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

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

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

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.
Jim Carrey

If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
Jim Carrey

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.
Jim Carrey

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

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

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

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
Edmund Burke

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

World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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