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pain real power
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary. Charles Caleb Colton
pain age youth
The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.
pain shadow substance
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
pain shadow may
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow.
pain angel reflection
If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it is the power of relieving distress--if there be a pain which devils might pity man for enduring, it is the death-bed reflection that we have possessed the power of doing good, but that we have abused and perverted it to purposes of ill.
pain memories vices
Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.
pain doors hands
Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.
pain hands years
On the eve of long voyages or an absence of many years, friends who are tenderly attached will seperate with the usual look, the usual pressure of the hand, planning one final interview for the morrow, while each well knows that it is but a poor feint to save the pain of uttering that one word, and the meeting will never be. Should possibilities be worse to bear than certainties? Charles Dickens
pain god-love accepting
Regardless of the source of our pain, we must accept that God knows, God loves, and God is at work. Charles Stanley
numbness tea imagine
And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn't and probably never will. this relationship will probably lead to nothing... this didn't change anything. I imagine her smelling clean, like tea... Bret Easton Ellis
numbness violence calm
Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
numbness emotion default
I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness. Augusten Burroughs
numbness identity world
We don't exist unless there is someone who can see us existing, what we say has no meaning until someone can understand, while to be surrounded by friends is constantly to have our identity confirmed; their knowledge and care for us have the power to pull us from our numbness. In small comments, many of them teasing, they reveal they know our foibles and except them and so, in turn, accept that we have a place in the world. Alain de Botton
numbness feelings world
There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it. Douglas Coupland
numbness absent edges
Absent the edge, we drown in numbness. David Whyte
numbness feelings tides
But what would that be like feeling the tide rise out of the numbness inside
numbness mouths dolls
She began to feel like the plastic doll she had been named after, without even a hole where her mouth was supposed to be. Francesca Lia Block
numbness waiting leaving
The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive. Jeanette Winterson
emptiness found contact
In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other. Carl Sagan
emptiness holocaust left mourning presenting
We are presenting the emptiness and mourning the Holocaust left behind. Judit Molnar
emptiness christ fullness
You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything but Christ. Charles Spurgeon
emptiness love pregnant searching truth within word
Only within the word love truth enters. Within emptiness you become pregnant with what you are searching for.
emptiness empty finish
There is a sense of emptiness when you finish any film because you're empty and you can't give anything more to it anymore. James Marsh
emptiness apex
An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness Alan Dean Foster
emptiness nature none planets precious remotely resemble solar vast
The world, when you look at it, it just can't be random. I mean, it's so different than the vast emptiness that is everything else, and even all the other planets we've seen, at least in our solar system, none of them even remotely resemble the precious life-giving nature of our own planet. Chris Hadfield
emptiness existentialism praying
We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
emptiness grand imagine introvert malady manifold prone solitude spectacle spread turns
We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who, with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within. But let us not imagine there is anything grand about the introvert's unhappiness. Bertrand Russell