- Nov 07, 2020
Pain Quotes
On pain endured, hidden, and turned into art.
This set moves between the physical and the emotional - an athlete accepting that pain eventually comes with the job, and a claim of feeling none of life's pain at all. Related reading: Silence.
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- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.
- Crippling
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- Nov 07, 2020
One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives.
- Opposite
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
- Gain
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spend long days wearing a corset - but no pain, no gain.
- Road
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have a guy like Jermaine, it's a pain in the neck. When we were on the road together in Europe, Jesus, I had to kick the girls off of him. I mean, they throw themselves on the floor and take off their hats.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The joy and the pain for me is about tightroping between being a cynic and being a romantic - the tug between barely believing in anything and hoping for everything.
- Mother-In-Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a little bit of pain in every transition, but we can't let that stop us from making it. If we did, we'd never make any progress at all.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can only exist as far as your mind will allow you to exist, and I think chronic pain will stop time dead in its tracks. You feel like you're the only one, and how unfair it is, and a million different feel-sorry-for-yourself type feelings.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think anyone who suffers from chronic pain can agree with this - you feel this great significance. What I wanted to capture was that significance, and as a matter of fact I think that's one of the lyrics on 'Conflict,' on the split. I touch on the significance, and really it's a selfish thing, in an offbeat way.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always say to people that Zimbabweans are the funniest people in Africa; we even laugh at funerals. And it's true. I mean, there are so many jokes about funerals. There are so many jokes about AIDS. We find ways of coping with pain by laughing at it and by laughing at ourselves.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what to say to that, but I have to agree with Johnny that, yeah, we do touch upon things that most men would rather not admit: That we feel pain, we cry, get sad and sometimes don't deal well with disappointment.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Crime is interesting. It's huge and fascinating, and it's what my business, TV and film, is largely based on. But the realities are tragic, and in crime drama you rarely see the pain of bereavement or any consequences. It's reduced to a chess game.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020