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Joy always came after pain. -- Guillaume Apollinaire
Joy came always after pain. -- Guillaume Apollinaire
Sweet is pleasure after pain. -- John Dryden
Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,- Sweet is pleasure after pain. -- John Dryden
I rage against Vincent van Gogh for needing to die at 37, after painting for only ten years. -- Jerry Saltz
Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure, Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure- Sweet is pleasure after pain. -- John Dryden
Painter after painter, since the beginning of the century, has tended toward abstraction. First, the Impressionists simplified the landscape in terms of color, and then the Fauves simplified it again by adding distortion, which, for some reason, is a characteristic of our century. -- Marcel Duchamp
In drawing after drawing, pastel after pastel, painting after painting, the contours of Degas's dancing figures become, at a certain point, darkly insistent, tangled and dusky. It may be around an elbow, a heel, an armpit, a calf muscle, the nape of a neck. -- John Berger
After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs. -- Emily Dickinson
You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement. -- Ben Stein
We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
I know the pain of having to deal with terrorism. And that's why, after 9-11, I was one of the first to join the international coalition to fight terrorism. -- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn't a nice time. -- Lena Horne
There's been a lot of speculation about every single girl I'm with and it actually does quite irritate me after a while, more so because it's a complete pain for the girls. -- Prince William
I don't fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach. -- Mary Roach
But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things. -- Richard Krajicek
The marathon always starts after 30K. That's where the problems start. You start without any problems, without any pain. All the pain comes after 30K. Sometimes, it's possible to have pain even in the finger. -- Haile Gebrselassie
I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know. -- Laura Hillenbrand
I learned a lot about pain and suffering during 'Pan Am.' We had to wear very constricting period-correct girdles and bras. After that, I learned to read a script with an eye toward the undergarments. -- Margot Robbie
Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint. -- Garry Trudeau
In the weeks after 9/11, out of the pain and the fear there arose also grace and gratitude, eruptions of intense kindness that occurred everywhere, a sharp resolve to just be better, bigger, to shed the nonsense, rise to the occasion. -- Nancy Gibbs
You want to be burning calories after you work out. The problem becomes for most people - it's not pleasant, it's painful. You have to have the pain tolerance to be able to deal with that, which a lot of people do not. -- Brett Hoebel
It gives a fellow an awful shiver to hear the first shovelful of dirt and gravel rattle down upon the coffin; but after it is covered, it falls gently and makes no sound. The feeling of rest is perfect. There's no more nagging, no more pain! -- William Morris Hunt
I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you're looking so hot. -- Mary J. Blige
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them. -- Hypatia
After spending time with the rescued turkeys at Farm Sanctuary's shelter and seeing how similar they are to my furry companion animals at home, I knew I needed to do everything in my power to protect these friendly and curious birds from the daily pain and suffering they endure on factory farms. -- Ginnifer Goodwin
You have to understand the Newark Riots - a lot of people understand that the pain was the initial explosion of anger and alienation, but after that, the response, sending the National Guard troops - a lot of violence was carried out and perpetrated by those who were allegedly coming here to protect residents. -- Cory Booker
Pain ... after you've lived with it long enough, isn't pain anymore. It's something else. -- Samuel R. Delany
Chasing after a pleasure to ease a pain is like running after a breeze to cool you down. -- Guy Finley
After awhile, your, your cheap talk don't even cause me pain, so let your bullets fly like rain. -- Jimi Hendrix
Immortal life is something to be earned, By slow self-conquest, comradeship with Pain, And patient seeking after higher truths. -- Francis Quarles
After the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here. -- Walt Disney
After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again. -- Gustave Flaubert
Two-thirds of Americans believe that, after a baby's heart is beating and they can feel pain, that they need some protection. -- Barack Obama
Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
I've got life, I've got love, I've got faith & that's enough. We feel sorrow we feel pain, but there's sunshine after rain. -- Jake Miller
...it's not the stories - it's the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories are told ... -- John Geddes
One patient had severe pre-treatment pain resulting from skeletal meta-stases...at 5 weeks after the onset of (laetrile and metabolic) therapy, she claimed complete relief... -- Charles Moertel
My mum and I have an incredible friendship now after a mixture of pain, honesty, unconditional love and a long break from each other -- Pink
As anyone who has been close to someone that has committed suicide knows, there is no other pain like that felt after the incident. -- Peter Green
I don't expect you to understand after you've caused so much pain, but then again-you're not to blame; you're just human-a victim of the insane. -- John Lennon
Be happy about your pain because it makes you who you are. After the pain is over the outcome is becoming a stronger person than before -- Surgeo Bell
It is a strange thing to read a letter after the writer is dead - a bitter-sweet thing, in which pain and comfort are strangely mingled. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
I wasn't very good about the pain. I started screaming for painkillers after the third contraction and didn't stop until my daughter was eating solid food. -- Linda Sunshine
After a while, it all started to fade. No more pain, no more unwanted thoughts and no sound. Just darkness. I welcomed it. I was done. -- Ani San
After four knee surgeries and hundreds of shots injected into my knee weekly to alleviate swelling and pain, my body is begging me to stop the pounding. -- Li Na
I am feeling easy now, and you will well understand that after undergoing pain this ease is opening paradise. Invalids must be excused for being eloquent about themselves. -- George Eliot
We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought." -- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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