“Still, being able to feel pain was good, he thought. It's when you can't even feel pain anymore that you're in real trouble.”
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
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Haruki Murakami 655
Japanese author, novelist 1949Related quotes

O poeta é um fingidor.
Finge tão completamente
Que chega a fingir que é dor
A dor que deveras sente.
"Autopsicografia" ["Autopsychography"], in Presença, No. 36 (November 1932)
Fernando Pessoa's most translated poem.
Richard Zenith's translation:
The poet is a faker
Who's so good at his act
He even fakes the pain
Of pain he feels in fact.

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
Variant: One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
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“I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel.
I focus on the pain,
the only thing that's real.”
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“If you wake up feeling no pain, you know you're dead. (Russian expression)”
Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression