There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
Oscar Wilde

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Jim Rohn

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
Sigmund Freud

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.
Jim Morrison

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
Jim Morrison

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

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
Karl Marx

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
Saint Augustine

The greatest evil is physical pain.
Saint Augustine

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
Emily Dickinson

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
Lance Armstrong

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
Lance Armstrong

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.
Pope John Paul II

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

Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you.
Gilda Radner

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
Lord Byron

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.
Margaret Mead

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

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

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Carl Jung