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Pain Quotes by Ayn Rand
- Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no right to condemn…
- Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your…
- She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness...
- For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling.
- Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
- Don't think of them now. Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them. You're here. It's…
- It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that’s the sin that can’t be forgiven--that I hadn’t done what I wanted. It feels…
- It meant nothing to him any longer, only a faint tinge of sadness--and somewhere within him, a drop of pain moving briefly and vanishing, like…
- You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of…
- No happy person can be quite so impervious to pain (Gail Wynand to Dominique Francon)
- You have no choice about your capacity to feel that something is good for you or evil, but what you will consider good or evil,…
- It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering. I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside,…
More Pain Quotes
- The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. — Aristotle
- Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
- Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain… — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. — Lance Armstrong
- Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons. — Lance Armstrong
- Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that… — Kevyn Aucoin
- The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. — Marcus Aurelius
- What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay the… — Paul Auster
- Pain is never permanent. — Teresa of Avila