The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.
M. Scott Peck

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

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
Henry Miller

I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.
Layne Staley

You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.
Frank Sinatra

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

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

From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
Michelangelo

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
Charles Dickens

A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
Jack Kerouac

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

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

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

Language... 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

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

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