Pain Quotes

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou

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

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Kahlil Gibran

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
Epictetus

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

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Bob Marley

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
William Faulkner

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
Lance Armstrong

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
Charlie Chaplin

The greatest evil is physical pain.
Saint Augustine

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
Alan Watts

Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.
Victor Hugo

You learned the concept ‘pain’ when you learned language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
Michelangelo

Pain is never permanent.
Saint Teresa of Avila

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
Marquis de Sade

Pain’s not bad, it’s good. It teaches you things. I understand that.
Charles Manson

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
Charles Dickens

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
Aeschylus

The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.
Anne Rice

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

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.
Henry Rollins

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Walter Bagehot

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
Pearl S. Buck

I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.
Sting

The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.
Herodotus

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
Samuel Johnson

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

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
Tertullian

The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.
Emile M. Cioran

Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child.
Pat Benatar

We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.
James Taylor

It’s an art to live with pain… mix the light into gray.
Eddie Vedder

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

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

There are only three events in a man’s life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
Jean de la Bruyere

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
R. D. Laing

Anger is a wound gone mad.
Vanna Bonta

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

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
John Henry Newman

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
Max Eastman

Do not be afraid that joy will make the pain worse; it is needed like the air we breathe.
Goran Persson

Humor does not diminish the pain – it makes the space around it get bigger.
Allen Klein

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
Coco Chanel

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