"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 on sympathy   

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

Sterne, Laurence on anecdotes   

"Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional."

Casey, M Kathleen on adversity
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"Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind."

Jefferson, Thomas on happiness
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"He who begins and does not finish loves their pains."

Proverb on procrastination
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"In pain is a new time born."

Chamisso, Adelbert Von on change
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"A young man of pleasure is a man of pains."

Young on pleasure   

"Suspicion is most often useless pain."

Johnson, Samuel on suspicion   

"There are no gains without pains."

Franklin, Benjamin on pain
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"Pain forces even the innocent to lie."

Syrus, Publilius on lies and lying   

"Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain."

Maistre, Joseph De on necessity   

"Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?"

Aeschylus on pain
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"Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are."

Dryden, John on pain
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"It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all."

Conrad, Joseph on emotions
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"If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain."

Byron, Lord on writers and writing
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"The angel of the Family is Woman. Mother, wife, or sister, Woman is the caress of life, the soothing sweetness of affection shed over its toils, a reflection for the individual of the loving providence which watches over Humanity. In her there is treasure enough of consoling tenderness to allay every pain. Moreover for every one of us she is the initiator of the future. The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life; and love and faith create a desire for perfection and the power of reaching towards it step by step; create the future, in short, of which the living symbol is the child, link between us and the generations to come. Through her the Family, with its divine mystery of reproduction, points to Eternity."

Mazzini, Giuseppe on women
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"It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) --to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart. When I look back on the pain of sex, the love like a wild fox so ready to bite, the antagonism that sits like a twin beside love, and contrast it with affection, so deeply unrepeatable, of two people who have lived a life together (and of whom one must die) it's the affection I find richer. It's that I would have again. Not all those doubtful rainbow colors."

Bagnold, Enid on affection
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"There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer --committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear."

Eliot, George on pain
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"The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance."

James, William on happiness   

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."

Nouwen, Henri on honesty
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"I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me."

Swindoll, Charles on attitude
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"Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by."

Ovid on perseverance
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"Time heals old pain, while it creates new ones."

Proverb, Hebrew on grief
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"God is a concept by which we measure our pain."

Lennon, John on god
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"The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain."

Warner, Marina on pleasure   

"No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God... and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven."

Whitney, Orson F. on education   

"Pain with the thousand teeth."

Watson, Sir William on pain
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"If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved."

Santayana, George on pain
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"Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment."

Rogers, Will on pain
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"No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown."

Penn, William on pain
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"When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same."

Morrison, Toni on pain
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"Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic."

Pavese, Cesare on pain
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"This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life."

Muggeridge, Malcolm on pain   

"Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you."

Moore, Mary Tyler on pain
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"Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over."

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on pain   

"Everything hurts."

Michelangelo on pain
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"There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience."

Sade, Marquis De on pain
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"Pain pays the income of each precious thing."

Shakespeare, William on pain
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"Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge."

Weil, Simone on pain
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"There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too."

Weil, Simone on pain
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