"There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathize with the color, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better."

Wilde, Oscar | Sympathy | 1 bookmarks

"The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it."

Sterne, Laurence | Anecdotes | 1 bookmarks

"Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional."

Casey, M Kathleen | Adversity | 2 bookmarks

"Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind."

Jefferson, Thomas | Happiness | 3 bookmarks

"He who begins and does not finish loves their pains."

Proverb | Procrastination | 2 bookmarks

"In pain is a new time born."

Chamisso, Adelbert Von | Change | 2 bookmarks

"A young man of pleasure is a man of pains."

Young | Pleasure | 1 bookmarks

"Suspicion is most often useless pain."

Johnson, Samuel | Suspicion | 1 bookmarks

"There are no gains without pains."

Franklin, Benjamin | Pain | 7 bookmarks

"Pain forces even the innocent to lie."

Syrus, Publilius | Lies and Lying | 1 bookmarks