H. P. Lovecraft Quotes, Religious Quotes, Pain Quotes

Because we remember pain and the menace of death more vividly than pleasure, and because our feelings toward the beneficent aspects of the unknown have from the first been captured and formalised by conventional religious rituals, it has fallen to the lot of the darker and more maleficent side of cosmic mystery to figure chiefly in our popular supernatural folklore.

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Suppressed pain chokes us; in our breasts It surges, adding ever to its strength.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Pain Quotes , Choke Quotes

Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Pain Quotes , Reason Quotes

When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness. I'm trying for that. But I'm also trying for the language. I'm trying to see how it can really sound.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Inspiring Quotes , Pain Quotes

The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.

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Tags : Robert Burns Quotes , Pain Quotes , Disappointment Quotes

It is possible to avoid pain? Yes, but you'll never learn anything. Is it possible to know something without ever having experiencing it? Yes, but it will never truly be part of you.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Pain Quotes

...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.

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I feel like pain is the quickest way to relate to someone because everybody has been through that and everybody has had a heartbreak.

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Tags : Adrian Marcel Quotes , Pain Quotes , Way Quotes

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Pain Quotes , Tragedy Quotes

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Pain Quotes , Kindness Quotes

Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Pain Quotes , Relief Quotes

In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Pain Quotes , Pleasure Quotes

When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the suffering one, but on the contrary, come closer, as close as you can to her who suffers, and try to help her.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Pain Quotes , Suffering Quotes

With patience bear what pains you have deserved, Grieve, if you will, over what's unmerited.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Pain Quotes , Grieving Quotes

The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain.

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A young critic is like a boy with a gun; he fires at every living thing he sees. He thinks only of his own skill, not of the pain he is giving.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Pain Quotes , Gun Quotes

One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Pain Quotes , Fire Quotes

Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Pain Quotes

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Children Quotes , Pain Quotes

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Life Quotes , Pain Quotes