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


  • 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


  • Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are. - John Dryden


  • That which is escaped now is pain to come. - Proverb


  • He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. - Samuel Johnson


  • No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. - William Penn


  • 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


  • The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain. - Karl Marx


  • 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


  • All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice. - Joseph De Maistre


  • Even Pain pricks to livelier living. - Amy Lowell


  • The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not. - C S Lewis


  • Pain is life -- the sharper, the more evidence of life. - Charles Lamb


  • There is no coming to consciousness without pain. - Carl Jung



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