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We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation.

George Bernard Shaw

Pain is never permanent.

Saint Teresa Of Avila

Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Oscar Wilde

The ancient books are everything I want; their wisdom is the balm that soothes my pain.

Moses Ibn Ezra

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

Aeschylus

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

Aeschylus

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Aeschylus

The most painful state of living is remembering the future.

Soren Kierkegaard

You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.

Frank Sinatra

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

John Lennon

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.

Edgar Allan Poe

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.

William Shakespeare

This country of endured but unendurable pain.

Tennessee Williams

This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.

Herodotus

The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.

Erica Jong

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

J. K. Rowling

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

William Faulkner

The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.

Peter McWilliams

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Publilius Syrus

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

Christopher Morley

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

Lance Armstrong

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

Frank Leahy

Sometimes, the only people that the parent of other murdered children can talk to are other parents who have experienced their pain.

Helen Hubbard

It was one of the most, if not the most, studied pain relievers ever to go on the market except aspirin.

Christy Jones

However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

Frantz Fanon

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.

Samuel Johnson

He who makes a beast of himself, gets rid of the pain of being a man.

Samuel Johnson

Pain doesn't travel in straight lines. It circles back around and comes up behind you. It's the circles that kill you.

Pat Conroy

[Dewberry] told me there's nobody faster than you, I need you to be out there and you can't worry about your pain.

Ashley Thomas

The lack of a true national health care system is a man-made disaster that is causing unneeded pain, suffering and death.

Deborah Burger

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

R. D. Laing

This is the first time we have actually measured pain activity in the human brain.

Professor Maria Fitzgerald

Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to...Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain.

Whitey Ford

The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

C.S. Lewis

And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.

Thomas Moore

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

Paulo Coelho

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Bob Marley

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Kahlil Gibran

My painting carries with it the message of pain.

Frida Kahlo

Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.

Charles Kingsley

There's demand for these bonds from somebody who needs duration. The economic backdrop would suggest that buying 30-year Treasuries at 4.47 would end up being a painful trade.

David Durrant

Some people can even feel physical pain -- problems with indigestion, heartburn or headaches.

Cecil Wilson

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Mary Tyler Moore

Patients with pain and mobility disorders won't have to travel to multiple clinics for their care.

Jolynn Johnson

When the last time you threw a baseball you were feeling a sharp pain in your shoulder.

Jake Peavy

He's in pain a lot of the time.

Jack Hilger

I'm sure it was really painful to her. She invested a lot of personal energy in it.

Peggy Northrop

I couldn't bring Eric down. I was in survival mode... . Everybody was in such pain.

Linda Pardo

There's still a little bit of pain, it's still kind of there. But it's good enough to practice and play. Hopefully it will just fade away now over the next couple of weeks.

Sergei Samsonov

Consumers are trying to displace the pain for a few weeks.

Jeff Lenard

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.

Jacob Bronowski

If you have depression and chronic pain, it's important to figure out what came first. Chronic pain sufferers often get a stigma if we can't find a structural reason for the pain.

Verle Valentine

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Charlie Chaplin

If I have caused you any pain, I'm truly sorry.

Richard Mansfield

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

John Patrick

Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

Mary Tyler Moore

Expectations of decreased pain powerfully reduced both the subjective experience of pain and activation of pain-related brain regions.

Robert Coghill

I'm all battered and I feel pain but I hope I can continue. My goal is to win a stage soon.

Mario Cipollini

Our view is that the G8 was a great opportunity. Although there was some short-term pain, there will be long-term gain.

Andrew Johnston

There's a huge disparity between what you see on-screen and off camera, ... There's a lot of tragedy and pain. Their ability to hide it is just awesome.

Andrew Miller

No excessive force, no pain compliance, no impact weapons.

Jim Coats

My mood altered and the pain turned to rage.

Ariel Sharon

You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.

Jack Youngblood

There is no question that Saddam has been a pain in the neck ever since.

Lawrence Eagleburger

It's something that's on my mind all the time. But I'm not restricted to nothing. I can do things that won't bother my back. Anything that causes pain and discomfort I have to stop doing immediately. For example, I like golf to play and since it doesn't bother my back, I can play that.

Logan Whitman

I don't know if we ever fully get over the pain of watching a child trying to find their way through a world that too often doesn't understand.

Anne Ford

What I like about vampires is what I like about everything I want to write about, the depths and heights, the pain and joy. Life.

Tanith Lee

They played with a lot of mental toughness and awareness. They played through some pain and never gave up ... I was proud of them.

