Mine is from an early 2000s film called Vanilla Sky.

“The sweet is never as sweet without the sour.”

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    1 year ago

    It’s not a movie but it makes me think of this quote from Murakami’s What I Talk About When I Talk About Running:

    Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore.’ The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.

    I feel this may be the sentiment behind, “Pain don’t hurt.”

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      Indeed it is. The line comes from Patrick Swayze’s head bouncer character “Dalton” in Road House. He is supposed to be a sort of ascetic warrior philosopher. He eschews convenience, lives in a converted barn without air conditioning, etc. because for him physical suffering is of little importance.