What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.
Barbara de Angelis

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
Samuel Butler

Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
Tom Waits

Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain.
Philip Pullman

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Walter Bagehot

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.
Jeanne Moreau

I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.
Dennis Rodman

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
Barbara Kingsolver

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
John Stuart Mill

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
John Stuart Mill

All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.
John Stuart Mill

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

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
Henri Nouwen

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.
Simone Weil

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
Simone Weil

When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.
Sydney J. Harris

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
Pearl S. Buck

I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.
Robert Plant

Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.
Tori Amos

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.
Honore De Balzac