Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.

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There are enough real enemies and threats in the world without having to invent imaginary ones.
CHRISTINA ENGELA There is no right and wrong, and precepts are for fools. Every thing is just as it is! And we must e...
RU FREEMAN

It is the Law that any difficulties that can come to you at any time, no matter what they are, must ...
EMMET FOX If we have to drag them to school, to show them what the value of education is, there is no way we c...
BILL SPEARS

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not s...
ANNA SEWELL

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not...
ANNA SEWELL There are some communities that feel you shouldn't give them the publicity, because it's just going ...
MARK POWERS If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.
FRANCESCA ANNIS Picture it in your mind first to get it. If the picture is far you will have to travel far. If close...
EPHDAN Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains withou...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. We need to devise a way to effectively inspect these trash shipments and if there is no way to inspe...
CARL LEVIN Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Look, we have that problem solved, because there are only three of them in the Olympics. We got 187 ...
ALAN CULPEPPER To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and th...
E. F. BENSON

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
JOHN RUSKIN We aim to go forward ... all the way. We came for three points because we need them to help us get t...
DENNIS DUNCAN If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... I think any time we can recognize children for doing what we want them to do, there can be no harm i...
CAROL THOMAS

These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

We let them help because they needed it, not us. We didn't let them help us because we needed it, we...
JOHN COREY WHALEY

We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that witho...
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA They're over there in harm's way, for right or wrong, on behalf of us. We asked them to go. And I fe...
CHRIS ISAAK

If we're honest, most of us are doing okay.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to t...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to th...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON I don't think that most of them are doing this just for publicity, but I think they're doing it beca...
CLEVELAND KENT EVANS I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of t...
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
HANNAH ARENDT

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
ARISTOTLE

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with the...
ANTHONY STORR

At some point, we have each said through our tears, “I’m suffering for a love that’s not worth...
PAULO COELHO

I'm sure they're saddened by me, and I get frustrated with them. But I love them, and at the...
BRAD PITT If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but ...
AUGUSTUS

I feel like I'm nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them.
BINDI IRWIN The Poseidon system warns lifeguards in real time that something suspicious is happening, and notifi...
BRIAN EVANS

Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've be...
SENECA It is a lot of money. I hope we do a better job at educating the kids and getting them in the real w...
BRUCE HINCHEY It is New Orleans: We want them to know that the very next day there is help for them available and ...
CHAR SCHROEDER To weigh them, you need at least three people at the weigh station, but without weighing them we can...
BRIAN MASTENBROOK I'm just real proud of my girls. They've been stepping up and doing the things that we need them to ...
SARAH MESUCH We definitely feel the constitution for the state of Alabama should be rewritten. We also feel there...
DREW JOHNSON

