- Me
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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
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were country songs I connected to when there was pain, when I saw things my family were going through. It was my way of acknowledging I wasn't OK: music tapped on the door; I could work out these emotions by singing.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel my knees changing - like, why do I have this pain when I'm running on the treadmill? What's going on with my lower back when I wake up in the morning? I just feel changes. And I'm definitely fearful in a very vain manner about my body ageing.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't want to see any animal in pain, no matter what.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a goodness about Yao that is unique, that never left him through all the pain and injuries and disappointments that accompanied his unprecedented accomplishments and successes.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like beautiful writing, pain, unexpected humor, and the message that, at the last second, people are going to be kind to each other. It almost doesn't matter what the genre is.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's life, so you're a constant evolution of tragedies and achievements and ups and downs. You can probably get a little bit more immune to things, but whatever is the most amount of pain you feel at any given moment feels like the most amount of pain you'll ever feel.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's always gonna be some pain, I think, because my body's going to be like, 'Where are your lower legs?'
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020