Stronger than pain quotes (page 17) | Quotes of famous people

“Anger, when it is long in coming, is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept.”

Francis Quarles (1592–1644) English poet

Enchiridion (1640)

“Who is stronger: the one who gives the blow, or the one who endures it?”

Carlos Gershenson (1978) Mexican researcher

Zire Notes (May 2004 - December 2006)

“I hope the days get longer and make this love grow stronger.”

William Fitzsimmons (1978) American musician

Until When We Are Ghosts (2006), Forsake All Others

“The past is the strongest network we have, but the future is a much stronger one.”

Sebastian Bieniek (1975) German artist

01.03.2013, Notes https://www.b1en1ek.com/quotes/
Quotes from the notes

“The older you get the stronger the wind gets—and it’s always in your face.”

Jack Nicklaus (1940) American golfer

International Herald Tribune (Paris, February 28, 1990)

“The real butches are straight … dealing with and controlling men makes you stronger.”

Camille Paglia (1947) American writer

Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994), "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality", p. 81

“The stronger and more powerful a state, the highest and richer the life of its inhabitants.”

Alfredo Rocco (1875–1935) Italian politician and jurist

As quoted in Modern Political Ideologies, Third Edition, Andrew Vincent, West Sussex, UK, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, p. 156

“For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.”

Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece

Book II, ch. 1 http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/discourses.2.two.html
Discourses
Variant: For death or pain is not formidable, but the fear of pain or death.

“Severity is in the eye of the sufferer, it says. Pain is pain.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Infinite Jest (1996)

“Perhaps, but you would not exist without a woman, would you? However little use you may find us, we are cleverer and more determined and more patient than men. Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“To be preyed upon by those stronger than you is bad enough; but to allow your artists and children to be slaughtered and defiled by barely organized foreigners who could be kept out by simple acts of national self-respect is far more shameful.”

Steve Sailer (1958) American journalist and movie critic

Checking Iron Age Barbarian Prejudice http://takimag.com/article/checking_iron_age_barbarian_prejudice_steve_sailer/print#ixzz4A7r77jkG, Taki's Magazine, April 22, 2015

“EVERY STUDENT MUST CHOOSE ONE OF TWO PAINS: THE PAIN OF SELF-DISCIPLINE OR THE PAIN OF REGRET OF NEGLECTED OPPORTUNITIES.”

Ahmed Omaar

“The pain was quite extraordinary. And yet also weirdly welcome and restorative, bringing him news of his aliveness and his caughtness in a story larger than himself.”

Jonathan Franzen book Freedom

Source: Freedom

“I can bear pain myself, he said softly, but I couldna bear yours. That would take more strength than I have.”

Diana Gabaldon book Outlander

Source: Outlander

“True love means that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

“If you don't need it, then
it is useless to be compassionate.
If it's important then
it will probably be followed with pain.
Loneliness that you feel with someone is worse
than one you feel
alone.”

Ayumi Hamasaki (1978) Japanese recording artist, lyricist, model, and actress

Surreal
Lyrics, Duty

“Pain is a coward. He flees when faced by the irresistible power of the will-to-live, which is more strongly rooted in the flesh than the intensest passion is rooted in the spirit.”

Stefan Zweig book Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman

Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman (1927)

“what is the worst pain? To me, it's always the pain that is present.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“Of all pains, the greatest pain
Is to love, and love in vain.”

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne (1666–1735) 1st Baron Lansdowne

The British Enchanters (1705), Act III, scene iii.

“Oh pain! Oh pain! Time eats life.”

Charles Baudelaire book Les Fleurs du mal

Ô douleur! ô douleur! Le Temps mange la vie.
"L’Ennemi" [The Enemy] http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Fleurs_du_mal/1857/L%E2%80%99Ennemi
Variant translations:
Oh pain! Oh pain! Time eats our lives.
Oh pain! Oh pain! Time is eating away my life.
Les fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil) (1857)

Search

Topics

Quotes