ Giacomo Leopardi
A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.
~ Neil Young
I met a young man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred.
~ Bob Dylan
Born down in a dead man's town, The first kick I took was when I hit the ground, You end up like a dog that's been beat too much, Till you spend half your life just covering up...
~ Bruce Springsteen
I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.
~ Pat Morita
There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.
~ Homer
Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
So what's the most atrocious thing you've seen?" He waved his hand: "Man, of course!
~ Jonathan Littell
I've never met a man I didn't mutilate.
~ Vivian Stanshall
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
~ Cardinal Richelieu
When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
~ Anthony Trollope
It is the lot of man to suffer.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains.
~ Benjamin Franklin
A basis for much of the pain women suffer in real life is they must somehow resolve their devotion to men.
~ Billy Cannon
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
~ Cesare Pavese
I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self is so great a violation, that it is not to be endured.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Satan exploits pain by making it the central focus of the man's (or woman's) thoughts and attitudes.
~ Erwin W. Lutzer