“In order to stay clear of pain, we must know and know why we feel best while having pain.”

— Eugene J. Martin

Annotated Drawings by Eugene J. Martin: 1977-1978

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update Sept. 14, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "In order to stay clear of pain, we must know and know why we feel best while having pain." by Eugene J. Martin?

Eugene J. Martin 41

American artist 1938–2005

Charles Caleb Colton (1777–1832) British priest and writer

Source: Lacon (1820) Vol. I; CCCCXXVII (7th Edition, published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, in 1821)

“I don’t know why we insist on pain when pain is so often easy to eliminate. It’s funny the ways we try to punish ourselves when we feel we’ve committed some crime.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: Stay

“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 (1777–1832) British priest and writer

Vol. I; CCCCXXVII (7th Edition, published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, in 1821)
Lacon
Context: 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.

“It is a sweet, albeit most painful, feeling
To know we are regretted.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist

The Improvisatrice (1824)

“There are never words for the strongest of our feelings. There is just the pain that we cannot share. Pain we must all feel alone.”

James Frey book The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

Source: The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

“Alas! by some degree of woe
We every bliss must gain;
The heart can ne'er a transport know
That never feels a pain.”

George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton (1709–1773) British politician

Song; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.”

Sean Covey (1964) author; business executive

“One of the pleasures of writing novels is that my characters usually do something. But in real life we often stay locked in a situation that we know is painful or wrong.”

John Twelve Hawks American writer

Against Authority: Freedom and the Rise of Surveillance States (2014)

“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1960s, Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
Source: Letter from the Birmingham Jail
Context: We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct action campaign that was "well timed" in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This "Wait" has almost always meant "Never." We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."

“We must all educate ourselves to the reality of the horrors taking place. Doctors today know that unborn children can feel a touch within the womb and that they respond to pain.”

Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)

1980s, First term of office (1981–1985), Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation (1983)

“In order to stay clear of pain, we must know and know why we feel best while having pain.”

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Eugene J. Martin 41

Related quotes

Related topics