Pain Quotes

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
Henry Ward Beecher

Moment, Though, Ill

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich

Alone, Loneliness, Two

My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.
Phyllis Diller

Her, Left, Trick

The greatest evil is physical pain.
Saint Augustine

Greatest, Evil, Physical

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich

Alone, Loneliness, Solitude

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

War, Death, Humanity

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.
Henry Rollins

Feeling, Personal, Meaning

Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.
Victor Hugo

Diverse, Suffers

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
Norman Cousins

Life, Men, Death

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Samuel Johnson

Gratitude, Revenge, Minds

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy, Give, Makes

The wages of pedantry is pain.
Carroll O'Connor

Wages, Pedantry

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Laughter, Thought, Before

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
Yoko Ono

Anger, Sadness, Creative

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

Pleasure, Arrives

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
Michelangelo

Beautiful, Failing, Hear

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

Cannot, Sensitive, Pleasure

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

Marriage, Men, Prepared

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
Hypatia

Great, Mind, Through

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

Death, Fear, Dreaded

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
Bertrand Russell

Heart, Start, Coward

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
Marcel Proust

Knowledge, Kindness, Doctor

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Doubt, Either, Brief

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

End, Through, Beginning

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
Ovid

Good, Turn, Endure

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Great, Power, Bear

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
Barbara Kingsolver

War, Spiritual, Someone

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.
Christopher Morley

Beauty, Lonely, Mind

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

Nature, Suffering, Point

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
Cesare Pavese

Life, Love, Enjoyment

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