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Quotes About Pain

Good-bye... why am I hemorrhaging ?
~ Boris Pasternak
I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.
~ George McGovern
Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty.
~ Roger L'Estrange
I've got a good shepherd; you've got a sadistic dentist.
~ Amy-Jill Levine
Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.
~ Karen Armstrong
You pay for good days by then having bad days. You pay for joy with pain.
~ Taylor Swift
Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.
~ Alice Hoffman
Sometimes the pain outweighs the good things.
~ Carolyn Hax
I've never formally trained for pain management, but I have a good understanding of how to conquer it. I just analyze the pain, feel it in the moment, and then mentally become numb to it.
~ Criss Angel
Lyall understood a broken heart, but it could not be allowed to rumple perfectly good shirtwaists.
~ Gail Carriger
I haven't got a good reputation with pain.
~ Guido Palau
Good thing he's dead," Lula said, "or that would have hurt like the devil.
~ Janet Evanovich
I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?
~ Liz Phair
Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.
~ Mary Karr
Ireland is not in a good place at the moment. We have our own humiliation of losing our economic sovereignty, and we're now regaining it slowly and painfully.
~ Mary Robinson
All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.
~ Rebecca West
Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.
~ Sophie Swetchine
Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brishing your teath is the hardest part of the day - it all just hurts.
~ Tom Brady
Everything that's difficult you should be able to laugh about.
~ Louis C. K.
That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.
~ Kathy Mattea
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
~ Khalil Gibran
Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb
~ Seneca the Younger
Pain is a great teacher, but most of us would rather learn some other way.
~ Jennifer James