pain Quotes

“the best way to manage some kinds of pain fill thoughts, is to dare them to do their worst; to let them lie and gnaw at your heart till they are tired; and you find you still have a residue of life they cannot kill.”

― George MacDonald, Phantastes

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“I have yet to see a genius or a hero who, if stuck with a burning match, would feel less pain than his undistinguished average brother.”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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“Pain does not matter to a man.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

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“The pain was brilliant, like a poisonous inspiration.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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“when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.”

― Jane Austen, Persuasion

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“for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

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“For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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“Pain is like fabric: the stronger it is, the more it’s worth.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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“Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies”

― Rumi, Masnavi

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