“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.” — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
Tag: pain
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“Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.” — Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
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“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.” — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
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“Everyone admits that “the truth hurts” but no one applies this adage to himself — and as soon as it begins to hurt us, we quickly repudiate it and call it a lie.” — Sydney J. Harris, On the Contrary
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“How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.” — Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Thomas Jefferson Smith, (1825-02-21)
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“Most lead lives at worst so painful, at best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principle appetites of the soul.” — Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception
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“Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.” — Jeremy Bentham, Introduction to Principles of Morals and Legislation
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“Missing a train is only painful if you run after it!” — Nassim Taleb, The Black Swan
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“The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness, than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.” — William Hazlitt, Edinburgh Review, (October 1829)
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“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain.” — James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son
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