Quotes about pain

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

Aeschylus on pain
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"The injuries we do and the injuries we suffer are seldom weighed on the same scales."

Aesop on pain
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"The greatest evil is physical pain."

Augustine, St. on pain
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"The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain."

Beecher, Henry Ward on pain   

"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be nor more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain. [Revelation]"

Bible on pain
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"To banish cares, scare away sorrow and soothe pain is the business of the poet and singer."

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"There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is."

Bradley, Bill on pain
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"Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign."

Bryant, William C. on pain
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"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain."

Byron, Lord on pain
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"It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience."

Caesar, Julius on pain
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"All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief."

Cicero, Marcus T. on pain
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"The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated."

Cicero, Marcus T. on pain
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"After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs."

Dickinson, Emily 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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"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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"Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself."

Ellis, Havelock on pain
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"There are no gains without pains."

Franklin, Benjamin on pain
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"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."

Gibran, Kahlil on pain
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"Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again."

Harte, Bret on pain
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"The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings."

Hazlitt, William on pain
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"The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset."

Jefferson, Thomas on pain
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"Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain."

Johnson, Samuel on pain
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"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man."

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"Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression."

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"There is no coming to consciousness without pain."

Jung, Carl on pain
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"Pain is life -- the sharper, the more evidence of life."

Lamb, Charles on pain
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"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not."

Lewis, C. S. on pain
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"Even Pain pricks to livelier living."

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"All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice."

Maistre, Joseph De on pain   

"Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits -- which was exactly where they were supposed to be."

Marcinko, Richard on pain
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"The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain."

Marx, Karl on pain
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"Everything hurts."

Michelangelo 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   

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

Morrison, Toni 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   

"Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic."

Pavese, Cesare 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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"That which is escaped now is pain to come."

Proverb on pain   

"They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?"

Rich, Adrienne on pain