Stronger than pain quotes (page 25) | Quotes of famous people

“They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger?”

Patrick Henry (1736–1799) attorney, planter, politician and Founding Father of the United States

This is also sometimes quoted as "The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty".
1770s, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" (1775)
Context: They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?
Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of Liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

“When you are knocked down you have two choices - stay down or get back up, stronger.”

Alesha Dixon (1978) English singer, dancer, rapper, model and television presenter

Alesha Dixon cited in Exclusive Interview with: Alesha Dixon http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/the-ticket/2009/05/exclusive-interview-with-alesh.html" at blog.mirror.co.uk, 8 May 2009

“Love is the only thing that will save us, independent of any mistakes we may make. Love is always stronger.”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

Aleph (2011)

“Reconstruction, renovation or restoration without destruction is not a necessity. It is not absolute and is always possible. Destruction is necessary to build stronger and better.”

Titon Rahmawan

““She was stronger than the gods who created her?”
“Guys, I didn’t make this stuff up. Don’t ask me to rationalize it. Goblin, you’ve been everywhere. You ever seen a religion that can’t be picked to shreds by any nonbeliever with brains enough to tie his own bootlaces?”

Glen Cook book Bleak Seasons

Source: Bleak Seasons (1996), Chapter 42 (p. 120)

“Here I saw a part of the compassion of our Lady, Saint Mary: for Christ and she were so oned in love that the greatness of her loving was cause of the greatness of her pain. For in this I saw a Substance of Nature’s Love, continued by Grace, that creatures have to Him: which Kind Love was most fully shewed in His sweet Mother, and overpassing; for so much as she loved Him more than all other, her pains passed all other. For ever the higher, the mightier, the sweeter that the love be, the more sorrow it is to the lover to see that body in pain that is loved.
And all His disciples and all His true lovers suffered pains more than their own bodily dying. For I am sure by mine own feeling that the least of them loved Him so far above himself that it passeth all that I can say.”

Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress

The Eighth Revelation, Chapter 18

“The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.”

Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer

Source: The Walk

“Move out or grow in any dimension and pain as well as joy will be your reward. A full life will be full of pain.”

M. Scott Peck (1936–2005) American psychiatrist

Source: The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

“Pain is easy to write. In pain we're all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness?”

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“But he won’t let the pain blot out the humor no more’n he’ll let the humor blot out the pain.”

Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“My ankle hurts from dancing last night so there is pain. But the pain doesn't hurt me for there is no me.”

Ken Wilber (1949) American writer and public speaker

One Taste (2000)

“Our job as entertainers is to ease some pain. So to begin with, you have to know what and where the pain is.”

Cass Elliot (1941–1974) American singer

Statement in Spring of 1972, while participating in the presidential campaign of George McGovern; as quoted at the official Cass Elliot website.
Context: Our job as entertainers is to ease some pain. So to begin with, you have to know what and where the pain is. I've never campaigned before and I wanted to be damn sure before putting my name behind anyone. I wrote to all the campaign officers to find out what they were. My issue is that it's all very well to sit back and complain but when it's your country you have a responsibility.

“The poet is a pretender.
He pretends so completely,
that he even pretends that it is pain
the pain he really feels.”

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.