You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

Jim Morrison

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God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

John Lennon

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People's affection hurts me but it's a beautiful pain.

Charlie Chaplin

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The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? Oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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