Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
George Will

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

The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.
Anne Rice

There's been a lot of speculation about every single girl I'm with and it actually does quite irritate me after a while, more so because it's a complete pain for the girls.
Prince William

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

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

And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.
Thomas Moore

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!
Joseph Addison

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

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

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

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