PAIN QUOTES VII

quotations about pain

Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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There are only so many ways to experience pain. There are an almost limitless number of ways to inflict it, but the pain itself, initially vividly distinct in all its specifications, becomes, inevitably, just pain.

CHINA MIÉVILLE

Kraken

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Pain is ready, pain is waiting
Primed to do it's educating

DEPECHE MODE

"Dream On"

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But who can remember pain, once it's over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.

MARGARET ATWOOD

The Handmaid's Tale

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Pain, you just have to fight through, because the truth is you can't outrun it and life always makes more.

DR. MEREDITH GREY

"Bring the Pain", Grey's Anatomy, 2005


There is no thornless path in the world.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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Unless our souls had root in soil divine
We could not bear earth's overwhelming strife.
The fiercest pain that racks this heart of mine,
Convinces me of everlasting life.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"Pain's Proof"

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But pain ... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?

LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Barrayer

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I will give you a charm against sorrow: smile at the kisses of Pain.
She is a sensitive lover and likes not to be flouted.

ELSA BARKER

Songs of a Vagrom Angel

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