Quotations About / On: PAIN

  • 31.
    People do not become convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity or of the seriousness of your pain until you are dead.
    (Albert Camus (1913-1960), French-Algerian novelist, dramatist, philosopher. The Fall, p. 79, Gallimard (1956).)
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  • 32.
    Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
    (Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), British novelist. Mr. Scogan, in Crome Yellow, ch. 15 (1922).)
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  • 33.
    Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?
    (Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Agamemnon, l. 553.)
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  • 34.
    You, in this or better thoughts, ease your pains, and drink up, if you can.
    (François Rabelais (1494-1553), French author, evangelist. Ch. 1, p. 10, Pleiade edition (1995).)
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  • 35.
    Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
    (Simone Weil (1909-1943), French philosopher, mystic. repr. in First and Last Notebooks, pt. 3, ed. Richard Rees (1970). New York Notebook (written 1942, published 1950).)
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  • 36.
    It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.
    (Yves Saint Laurent (b. 1936), French couturier. Ritz (London, 1984), no. 85. In the same article, Saint Laurent described fashion as a "kind of vitamin for style.")
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  • 37.
    I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
    (Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher. The Will to Power, bk. 2, note 362 (1888, trans. 1967).)
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  • 38.
    Sometimes we can't avoid giving pain, even to friends.
    (Kenneth Langtry. Herbert L. Strock. Margaret (Phyllis Coates), Teenage Frankenstein, apologizing to the monster for hurting him with an injection (1957).)
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  • 39.
    Children enjoy inflicting pain until unhappiness teaches them tenderness.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Tenth Selection, New York (1992).)
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  • 40.
    Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Third Selection, New York (1986).)
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