Pain Quotes

"Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it."
-Mark Twain

"Of all the creatures that were made, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood he is the only one--the solitary one--that possesses malice. That is the basest of all instincts, passions, vices--the most hateful. He is the only creature that has pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. Also--in all the list he is the only creature that has a nasty mind."
-Mark Twain

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

"Pain is never permanent."
-Saint Teresa Of Avila

"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

"Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to...Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain."
-Whitey Ford

"Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering."
-Paulo Coelho

"Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us."
-Charles Kingsley

"In the country of pain we are each alone."
-May Sarton

"The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it."
-Walter Bagehot

"Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we're wired that way. Because without it, I don't know; maybe we just wouldn't feel real. What's that saying? Why do I keep hitting myself with a hammer? Because it feels so good when I stop."
-Meredith Grey

"You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt."
-Gerald Brenan

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

"Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart."
-Peter De Vries

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

"We are all broken and wounded in this world. Some choose to grow strong at the broken places."
-Harold J. Duarte bernhardt

"I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so it festers and turns into pus - a pustule of emotion that explodes into a festering cesspool of depression."
-Nicolas Cage

"Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains."
-Democritus

"The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good."
-Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

"Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain."
-Saint Bartholomew

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

"There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain."
-Mark Twain

"Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain."
-Aristotle

"We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation."
-George Bernard Shaw

"He who learns must suffer. 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

"There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain."
-Aeschylus