“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 Murakami655
Japanese author, novelist 1949Related quotes
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher
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.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
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.”
Axel Munthe (1857–1949) Swedish physician
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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.”
Trent Reznor (1965) American musician
Hurt, from The Downward Spiral (1994).
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“If you wake up feeling no pain, you know you're dead. (Russian expression)”
Andrew Solomon book The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
“When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.”
Louise Penny book A Fatal Grace
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