John Devries

As painful as this is to say, it isn't fair to bring them up here when the cost of living is 300, 400, 500 times higher than what they're used to. Will we love and embrace them? Yes. Is there a future here for this population? Probably not.

Nan Sundeen

We kill each other, ... Black men are in pain, and, in some cases, black men are reacting to years of institutional racism and chronic habitual insults. But it's how we react to that pain that's a concern. This is a major issue in our community.

Robert Atwell

It's painful for parents to know their child is going to cry and hurt. At some visits, a baby can get five shots, and that is difficult to watch.

Carolyn Bortz

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.

William Somerset Maugham

A lot of folks keep it hidden because they're afraid their employer will hear about it. We've got to break this stigma that pain is a weakness and [an excuse] that is used to get out of things.

Wayne Hochwarter

Time heals old pain, while it creates new ones.

Hebrew Proverb

Are these offenses painful to watch or what?

Cliff Christl

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Anais Nin

It's just painful. You have to carry insulin which needs to be refrigerated. It's not convenient.

Lynn Rich

What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

George Eliot

We go in and care for the patient offering aggressive pain control, aggressive symptom control.

John Grady

I've had patients who did very well with bee venom therapy but found the injections too painful.

Ross Hauser

I'm not going to say there's absolutely no pain, but I can play. Now it's just like going out and being sore. Everybody else is sore. You have to play with pain. So that's how I look at it. Let's just say I feel pretty darn good. I'm excited to see what (today) brings.

Charde Houston

Once the kids come, we encourage (dancers) to play with them to keep their minds off standing for 48 hours. Anything to keep their minds off of the pain. It's about being here for a purpose. They are the purpose.

Meghan Pituch

This whole year has been very scary and pain filled.

Gary Holcomb Sr

The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arise from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I know for me personally (after Friday's game), I just wanted to come in and bring them energy. I was still going to give it my all. I felt the energy from the crowd and that took my pain away.

Ralph Holmes

They keep talking about the pain he might get from a needle. Look at the long, long torture of what he put her through, striking her in the head 23 times.

Barbara Christian

I know the energy level will be very high, ... People have been asking me about tickets. If I'm not 100 percent, I'm sure the adrenaline will carry me through the pain.

Vincent Jackson

Go where the pain is.

Darby Williams

He really felt the pain of that loss (to Hopkins in the conference meet). Ever since then, he really stepped it up. He has a different attitude and determination and he just goes after people now.

Andy Weiss

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

Barbara Kingsolver

In the country of pain we are each alone.

May Sarton

Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain / Clings cruelly to us.

John Keats

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

Havelock Ellis

Once again, I thank The Ledger's readers for their growing generosity every year. Because of that generosity, many families here are feeling a little less pain.

Skip Perez

I'm still in constant pain. But meditation makes the pain more bearable. It's taught me how to live with it and to find ways to better manage it.

Imogene Benson

This is a job, but a job I love. For the 20 minutes (I am in the ring), I do not feel the pain.

Little Kato

They got knocked into the toilet. My dog ate my homework. Oh, and it ate my pain medication. ... They got stolen.

Marc Kleinman

But without painful experiences we don't grow.

Betty Williams

He never expressed anything to me about pain.

Larry Garza

I just kind of gradually was able to lift more within two weeks very little pain and of course a small scar.

Cecilia Farley

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

Walter Bagehot

The ball was really coming out of his hand well. I don't think his arm strength is built up quite enough, but he said he had no pain. He just needs some more time on the mound. It was good to see him back out there.

Dave Piepenbrink

We wanted to pull this one out for Skipper, with the pain he's going through.

Mike Sweeney

That's the scary thing about heart disease. You can be fine one minute and dead the next. You can put up with a little chest pain every once in a while if you know you're not about to die from it.

Mark Hlatky

Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.

Jerry Flint

If the Democrats should win, it would be a pain for the United States because we'll probably see yet another ally on the long list of those who have pulled out.

Thomas Berger

Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.

Malcolm Lowry

New York has all that intense hatred and pain-just torture-where everything is 10 times as hard as it needs to be, and everything is terribly important.

Beth Anderson

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

Pierre Charron

It's easy to forget that nurses are human and that sometimes they need to be rescued from life's devastating circumstances. Nurses House offers nurses who are in pain and suffering a helping hand and a warm heart in their hour of need.

Michael Singer

I have unwittingly and unwillingly become an emotional flashpoint. That's made me an audience for other people's pain.

