P Quotes
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“PAIN.
The pain doesn't elevate, it shrivels. Far from improving us, it weakens us. It does not lead to sublime thoughts, it condemns people to no longer think at all.
Pain is not an ennobling privilege, quite a knocking down scourge.
LA DOULEUR.
" La douleur n’élève pas, elle ratatine. Loin de nous améliorer, elle nous amenuise. Elle ne conduit pas à des pensées sublimes, elle condamne à ne plus penser du tout.
La douleur n’a rien d’un privilège qui ennoblit, tout d’un fléau qui fout à terre. "
( Journal d'un amour perdu - 2019 - Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt )”
Source: Journal d'un amour perdu
“Pain throws your heart to the ground
Love turns the whole thing around
Fear is a friend who's misunderstood
But I know the heart of life is good”
“Pain told in our small time becomes a windswept seed to providently tend, and less a thistle snared deep between each breath.”
“Pain, too, comes from depths that cannot be revealed. We do not know whether those depths are in ourselves or elsewhere, in a graveyard, in a scarcely dug grave, only recently inhabited by withered flesh. This truth, which is banal enough, unravels time and the face, holds up a mirror to me in which I cannot see myself without being overcome by a profound sadness that undermines one's whole being. The mirror has become the route through which my body reaches that state, in which it is crushed into the ground, digs a temporary grave, and allows itself to be drawn by the living roots that swarm beneath the stones. It is flattened beneath the weight of that immense sadness which few people have the privilege of knowing. So I avoid mirrors.”
Source: The sand child
“Pain, torture or trauma cause bipolar and PTSD
and once you have it's hard to get free”
Source: Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries
“Pain, unless it is physical, was sold to you (by your culture).”
“Pain, Victor had learned, turned people into animals.”
Source: Vengeful
“Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire”
Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke
“Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.”
“Pain was a fascinating horror”
Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world
“Pain was fleeting. Death was forever.”
Source: Fate Abandoned
“Pain was good. If I hurt, it meant I wasn't dead.”
Source: Hunted: A House of Night Novel
“PAIN was no longer a cause of suffering, but a source of pleasure, Because they were redeeming humanity from its sins. Pain becomes joy, the meaning of life, pleasure.”
“Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.”
“Pain was one thing. I could take pain.
But I was pleasure's bitch.”
Source: How to Blow It with a Billionaire
“Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.”
Source: Boy and Going Solo
“Pain was the only sign to her that she was alive and could feel emotion.”
Source: His Last Letter: Elizabeth I and the Earl of Leicester
“Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits - which was exactly where they were supposed to be.”
Source: Leadership Secrets of the Rogue Warrior: A Commando's Guide to Success
“Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“Pain, when stripped of hate and fueled by ambition, transforms into the fire that forges your next level.”
“Pain, which is the feeling of our finiteness, is not a fixture in our life. It is not an end in itself, as joy is. To meet with it is to know that it has no part in the true permanence of creation.”
Source: Sadhana
“Pain will be his guru.”
Source: Brave Fortune
“Pain will come with time, but time will heal the pain.”
“Pain will force even the truthful to speak falsely.”
“Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure.”
Source: How to be Free
“Pain will present itself when it needs to. It will arise organically when you're in it, but you're not obligated to bring pain into this now when it's not naturally here. You don't need to wallpaper the present moment with suffering in order to prove that it matters.”
Source: Can't Stop Thinking: How to Let Go of Anxiety and Free Yourself from Obsessive Rumination
“Pain withheld becomes hate, pain shared becomes love.”
“Pain without cause is a pain we can't trust. We assume it's been chosen or fabricated.”
Source: The Empathy Exams
“Pain without suffering is like victory without struggle.”
Source: Shantaram
“Pain writes the words, sorrow wields the pen, tears wet the paper, and the story mends the heart.”
“Pain yells when we stop hearing what it’s trying to say.”
Source: How Deep Is the Wound?: A Guide to Investigating, Understanding, and Resolving Your Emotional Pain
“Pain. You overwhelm me," he said quietly. "And every time I see you or think of you, I can't grab a brush fast enough. I thought I couldn't paint you, but it turns out I've been painting you all along, from the beginning, before I even knew you.”
