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.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for 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.

People's affection hurts me but it's a beautiful pain.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

Victory breeds hatred. The defeated live in pain. Happily the peaceful live, giving up victory and defeat.

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.

Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person's house.

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.

Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.

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.

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.

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.

Pain pays the income of each precious thing.

Whose heart the accustom'd sight of death makes hard.

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.

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

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