Quotes on Pain

Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.

Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with light weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

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

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

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

All change is nothing but a decision. All decisions are controlled by what we link to pain and pleasure.

There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious. Seek [within] the undiscovered part of yourself. (emphasis added)

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain.

Entertainment is about taking people away from the regular order of things when there is some chaos and pain and stress.

God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives.

What lasts in the reader's mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the phrase is not affecting the reader, what's it doing there? Make it do its job or cut it without mercy or remorse.