Pain and Tears

"There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm."

John Heyl Vincent

Joy and Sadness

Pain and Tears

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors."

Mignon McLaughin "The Neurotic's Notebook"

Health and Alcohol

Pain and Tears

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living."

Toni Cade Bambara

Life and Death

Pain and Tears

Rating: 6.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears."

C. S. Robinson

God and Religion

Oration and Silence

Pain and Tears

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile."

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Joy and Sadness

Pain and Tears

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting."

Isaac Watts

Pain and Tears

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The past can hurt. You can either run from it or learn from it."

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Pain and Tears

Time and Passing

Rating: 2.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The tears shed over the graves are for the words left unsaid and the deeds left undone."

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Pain and Tears

Sorrow and Nostalgia

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Hell is different from purgatory - just a lack of exit doors."

Kazimierz Matan

Pain and Tears

Various

Rating: 8.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Realists suffer more because they realize more reasons for suffering."

Kazimierz Matan

Pain and Tears

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Despair is the shortest road to disaster."

Kazimierz Matan

Defeates and Mistakes

Optimism and Hope

Pain and Tears

Rating: 9.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Life gives you a kick and then with a smile, asks: Is there too much it hurt?"

Kazimierz Matan

Life and Death

Pain and Tears

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it."

Mason Cooley "City Aphorisms"

Pain and Tears

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Everything hurts - and what doesn't, doesn't work."

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Pain and Tears

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art."

Odilon Redon

Art and Culture

Pain and Tears

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love."

Mason Cooley "City Aphorisms"

Love

Pain and Tears

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Who hears the fishes when they cry?"

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Nature and Animals

Pain and Tears

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives."

Albert Einstein

Life and Death

Pain and Tears

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings."

William Hazlitt "Complete Works"

Egoism

Pain and Tears

Rating: 7.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader."

Robert Lee Frost "Preface to Collected Poems"

Art and Culture

Pain and Tears

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not."

Clarence Irving Lewis "That Hideous Strength"

Friendship and Hostility

Joy and Sadness

Pain and Tears

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Sometimes a man has to go through hell to turn to an angel."

Agnieszka Lisak

Human

Pain and Tears

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 6)

"It requires more courage to suffer than to die."

Napoleon Bonaparte

Courage and Fear

Life and Death

Pain and Tears

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."

Winston Churchill

Pain and Tears

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them."

Henry David Thoreau

Dreams and Desires

Life and Death

Pain and Tears

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you."

Thomas a Kempis "The Imitation of Christ"

God and Religion

Pain and Tears

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds."

Karl Kraus "Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths"

Pain and Tears

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones."

Jacques Roumain

Pain and Tears

Various

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it."

Jane Wagner

Pain and Tears

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain."

Tertullian "De patientia"

Pain and Tears

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown."

William Penn "No Cross, No Crown"

Authority, Government

Pain and Tears

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt."

Jose Ortega y Gasset "In Search of Goethe from Within"

Pain and Tears

Work and Laziness

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood."

Eric Ambler "A Coffin for Dimitrios"

Pain and Tears

Richness and Money

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh."

Minna Antrim "Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions"

Life and Death

Pain and Tears

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent."

Francis Picabia "Who Knows: Poems and Aphorisms"

Happiness

Pain and Tears

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery."

Francis Picabia

Human

Pain and Tears

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another."

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) "Epistolae ex Ponto"

Health and Alcohol

Pain and Tears

Rating: 1.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The main motive for "nonattachment" is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work."

George Orwell "Shooting an Elephant"

Love

Pain and Tears

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea."

Walter Bagehot "Physics and Politics"

Human

Pain and Tears

Rating: 6.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry."

Edith Hamilton "The Greek Way"

Art and Culture

Pain and Tears

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears."

Honoré De Balzac

Family and Loneliness

Pain and Tears

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed."

Natalie Clifford Barney

Pain and Tears

Time and Passing

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"When the book comes out it may hurt you - but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself."

James Baldwin "A Dialogue"

Art and Culture

Pain and Tears

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another..."

Charles Monroe Schulz "Charlie Brown"

Life and Death

Pain and Tears

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love."

Sophocles

Love

Pain and Tears

Rating: 6.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"All the [hours] wound you, the last one kills."

Latin Proverbs (inscription on clocks)

Inscriptions etc.

Pain and Tears

Time and Passing

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Revenge is a confession of pain."

Latin Proverbs

Anger

Pain and Tears

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full."

Marcel Proust

Health and Alcohol

Pain and Tears

Rating: 2.50 (Number of Voters: 2)