Pains Quotes
609 Pains quotes by 439 unique authors
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In the case of most pains let this remark of Epicurus aid thee, that the pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting, if thou bear in…
— Marcus Aurelius
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He who knows how to wait for what he desires does not feel very desperate if he fails in obtaining it; and he, on the…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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When a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains.
— Harper Lee
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Discomfort is a pain. Boredom is a pain. A perfect piece of music can reduce us to tears. Every one of these pains is essential…
— Ruben Papian
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I had a very full life, with pains and losses, of course. I lost all the people I was closest to: my partner, my father,…
— Giovanna Cau
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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
— Democritus
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I write for the people I grew up with. I took extreme pains for my book to not be a native informant. Not: 'This is…
— Junot Diaz
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
— John Dryden
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Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don't they realize that it's gross? I understand it's an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends…
— Kirsten Dunst
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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in…
— George Eliot
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It pains me whenever there's the death of a law enforcement official.
— Eric Holder
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
— Joseph Joubert
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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
— John Keats
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Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well,…
— Jonathan Kozol
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The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.
— Margaret Mead
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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
— Michel de Montaigne
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The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is…
— Henri Nouwen
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I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own…
— Michelle Obama
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Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was…
— Vanessa Paradis
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I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is.…
— Emo Philips
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Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer myself.
— Daniel Radcliffe
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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Who Wrote These Pains Quotes
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