Quotation Explorer - 'Pains'

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. - Charles Caleb Colton
Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away. - James Thomson
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. - Walter Bagehot
Some pains are physical, and some pains are mental, but the one that's both is dental. - Ogden Nash
Old age doth in sharp pains abound;We are belabored by the gout,Our blindness is a dark profound,Our deafness each one laughs about.Then reason's light with falling rayDoth but a trembling flicker cast.Honor to age, ye children pay!Alas! my fifty years are past! - Pierre-Jean de Béranger
They’re scared of the other kind of love. The one which lacks hurt, but pains after awhile. - Dominic Riccitello
If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony. - Fernand Point
I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it. - Robert M. Sapolsky
True pillar of subtle light embrace humanity between dimensions, they are serene consciousness washing the pains of all soul's. - Dave Zebian
He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. - Stephen Crane
Loneliness means when you have no one to celebrate your success with and share your pains. - M.F. Moonzajer
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.
You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid. - Samuel Johnson
It pains me to have all this knowledge and no one to share it with, I’d have to say its number 3 on my list. Of what causes me the most pain. - James Jean-Pierre
Celebrity culture is something that pains me. - Susie Orbach
In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths. - Drew Barrymore
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains. - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Our pains are no excuse for slandering the world. - Anatole France
Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom. - William Jordan
ALL human beings are equal no matter their race,social, political and economic status. No one can eat, excrete, sleep, bear your pains and die your death for you no matter your might. - Oppong Amankwaa
If you never love you never hurtIf you never hurt you've never lived.Love in life and embrace all the pains that come with it. - Sophia Nam
Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it. - John Adams
...no pain ever takes full leave of its person. That pain is greedy and doesn't give ground. That a body remembers what hurts it and how. Old pains get swallowed by new pains. But newer pains always follow suit. - Jill Alexander Essbaum
Deep pains only comes from palpable memory. - Uche Daniel Oluwaseun
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw
Time is a terrible thing because it can erase both joys and pains. - Gosho Aoyama
People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains. - G. K. Chesterton
Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains. - Jeremy Bentham
Keeping the door that leads to your heart ajar is destructive as univited guests would move in and trample on your feelings, leaving you in great pains, but closing it always is a sure way to spot out the destructive and innovative guests. - Michael Bassey Johnson
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive. - James Baldwin
One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Pains are not to be relievedSorrows are not to fade awaya slight change in the visionmay bring a new experience - Rixa White
Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio. des fieri sentio et excrucior.I hate and I love. You may ask, why I do this. I do not know. But I sense that I do and it pains me. - Catullus
Education delivered by a strict councellor, and recieved with great pains would never brighten the future of any student. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Can we just be grateful for beauty & joy, fascination & tolerance, humour & love, nature & grace, and simply release any anger and pains? - Jay Woodman
Until pains are endured, depressions surmounted, mockeries ignored and goliaths conquered, destiny might not be achieved - Ikechukwu Izuakor
So friends, get out of your comfort zone. Don’t be afraid of pain. Confront your pains - Sunday Adelaja
And my worst pains are words I cannot say - Yellowcard
look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you... - Colette
One of the tortures of jealousy is that it can never turn its eyes away from the thing that pains it. - George Eliot
Wiping the tears off another’s eyes is one of the sweetest and coolest gestures ever. It says, I am here if you need to talk or a shoulder to lean on. I may not understand your pains but I would do anything to keep the tears from falling. - Omoakhuana Anthonia
Do you know what pains me the mostabout you? Do you?Having all of thatbottled up insideof your soulall of those dark secretsthat you will notlet escape your heart.Love is the only thing that will heal you. Let me LOVE you. Please. - Zuky rose Leigh
Creation signifies, above all, emotion, and that not in literature or art alone. We all know the concentration and effort implied in scientific discovery. Genius has been defined as an infinite capacity for taking pains. - Henri Bergson
We know that in some way, incomprehensible to us, his suffering satisfied the demands of justice, ransomed penitent souls from the pains and penalties of sin, and made mercy available to those who believe in his holy name. - Bruce R. McConkie
I don't like the darkness but I want to live in it, I don't want to have pains but I always have it, I want to live in good way, happy and very normal life but I just can't. Because it's not that thing which some one gave me and I didn't took from anybody or anything that's just my destiny. - Shayne Azad
Escape.. escape.. escape by God. Never mind hunger pains, discomfort, or any other agony. Let escape become your passion, your one and only obsession until you finally reach home. - Richard Pape
Truly it is the hardest of all trials to see souls so dear in pains we cannot remedy. - Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
One can find so many pains when the rain is falling. - John Steinbeck
Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world. - C.S. Lewis
A man, to be greatly good, must magine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and in many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. - Percy Bysshe Shelley
He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.
Patience, more than the ability to bear pains or endure waiting, is to be calm no matter what happens constantly take action to turn it to positive growth opportunities and have faith to believe that it will all work out in the end while you are waiting. - Roy T. Bennett
Shed the pains of yesterday and seize the plans of tomorrow.-Catherine N. Crumber - Catherine Crumber
The pains we inflict upon ourselves hurt most of all. - Sophocles
If you learn to develop an abundant mentality you will not be envious of others, you will celebrate their successes, you share in their joys and pains; don't see life as a competition but a complimentary. - Bernard Kelvin Clive
The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other.
O what a blessed day that will be when I shall . . . stand on the shore and look back on the raging seas I have safely passed; when I shall review my pains and sorrows, my fears and tears, and possess the glory which was the end of all! - Richard Baxter
We are dealing with God's thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly. - D.A. Carson
Your burdens and pains will only be lightened by living ever so fully. - Bryant McGill
If I had a shiny gun I could have a world of fun Speeding bullets through the brains Of the folks that cause me pains :) - Dorothy Parker
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