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You will forget your misery; you will remember it as waters that have passed away. You will forget your misery; you will remember it as waters that have passed away.

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pain | memory

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What good is it to live a life that brings pains? What good is it to live a life that brings pains?

Aeschylus

pain

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For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life. For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.

Aeschylus

pain | death

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There was a faith-healer of Deal
Who said, "Although pain isn't real,... - MORE There was a faith-healer of Deal
Who said, "Although pain isn't real,
If I sit on a pin
And it punctures my skin,
I dislike what I don't think I feel."

Anonymous

sensation | pain

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Pain itself can be pleasurable accidentally in so far as it is accompanied by wonder, as in stage-plays; or in so far as it recall... - MORE Pain itself can be pleasurable accidentally in so far as it is accompanied by wonder, as in stage-plays; or in so far as it recalls a beloved object to one's memory, and makes one feel one's love for the thing, whose absence gives us pain. Consequently, since love is pleasant, both pain and whatever else results from love, in so far as they remind us of our love, are pleasant.

Thomas Aquinas

pain | pleasures

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The habit-forming pain,
Mismanagement and grief:
We must suffer them all again. The habit-forming pain,
Mismanagement and grief:
We must suffer them all again.

W.H. Auden

pain | grief | suffering

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Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of ... - MORE Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

Honoré De Balzac

men and women | pain

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For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleas... - MORE For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?

Honoré De Balzac

pain | pleasures | human nature

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How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering. How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.

Charles Baudelaire

memory | pain

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Know from this the world's a snare,
How that greatness is but care,... - MORE Know from this the world's a snare,
How that greatness is but care,
How all pleasures are but pain,
And how short they do remain:

Francis Beaumont

suffering | pain

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