Pain Quotes
Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.
There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
That there is much suffering in the world no one disputes. Which is more likely, that pain and evil are the result of an all-powerful and good God, or the product of uncaring natural forces? The presence of much suffering agrees well with the view that all organic beings have been developed through variation and natural selection.
Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
People's affection hurts me but it's a beautiful pain.
When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the suffering one, but on the contrary, come closer, as close as you can to her who suffers, and try to help her.
Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always despair, and always the same.
Make it a point to 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.
Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you.
Sacrifice that causes pain is no sacrifice at all. True sacrifice is joy-giving and uplifting.
Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person's house.
Separation from the wife, disgrace from one's own people, an enemy saved in battle, service to a wicked king, poverty, and a mismanaged assembly: these six kinds of evils, if afflicting a person, burn him even without fire.
The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.
A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.
Joy is fleeting, whereas true happiness and calm can come to us only after intense pain, when we have confronted ourselves in the mirror of our souls and understood the self.
The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles can be developed, if on will only take the pains to trainthe mind to think.
Whose heart the accustom'd sight of death makes hard.
Pain pays the income of each precious thing.
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