Source: Rough Canvas
“Pain! Deep, tearing, throbbing, needle-sharp, hammer-blunt pain – ripping through his body and through his mind, twisting deep in his guts and slicing at his skin with razors and broken glass. Oskan wanted to scream, but his vocal cords had burned away. He was desperate for water and he could hear it dripping all around him, but his charred tongue found nothing in his mouth but blisters and scorched flesh. For hours he lay on the ropes of the low bed, unable to move, the pressure of the hemp on his destroyed skin sending new agonies deep into his body.”
Source: The Icemark Chronicles #1: Cry of the Icemark
“Pain's nothing. Pain's what you give, not what you get.”
Source: Let The Great World Spin
“Pain, I came to feel, might well prove to be the sole proof of the persistence of consciousness within the flesh, the sole physical expression of consciousness. As my body acquired muscle, and in turn strength, there was gradually born within me a tendency towards the positive acceptance of pain, and my interest in physical suffering deepened.”
“Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.”
Source: The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Pain, loss and separation are inevitable on the path of love, and the only way of avoiding them is by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you have to renounce love.It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.”
“PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.”
Source: Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs
“Pain, no matter how prolonged it seems to be, is just a short-lived thing that one day, in one way or another, we will overcome.”
“pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence”
“Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!”
“Pain, sorrow, ignorance are all illusory; they cannot live. Bliss, joy, knowledge are true; they cannot die.”
“Pain, thou art not an evil”
Source: Delphi Works of Alexandre Dumas (Illustrated)
“Pain, tolerance, endurance-when it comes down to that point, there's always something left. You just have to find it.”
“Pain. I seem to have an affection, a kind of sweettooth for it. Bolts of lightning, little rivulets of thunder. And I the eye of the storm.”
“Pain? He could handle that, no problem; it was the idea that the female he loved was suffering that made him want to either punch something or vomit in the corner.”
“Pain? Yes, of course. Racing without pain is not racing. But the pleasure of being ahead outweighed the pain a million times over. To hell with the pain. What's six minutes of pain compared to the pain they're going to feel for the next six months or six decades. You never forget your wins and losses in this sport. YOU NEVER FORGET.”
“Paina kasvosi lapsen päälakeen.
Se on lintu siiviltään.
Kohta se jo rakentaa kivääriä
ja lohduttaa:
En minä sinua ammu,
minä ammun itseni.”
Source: Valovuodet
“Paine suffered then, as now he suffers not so much because of what he wrote as from the misinterpretations of others...
He disbelieved the ancient myths and miracles taught by established creeds. But the attacks on those creeds - or on persons devoted to them - have served to darken his memory, casting a shadow across the closing years of his life.
When Theodore Roosevelt termed Tom Paine a 'dirty little atheist' he surely spoke from lack of understanding. It was a stricture, an inaccurate charge of the sort that has dimmed the greatness of this eminent American. But the true measure of his stature will yet be appreciated. The torch which he handed on will not be extinguished. If Paine had ceased his writings with 'The Rights of Man' he would have been hailed today as one of the two or three outstanding figures of the Revolution. But 'The Age of Reason' cost him glory at the hands of his countrymen - a greater loss to them than to Tom Paine.
I was always interested in Paine the inventor. He conceived and designed the iron bridge and the hollow candle; the principle of the modern central draught burner. The man had a sort of universal genius. He was interested in a diversity of things; but his special creed, his first thought, was liberty.
Traducers have said that he spent his last days drinking in pothouses. They have pictured him as a wicked old man coming to a sorry end. But I am persuaded that Paine must have looked with magnanimity and sorrow on the attacks of his countrymen. That those attacks have continued down to our day, with scarcely any abatement, is an indication of how strong prejudice, when once aroused, may become. It has been a custom in some quarters to hold up Paine as an example of everything bad.
The memory of Tom Paine will outlive all this. No man who helped to lay the foundations of our liberty - who stepped forth as the champion of so difficult a cause - can be permanently obscured by such attacks. Tom Paine should be read by his countrymen. I commend his fame to their hands.
{The Philosophy of Paine, June 7, 1925}”
Source: Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison
“Paine was a grand fellow — high—with the most splendid sense of justice. But he was a reasoner — not warm — not letting out the natural palpitating passion... which perhaps he didn't have. But I see all that and more in Ingersoll. His imagination flames and plays up, up, up. It is a grand height! And he has so sharp a blade, too; is many-sided, gifted for great effects in different spheres. I don't suppose we ever had a man here so well adapted to that work.
{Whitman's thought on Thomas Paine and his good friend, Robert Ingersoll}”
Source: Walt Whitman's Camden conversations