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“Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits -- which was exactly where they were supposed to be.”

“Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.”

“I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage”

“Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.”

“There can be raw pain and bleeding where so many thousands see the inevitable ups and downs of only a game.”

“There's a hope for every woe,
And a balm for every pain,
But the first joys of our heart
Come never back again!”

“If ye never had a sick night and a pained soul for sin, ye have not yet lighted upon Christ.”

“The minute I'm in a little pain… your rough, tough, scary bad boy image totally falls apart.”

“Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again you must learn to trust again.”

“… it is true, even people with painful childhoods… grow up to be more interesting people. So, there's always a positive to a negative.”

“Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and least expensive manipulation of all.”

“Who, doomed to go in company with Pain,
And Fear, and Bloodshed, miserable train!
Turns his necessity to glorious gain.”

“If neither love nor pain
Will ever touch thy heart,
Then only God's in thee,
And then in God thou art”

“The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and … each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.”

“Harry Dresden: Hers was a beauty so pure that it was nearly painful to behold--Athena heading out on a Friday night.”

“I shall be called discontented. I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.”

“All our emotional scars and mental stress come from the pain of being fully accepted and cherished in ourselves.”

“Evil – to exploit the knowledge of your own vulnerability by turning it on others' vulnerability in order to bring more pain into the world.”

“If I could I would kiss his wrists.
If I had half the courage to face his pain.”