Pain Sayings & Quotes
These pain sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression. - Samuel Johnson
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. - Ayn Rand
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. - Walter Bagehot
Fear is an ague, that forsakes And haunts, by fits, those whom it takes; And they'll opine they feel the pain And blows they felt, to-day, again. - Samuel Butler
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
Death is the king of this world: 'tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet. - George Eliot
Pain is life, the sharper, the more evidence of life. - Charles Lamb
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. - Khalil Gibran
Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught: Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. - Percy Bysshe Shelley
To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety. - Wystan Hugh Auden
And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it. - Pope John Paul II
Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it. - Mark Twain
When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us. - Sydney J. Harris
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. - Sir Winston Churchill
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it. - Michelangelo
Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn. - Robert Browning
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The pain Remembrance gives, when the fix'd dart Is stirred thus in the wound again. - Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. [La., Leniter ex merito quidquid patiare ferendum est, Quae venit indigne poena dolenda venit.] - Ovid
Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself. - Henry Havelock Ellis
You will not grow if you sit in a beautiful flower garden, But you will grow if you are sick, If you are in pain, if you experience losses, And if you do not put your head in the sand, But take the pain as a gift to you with a very, very specific purpose. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross