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“Love is the sweetest pain inside.”

Tarkan (1972) Turkish singer

If Only You Knew
Come Closer (2006)

“6360. Without Pains,
No Gains.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“The pain passes but the beauty remains.”

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) French painter and sculptor

As quoted in: Instituto Nacional de Previsión (Spain) (1974). 6.o Congreso Internacional de Medicina Fisica: 2-6 julio 1974. p. 424
Renoir replied to Matisse, who had asked him why he persisted in painting at the expense of such torture.
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“I feel your pain.”

Bill Clinton (1946) 42nd President of the United States

Response to AIDS activist Bob Rafsky at the Laura Belle nightclub in Manhattan (March 27, 1992)
1990s

“Time cancels young pain.”

Euripidés Alcestis

Source: Alcestis (438 BC), l. 1085

“Pain is short, and joy is eternal.”

Friedrich Schiller The Maid of Orleans

The Maid of Orleans (1801), last line

“Learning's always a painful process.”

Luc Besson (1959) French film director, writer, and producer

Lucy (2014)

“Sitting still is a pain in the ass.”

Noah Levine (1971) American Buddhist teacher

Against the Stream (2007)

“You've chosen the path of pain!”

Alex Jones (1974) American radio host, author, conspiracy theorist and filmmaker

Alex Jones The Path of Pain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZJAk01J3L0 (The Alex Jones Show, Mar 18 2020) <br class="br">2020

“I forgive the pain and the disappointments,”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

Aleph (2011)

“In relationship there are always two types of person: one weaker and the other stronger one. It's never easier to live being as weaker one!”

Chetan Bhagat (1974) Indian author, born 1974

Source: Revolution 2020: Love, Corruption, Ambition

“Love is like liquor, the drunker and more impotent you are, the stronger and smarter you think yourself and the surer you are of your rights.”

Louis-ferdinand Céline book Journey to the End of the Night

Source: Journey to the End of the Night

“A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“I sometimes think the stronger you feel about someone, the harder it is to picture their face when you are away from them.”

Ann Brashares book Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

Source: Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: The Witch Of Portobello

“The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light there is shed upon them.”

Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter

Preface to Corruption and Intolerance.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller cities to subjection.”

Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War

Book I, 1.8-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I

“Nor were the poor negroes forgotten. Not a Quaker in Philadelphia, or Mr. Jefferson, of Virginia, ever asserted the rights of negroes in stronger terms.”

John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States

Young as I was, and ignorant as I was, I shuddered at the doctrine he taught; and I have all my lifetime shuddered, and still shudder, at the consequences that may be drawn from such premises. Shall we say, that the rights of masters and servants clash, and can be decided only by force? I adore the idea of gradual abolitions! But who shall decide how fast or how slowly these abolitions shall be made?
1810s, Letter to William Tudor (1818)

“Our passions are like convulsion-fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.”

Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet

Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)

“Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.”

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

Source: 1960s, Strength to Love (1963), Ch. 1 : A tough mind and a tender heart
Context: The tough mind is sharp and penetrating, breaking through the crust of legends and myths and sifting the true from the false. The tough-minded individual is astute and discerning. He has a strong austere quality that makes for firmness of purpose and solidness of commitment.
Who doubts that this toughness is one of man's greatest needs? Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.