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

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

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

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

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Joseph Campbell

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

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

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

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

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
Rita Rudner

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
Rita Rudner

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

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

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

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