Chris Rose

He was a real pain in the (expletive). To be honest.

John Shepherd

This is a sad and very tragic moment. Over this stadium hangs heavy emotion, a lot of pain and anger.

Danny Jordaan

She was frightened, of course, but she was more stunned and shocked, and in pain. She saw that blood pouring out of her head and wanted to get out of there.

Michael Block

In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day, The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain - Well, I have dreamed this coast myself.

Robert Hass

Exchange has been so painful. Restoring the database to look for just one message can be like re-creating the universe just to look for a blade of grass.

Arun Taneja

She's very authentic. She's involved in opera and she sees it for what it is, looking at all aspects. Like every art form, there is the pain and the joy and, of course, the peculiarities specific to that art form.

Kathy Hotchner

She had been suffering increasing amounts of pain.

Chris Burns

It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils.

Thomas Stonewall Jackson

Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.

Rene Daumal

We are undergoing a healthy bull market consolidation, with the likelihood there may be more pain to the downside.

Peter Spina

The amount of investment in this really depends on what would be the pain of getting it wrong. More and more legislation is coming worldwide that increases the pain of getting it wrong.

Pete Bramhall

It was very much worth it. Everything you do -- if you get a sack or a safety or a fumble or whatever - all the pain is well worth it.

Antwan Lake

It was an ugly and painful game to watch.

Dwyane Wade

Within five minutes, he was in excruciating pain, drawing his knees up.

Dorothy Jones

It's a little nagging pain, but I feel deep down inside I'm 100%. I'm going to go out and play like it.

Devin Hester

I felt really good. I threw about maybe 30 tosses. It was really light. About 40 feet maybe. It felt real good. Pain free.

Yorvit Torrealba

He is so big you'd think he would be clumsy or a pain, but he is not. This is what he likes to do all day long.

Jackie Cavaco

Point blank, we've got to get out to a good start. None of us want to go through what we did last year. It was painful.

Takeo Spikes

I feel great. It's the hardest day. Twelve and a half hours in pain.

Jordan Metzl

He's fine. It's not an issue. I checked with him and Dave (Labossiere, the trainer). He was in no pain. He was just tight. He had a hard time getting loose.

Jim Hickey

If there's any kind of wrongdoing, it should be reported immediately to authorities and it should be dealt with promptly. That certainly is what we look for as we have come through a learning process that has been constructive and painful.

William Keeler

Now, when I'm dressed, no one can tell which one is real. It was worth the pain to feel complete.

Peggy Jenkins

You never want to see something like that happen. The ball, myself and his glove all came together at the same point. You could tell he was in some pain.

Bubba Crosby

Painful as that was at the time, it was really good for us.

John Callaghan

It's going to be painful and it's going to be choppy but you have to take a longer time frame than day-to-day.

Michael Driscoll

Giving evidence has been painful for them, the government has spent almost $6 million of taxpayers' money, we're not going to spend that again.

Peter Beattie

It's usually about four hours of nausea, vomiting, pain.

Sheralee Nester

If we can keep him pain-free for a long time, he can overcome it.

Shane Jabaar

A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.

Will Ferrell

Our only aim is to see the state out of the current painful and precarious situation.

Omar Abdullah

Right now we're still a small business going through small business pain.

Kurt Robinson

Brace yourself as a wave of earnings estimate revisions and lots of confusion may be headed your way. (In) the near term, the impact may be painful.

David Zion

The things that keep him in power and enable him to inflict the kind of pain he does on his own people and others in the region.

Anthony Zinni

Despite their pain, their mourning, they agreed to give a second life to people in distress. Thanks to them, a door to the future is open to me and to others.

Isabelle Dinoire

I can be your hero baby . . . I can wash away your pain.

Brett Lee

Anytime you go from one extreme to the next, you develop aches and pains. I am pretty broken, but luckily I can take the pain, especially when I remember why I'm doing all of this.

David Goggins

It's short-term pain for long-term gain.

Charles Peabody

He says he's afraid even to move because of the pain. Once he can move better he will undergo treatment.

Takeshi Okada

This has been a painful process for Stan and difficult for Larry and myself. I'm happy with the quality of the numbers.

Tony Quagliano

He's really a hard-nosed, gut-it-out type of kid. When he said he was in some pain, I told him he had to tell his mother.

Chad Powell

We do that every day. No matter how many kids come to practice, we have to do that every day to have a place to practice. It's a pain in the neck and the kids hate it, but that's what we have to do to have a place to practice. It's just the way it is.

