I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
James A. Baldwin

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
Charlie Chaplin

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from over mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.
Angelina Jolie

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
George Bernard Shaw

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

Before we make love my husband takes a pain killer.
Joan Rivers

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

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

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
Arthur Schopenhauer

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
Arthur Schopenhauer

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Arthur Schopenhauer

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 worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.
Herodotus

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
Marquis de Sade

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
Marquis de Sade

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
Aeschylus

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
Aeschylus

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?
Aeschylus

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