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Quotes About Pain

What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. If Hitler had been born in Nazi Germany he wouldn't have been content to enjoy the atmosphere.
~ Leonard Cohen
From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which we start.
~ Leonard Cohen
what is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. if Hitler had been born in Nazi Germany he wouldn't have been content to enjoy the atmosphere.
~ Leonard Cohen
I ache in the places where I used to play...
~ Leonard Cohen
Pigskin crackling on my thumb, nummy nummy I hate pain.
~ Leonard Cohen
The crumbs of love that you offer me They're the crumbs I've left behind Your pain is no credential here It's just the shadow, shadow of my wound
~ Leonard Cohen
Brevman conosce una ragazza di nome Shell che si è fatta fare i buchi alle orecchie per mettersi lunghi orecchini di filigrana. I fiori si sono infettati e adesso lei ha una piccola cicatrice su ciascun lobo. Lui le ha scoperte sotto i capelli di lei. (…) I bambini mostrano le cicatrici come medaglie. Gli amanti le usano come segreti da svelare. Una cicatrice è quello che succede quando la parola si fa carne.
~ Leonard Cohen
La paura gli stava dentro come un cane arrabbiato: guaiva, ansava, sbavava, improvvisamente urlava nel suo sonno; e mordeva, dentro mordeva, nel fegato nel cuore. Di quei morsi al fegato che continuamente bruciavano e dell'improvviso doloroso guizzo del cuore come di un coniglio vivo in bocca al cane, i medici avevano fatto diagnosi, e medicine gli avevano dato da riempire tutto il piano del comò: ma non sapevano niente, i medici, della sua paura.
~ Leonardo Sciascia
No more did the frozen heart ache.
~ Leonid Andreyev
There was no remedy for the needle in my heart with its long thread of old blood.
~ Leonora Carrington
The ideal which I strive to realize in my life is the serene sensuousness of the Greeks--pleasure without pain. I do not believe in the kind of love which is preached by Christianity, by the moderns, by the knights of the spirit. Yes, look at me, I am worse than a heretic, I am a pagan.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
The blows, as you see, have agreed with me; the roseate supersensual mist has dissolved, and no one can ever make me believe that these 'sacred apes of Benares' or Plato's rooster are the image of God
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Is there for the lover any greater cruelty than the faithlessness of his beloved?" "Oh," she countered, "so long as we love we are faithful, but you want faithfulness without love from the woman and giving of herself without pleasure Ã¢â'¬â€œ so who is the cruel one Ã¢â'¬â€œ the man or the woman?
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
And you are the first woman I've ever loved,' he continued calmly. 'I love you so much that it makes me suffer, but I'm not suffering because I can't possess you. I'm suffering because it's impossible for me to love you. It tears my heart apart that such a magnificent nature has resulted in such an ugly character.'   
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
No has más corona de espinas que los recuerdos que se clavan en la carne y hacen aullar como aullaban en el Gólgota los dos ladrones.
~ Leopoldo María Panero
No book or expert can protect us from the range of painful emotions that make us human.
~ lerner harriet
Angry people may appear strong, willful, or certain, but be assured that beneath the veneer are fear and loneliness and insecurity and pain. Especially, there is pain.
~ Les Carter
Despite the destructive nature of this personality profile, many narcissists have a history of appearing friendly and agreeable-at first. Only after people have ongoing exposure to the private world of a narcissist do they experience the pain such a person can cause.
~ Les Carter
You know that you have been stabbed when you feel the deep pain of betrayal.
~ Les Parrott
Backstabbing is nothing new. In biblical times,King David experienced the pain of betrayal.
~ Les Parrott
Storing up pain, nurturing your hurt, plotting revenge - all these punish you more than they do the backstabbers.
~ Les Parrott
his eyes narrowed in what seemed to be intense pain or grief, and others when he'd shudder violently. Whichever way it happened, he was left helplessly weak as the words formed inside him, waiting to be recited into the world. The pain was an essential part of it, part of the birthing process, for this is what he was doing: verse by verse, he was giving birth to the Quran.
~ Lesley Hazleton
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness — otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
~ Leslie Caron
In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
~ Leslie Caron