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Pain Quotes by George Orwell
- Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the…
- The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is…
- All progressive thought has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain ... Hitler, because in his joyless mind…
- In the face of pain there are no heroes.
- He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into…
- It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body... On the battlefield,…
- Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face…
- Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should…
- Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.
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