The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN To Achieve your greatest achievements ... do things without any need for Reward, Recognition or Grat...
LORRIN L. LEE There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literatu...
STEPHEN STILLS We are looking for people saving the architectural legacy of the Coast, and by that we mean heroic e...
LOLLY BARNES Real decisions are not something we can pick up without taking time to hunt for them.
JASON E. ROYLE There are some pains that run too deep for anything to absolve them. The best we can do is pick up t...
SHERRILYN KENYON The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character wi...
FRANZ LISZT We have world-class facilities in Davis, ... We have a good place for our kids to go to school. We n...
BRUCE WILLIAMS The blessing is that my kids have a lot of strong men and strong marriages around them, so I feel li...
TAYA KYLE The entire event was to show students the consciences of them choosing to drink and drive. We wanted...
MARGIE COBURN They're the most vulnerable patients we have out there except for the infant. We have some excellent...
DR. EDWARD LANGSTON Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, ...
MARQUIS DE SADE Right now people are scared because they don't feel empowered. Most of them don't watch television, ...
GLORIA HERNANDEZ We sent them a card and we all really feel for them.
DAN SKILLMAN Our bodies are like ships on the ocean of life. Once we cross the ocean we no longer need our ships ...
JIM GENOVESE In the educational domain, searching for depth, value, benefit and mark are matters that need to be ...
MARYAM ABDULLAH ALNAYMI No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes wit...
GEORGE SAND Most of our fears are borrowed. Since that’s the case, we should get busy returning them.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment
CLARE SHORT There is no real light but just small sparks of happiness we should photograph to contain. But if we...
CRISTIANE SERRUYA It's a real juggle for us. We need the guys to play together, to get them exposure, but we also want...
GLEN ELLA We remove all illegal sign encroachments as we are made aware of them. That also includes signs post...
NANCY WOOD You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.
DAVID LEVITHAN The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the pe...
MAIMONIDES Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason -...
BILL JAMES "The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all haz...
SAM ADAMS "The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all haz...
SAM ADAMS In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN The thing about politicians in Britain is that they are out there, you can lobby them, get close to ...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL I try to use the landline whenever I can. We cannot do without the mobile phones, but we don't n...
JUHI CHAWLA If the only reason people are coming in and doing anything in your office is because you're givi...
DAN PINK In Bollywood, we are told exactly what to do and how to do it and not to counter things by saying th...
ALI FAZAL Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough ...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE They gave me their names, asking me to forgive them and to pray for them. I would later learn how im...
VASSULA RYDEN I see stunning men walking on the street everyday. Some walk shirtless because it's hot and they fee...
MIYA YAMANOUCHI The one thing that TV is bad at doing is preaching. There are two extremes, you either turn the peop...
MIKE ROWE Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we...
JANET NAPOLITANO We are beating ourselves. We're giving them too much, giving them too many opportunities. We need to...
MARGO JONKER ‎‎"When we look for flaws in others and point them out, we are doing them injustices." ~Tom Bake...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to...
DANIEL HANNAN Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to...
DANIEL HANNAN It has always been fairly safe to talk about God; it is when we start to talk about men that the tro...
WILLIAM BARCLAY Without question ... we are reviewing everything that they did with that time, and we need to learn ...
GUSTAVO TORRES There was no real decline in popularity for the Flying Turns. In fact, they were some of the most po...
JOE MUSCATO I support GMOs. And we should label them. We should label them because that is the very best thing w...
RAMEZ NAAM We know we can beat them. We know we should be better than them. But I guess there is a little bit o...
DUSTIN RISSEEUW The river was beautiful and wise. There were the two of them being happy in a new way. For here, the...
DAVID PAUL KIRKPATRICK No doubt, they are the best team we've faced all year long. They are a team without any real weaknes...
DERACKK CURTIS We certainly consider every request. Without White Sox fans, there would be no White Sox world serie...
KATIE KIRBY What we did is important because we proved that virtually all of the wireless networks used by compa...
AVI RUBIN Monmouth is a really good team, and we better be prepared for them. They will come in here hungry be...
DEREK COLEMAN We should recognize the reality that just because something is good is not sufficient reason for doi...
DALLIN H. OAKS There are no gains without pains.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those w...
GEORGE SAVILE Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those w...
GEORGE SAVILE We fluff them and fold them and nudge them and enhance them and bind them and break them and embelli...
HEATHER CHOATE DAVIS We're under extraordinary financial constraints, and we can't continue doing things the way we've be...
RANDY HANNAN We're doing whatever we can to make revenue. Customers are appreciating them because they're buying ...
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EMILE M. CIORAN What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
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EMILE M. CIORAN It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
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EMILE M. CIORAN You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: i...
EMILE M. CIORAN Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
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EMILE M. CIORAN In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.
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EMILE M. CIORAN In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.
EMILE M. CIORAN For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
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EMILE M. CIORAN Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
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EMILE M. CIORAN The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.
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EMILE M. CIORAN Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.
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EMILE M. CIORAN When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.
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EMILE M. CIORAN Sperm is a bandit in its pure state.
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EMILE M. CIORAN Basis of society: anonymous sweat.
EMILE M. CIORAN What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.
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EMILE M. CIORAN One hardly saves a world without ruling it.
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EMILE M. CIORAN Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.
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E. M. CIORAN Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
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E. M. CIORAN Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
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E. M. CIORAN To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.
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E. M. CIORAN Sperm is a bandit in its pure state.
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EMIL M. CIORAN We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage.
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EMIL M. CIORAN As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.
EMIL M. CIORAN Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal ther...
E. M. CIORAN It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
EMIL M. CIORAN Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
E. M. CIORAN Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
EMIL M. CIORAN There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.
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EMIL M. CIORAN By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.
EMIL M. CIORAN Our only choice is between irrespirable truths and salutary frauds.
EMIL M. CIORAN The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.
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EMIL M. CIORAN Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.
EMIL M. CIORAN The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.
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EMIL M. CIORAN If you try to convert someone, it will never be to
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EMIL M. CIORAN We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.
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EMIL M. CIORAN I have no ideas, only obsessions. Anybody can have ideas. Ideas have never caused anybody's downfall...
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EMIL M. CIORAN My soul is chaos, how can it be at all? There is everything in me: search and you will find out. I a...
EMIL M. CIORAN Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference an...
EMIL M. CIORAN Les mystiques et leurs « œuvres complètes ». Quand on s'adresse à Dieu, et à Dieu seul, co...
EMIL M. CIORAN A book is a suicide postponed.
EMIL M. CIORAN True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire w...
EMIL M. CIORAN Dans les époques de stérilité, on devrait hiberner, dormir jour et nuit pour conserver ses forces...
EMIL M. CIORAN Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.
EMIL M. CIORAN By capitulating to life, this world has betrayed nothingness. . . . I resign from movement, and from...
EMIL M. CIORAN Since it is difficult to approve the reasons people invoke, each time we leave one of our 'fellow me...
EMIL M. CIORAN Niciodată nu te voi trăda de tot, deşi te-am trădat şi te voi trăda la fiecare pas; Când te-a...
EMIL M. CIORAN Sînt unii oameni atît de prosti, ca de le-ar aparea vreo idee la suprafata creierului ea s-ar sinu...
EMIL M. CIORAN In numele si sub teroarea ei (plictiselii, n.m.) parasesc oamenii caminul si moartea agreabila legat...
EMIL M. CIORAN S'il n'avait gardé une dernière illusion, je me réclamerais volontiers d'Omar Khayyam, de ses tri...
EMIL M. CIORAN To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without man...
EMIL M. CIORAN Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, havin...
EMIL M. CIORAN Só é saudável em nós aquilo pelo que não somos especificamente nós mesmos: são nossas aversõ...
EMIL M. CIORAN Of all that was attempted this side of nothingness, is anything more pathetic than this world, excep...
EMIL M. CIORAN My soul is chaos, how can it be at all? There is everything in me: search and you will find out ... ...
EMIL M. CIORAN If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing it. EMIL M. CIORAN Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist—a demo...
EMIL M. CIORAN Eu nu am idei ci obsesii. Idei poate avea oricine. Nimeni nu s-a prăbușit din cauza ideilor.
EMIL M. CIORAN أشعر أنني منفصل تماما عن كل البلدان وعن كل المجموعات. أ�...
EMIL M. CIORAN The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live-moreover, the only one.
EMIL M. CIORAN

Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.

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Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.

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