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C.S. Lewis

We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite foods as if they did not know what they were eating will admit that we can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being

Abraham Crowley

A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.

Lois McMaster Bujold

But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain

Peter McWilliams

Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories We would be more alive if we did more of this, and, Life would be more lovely if we did less of that. Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.

Alexander Pope

But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose? Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure? Courageous chief,The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this caus

MARGARET J. PRESTON: _Sonnet._ _Nature's Lesson._

Pain is no longer pain when it is past.

Kahlil Gibran

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

Jerry Seinfeld

I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.

Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl

Jacoby I'm gonna teach you the meaning of pain. Elizabeth You like pain Try wearing a corset.

John Milton

But wherefore thou alone Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure Courageous chief,The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight,Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive.

Henry Bromel

We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure--full of surprises. Some good. Some bad.

Peter McWilliams

Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: We would be more alive if we did more of this, and, Life would be more lovely

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Amanda Grier

A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer.

B. J. Gupta

You did touch me but didn't feel my pain.

Danish proverb

Where there is love, there is pain.

Unknown

Pain is inevitable suffering is optional.

POPE: _Odyssey,_ Bk. xv., Line 429.

For too much rest itself becomes a pain.

Roger Zelazny

It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.

Max Eastman

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

Thomas Jefferson

How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.

Aeschylus

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Frank Leahy

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

William Goldman

Life is pain, highness Anyone who says differently is selling something.

Miguel de Cervantes

When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.

J. B. Yeats

Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.

Kahlil Gibran

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Ted W. Engstrom

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

Mel Colgrove

Know that the pain will pass, and, when it passes, you will be stronger, happier, more sensitive and aware.

Kahlil Gibran

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Mark Twain

Do something every day that you don't want to do this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

SHAKS.: _R. of Lucrece,_ Line 334.

Pain pays the income of each precious thing.

PRAED: _Legend of the Haunted Tree._

There is no pleasure like the pain Of being loved, and loving.

LONGFELLOW: _Michael Angelo,_ Pt. I., i.

They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; The loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.

Rita Rudner

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

Jack Youngblood

You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.

TENNYSON: _In Memoriam, Prologue,_ v., St. 2.

The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics numbing pain.

Christopher S. Drew

I have felt it and lived it and now it leaves me here, love is the ultimate pain and joy, without it you die with it you perish.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes

Marquis de Sade

No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

Lady Bird Johnson

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

Mary Tyler Moore

Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

If I can stop one heart from breaking, If I can ease one pain, Then my life will not have been in vain.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

Hugh Elliott

Personally I think birthdays and anniversaries are like menstrual cramps, a regular pain in the ass thats somehow connected to birth.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. iv., Line 96.

Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.

Aeschylus

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain.

But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?

"AHHHH! PAIN! PAIN! PAIN!" Spock

"The pain of love is the pain of being alive, it's a perpetual wound."

"FEEL my pain????" Billy Jeff, You *ARE* my pain!

"Yessss!!! Oh the pain, the pain..."

"Death, pain, fire, death, pain, fire, no, no, no!" - Lady Ladira

"FEEL my pain????" "Listen Doc, you ARE my pain!"

I have given my pain a name..!!

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

What is it like to feel pain?

"Oh the pain, the pain..."

Love is know the pain of too much tenderness.

Sex is only a pain in the arse if you miss

'Cause there ain't no dialtone for to give you no pain

A friend in need is a pain in the neck.

Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

The pain passes. The beauty remains.

Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something.

The absence of love is the most abject pain.

He who makes a beast of himself relieves himself the pain of being a man.

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

Time cancels young pain.

Pain is a very precious gift. Do not waste it.

This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

"I feel your wallet...er, ah... I mean pain!

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

Pain is temporary, quitting lasts forever.

What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

Do you want to know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling it, you can start to use it.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

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

The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.

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

It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

I love and I hate. How can this be, you ask in vain. I know not, but I feel it to be so and am wracked with pain.

Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.

For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.

Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit. Give everything you got today for tomorrow may never come.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation.

Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.

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

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

Our goal can only be reached through a vehicle of a pain, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.