Michael Disanto

You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

Ben Stein

What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

Cicero

We love these characters and we love them even when they're unlikable, ... We always see the pain and suffering behind the unlikable behavior.

Alan Ball

I was kind of anxious. Everything felt real good, I felt no pain. It was great to be back out there. It's been a long road.

Stephen Davis

You'll be hearing about pain, pain that this defendant caused, ... Listen to what the victims lost that day, the day the defendant killed.

Michael Garcia

She is able to run, but it's really painful. As a coach, you've got to figure out what you can put a kid through. It's an ethical thing. It could be good, but it could be not as good.

Matt Sparks

A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.

Timothy Leary

One of them, he couldn't sit down, he couldn't stand ... they were screaming in pain.

John House

I just hope our guys don't fall to the pain of losing. That's what it seems like could be ahead, but you've got to fight.

Antwan Peek

Britney went into early labor contractions over the weekend and she was in a lot of discomfort and pain, so I think it was a big relief when she finally had the baby.

Ken Baker

We also recommend you avoid eating very large meals as this can also increase pain.

Melanie Mcgrice

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I went to look in the mirror and I was horrified. I couldn't believe what I saw, especially as I didn't feel any pain. Since that day my life has changed.

Isabelle Dinoire

I know it's a pain in the butt, but I know the more I do it, I'll help my team and myself. It's a work in progress, but every day I feel like I'm getting better.

Cody Haerther

I think I can handle a lot of pain. I think I've demonstrated that.

Clara Hughes

It hurts a little bit more than (Friday). I don't know if it's going to be all that bad. Everybody says that if it's an ACL (injury) you'll be in a lot of pain and I'm really not unless I move it a lot.

Kane Moix

There wasn't a lot of pain, I just heard something pop.

Jesse Foppert

This memorial will not hide from pain. Their stories will be told. We must heal. We must love.

Paul Murdoch Architects

I feel fine now. I'm not feeling any pain. I should be all right to play.

Lauren Herring

This is a clear case of animal cruelty. It is a felony to mutilate and kill a domesticated animal. I just hope this dog did not go through extensive pain or suffering before it was killed.

Julie Curtis

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

Roger Caras

It was a fastball up. The big thing is I threw without pain. I'll go out there again in two days and see what I can do.

Steve Karsay

Whether it's a breast implant or a heart valve or a pain medication, it has to be proven safe.

Diana Zuckerman

They give you a scale of pain and zero being the least and 10, the worst you've had in your life, well, about 30. That's what it feels like.

Lynne Dickey

I thought my back would be hurting forever, and I was nervous that I wouldn't be able to play at all (this year). And if I did play, I thought I would be in pain. I didn't think it would just go away, but it did.

Stephanie Hill

Don't expect a new government to arrive and somebody to flip a switch to make everything look just fine again. We're at a painful threshold that we need to cross in order to see an improvement later. In the short run, the measures will burden private households.

Ralph Solveen

The way doctors are doling out pain medicine, I would tell any mother or father that when it comes to pain medicine, it's not as innocent as it sounds.

Anna Shea

For subjective indicators of pain, obese people indicated similar levels of pain to non-obese people. But when we looked at objective indicators, we found that the obese group had a lower threshold for pain.

Charles Emery

The water was like a foot deep in my cellar. ... It was a real pain in the neck.

Denny Bailey

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

Neil Simon

Nine out of 10 women don't go into surgery to change their breasts because of bad back pain. They do it to get a better job, a new man, a better life. There are often psychological problems at the basis [of surgery] and my fear is that women aren't being challenged enough about them.

Linda Papadopoulos

Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.

Paul Tillich

Clearly there were moments of pain, when he didn't feel as whole as he wanted to, and took medicine.

Gordon Davidson

I meditate a lot, but I am constantly in pain. I'm trying to live with this. You just have to accept it.

Roy Horn

He is in some pain and ready to get it over with.

Megan Antle

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.

Pierre auguste Renoir

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Joseph Campbell

Time cancels young pain.

Euripides

We're so bored with eastern mysticism. We're all coming around to hard-core again. No pain. No gain.

Dominique Day

I'll never get used to living without Mo, but the painful things that surround what happened to him aren't so painful any more-not so raw or so new.

Robin Gibb

What readers will discover in this moving memoir is that no one is immune from the pain of loneliness, abandonment, divorce and all of the losses and challenges we each face in our lives.

Judith Regan

I don't understand. It's a painful world.

Timothy Treadwell

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

Louise Nevelson