Quotes about pain

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

— Aeschylus

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

— Aesop

The greatest evil is physical pain.

— St. Augustine

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

— Bodenstedt

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

— Bill Bradley

Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.

— William C. Bryant

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

— Lord Byron

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

— Julius Caesar

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

— Marcus T. Cicero

The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

— Marcus T. Cicero

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

— Emily Dickinson

Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are.

— John Dryden

Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

— Havelock Ellis

There are no gains without pains.

— Benjamin Franklin

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

— Kahlil Gibran

Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again.

— Bret Harte

The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

— William Hazlitt

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.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Samuel Johnson

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

— Samuel Johnson

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

— Samuel Johnson

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

— Carl Jung

Pain is life -- the sharper, the more evidence of life.

— Charles Lamb

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

— C. S. Lewis

Even Pain pricks to livelier living.

— Amy Lowell

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

— Joseph De Maistre

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.

— Richard Marcinko

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

— Karl Marx

Everything hurts.

— Michelangelo

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.

— Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

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

— Mary Tyler Moore

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

— Toni Morrison

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.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

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

— Cesare Pavese

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

— William Penn

That which is escaped now is pain to come.

— Proverb

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...?

— Adrienne Rich

Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing.

— Anthony Robbins

Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment.

— Will Rogers

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

— Jim Rohn

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.

— Marquis De Sade

If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.

— George Santayana

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

— John Selden

Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.

— Seneca

Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!

— Seneca

One pain is lessened by another's anguish.

— William Shakespeare

Pain pays the income of each precious thing.

— William Shakespeare

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

— John Sterling

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

— Laurence Sterne

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.

— Publilius Syrus

Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.

— Publilius Syrus

Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

— Lord Alfred Tennyson

To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.

— Terence

For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.

— Francis Thompson

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.

— Francis Thompson

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

— Martin Tupper

Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute.

— Mark Twain

Pain with the thousand teeth.

— Sir William Watson

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

— Simone Weil

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

— Simone Weil

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.

— Naomi Wolf

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

— Virginia Woolf

The longer the life the more the offense, the more the offense the more the pain, the more the pain the less defense and the less defense the less the gain.

— Sir T. Wyatt

Hurt's a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don't change facts.

— Stephen King

Where there's anger, there is always pain underneath.

— Eckhart Tolle

You can either focus on the pain, or let the pain focus you.

— A. Brandon Trean

The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

— Ernest Hemingway

If we take life so seriously, we will only live in pain.

— Mak Kazeronnie

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.

— George Eliot