PAIN QUOTES III
quotations about pain
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
C. S. LEWIS
The Problem of Pain
Pleasure is hard to come by, but pain is everywhere these days, I must learn to subsist on it.
J. M. COETZEE
In the Heart of the Country
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
FERNANDO PESSOA
The Book of Disquiet
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
JOHN KEATS
letter to George and Georgiana Keats, April 1819
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
letter to Mrs. Cosway, October 12, 1786
There are cases in which it is necessary to inflict pain now to avoid greater pain later on, or to gain future pleasure that is worth the current pain.
SUSAN HUBBARD
The Society of S
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other; and he only that knows how to accommodate himself to their periodical returns, and can wisely extract the good from the evil, knows how to live.
LAURENCE STERNE
attributed, Day's Collacon
We have a bitter power who laugh at pain,
Who laugh and laugh -- for tears are shed in vain.
ELSA BARKER
"The Garden of Rose and Rue", The Book of Love
Often pains too long retained increase even to the breaking of the heart; if they could be exhaled we should see that they do not merit the bitterness which they have caused.
FRANCOIS FENELON
attributed, Day's Collacon
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.
MATTHEW HENRY
Commentaries
But for pain, bodies would be broken to pieces on the slightest shock.
ST. PIERRE
attributed, Day's Collacon
As an enemy is made more fierce by our flight, so pain grows proud to see us truckle under it; she will surrender upon much better terms to those who make head against us.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
attributed, Day's Collacon
It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
Inheritance
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
JAMES BALDWIN
The Fire Next Time
Pain is only what you allow it to be.
CASSANDRA CLARE
City of Ashes
Pain for the old was no longer a surprise.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
All the Pretty Horses
Just give me a pain that I'm used to.
DEPECHE MODE
"A Paint That I'm Used To"
Shake hands with Pain, give greeting unto Grief,
Those angels in disguise, and thy glad soul
From height to height, from star to shining star,
Shall climb and claim blest immortality.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
"Immortality"
In medical nomenclature, pains are said to be of various degrees and kinds. A pain may be slight, or it may be agonizing, with all the intervening grades of moderate, severe, violent, intense, excruciating, etc. Various figurative expressions are also used to designate the several varieties of pain, such as pungent, stinging, cutting, lancinating, tearing, rending, splitting, boring, gnawing, etc. Pains are also said to be heavy, dull or obtuse, sharp or acute, aching, throbbing, smarting, pricking, pulsating, burning, etc.
JOEL SHEW
The Hydropathic Family Physician
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
JOSÉ ORTEGA Y GASSET
attributed, Building a Life of Value