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- 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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe L. Ron Hubbard resolved the human mind, and in resolving it he has also resolved human pain - that's what I really think has happened here.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Suffering is a kind of ecstasy in a way. Having pain all the time makes me terribly, terribly grateful for every moment I've got.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.
- Promotion
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- Nov 07, 2020
All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all want to feel spiritually vigorous, and we hurt when we don't. This pain is intensified for people who lead church ministries.
- Means
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pain of retirement means loss.
- Isolation
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be so ignorant again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again. Losing innocence. Remembering heaven. That was the essence of hell.
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- Nov 07, 2020