Pain Quotes

I could well believe that it is God's intention, since we have refused milder remedies, to compel usinto unity, by persecution even and hardship. Satan is without a doubt nothing else than a hammer in thehand of a benevolent and severe God. For all, either willingly or unwillingly, do the will of God:Judas and Satan as tools or instruments, John and Peter as sons.

C.S. Lewis

A type conveys absence and presence, pleasure and pain. A cipher has a double meaning, one clear, and one in which it is said that the meaning is hidden.

Blaise Pascal

I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

Jodi Picoult

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The greatest evil is physical pain.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.

Thomas Jefferson

If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.

George Santayana

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

Samuel Johnson

Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain.

Samuel Johnson

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

Samuel Johnson

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be nor more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain. Revelation

Bible

We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

C.S. Lewis

Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

Malcolm Muggeridge

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

C.S. Lewis

To banish cares, scare away sorrow and soothe pain is the business of the poet and singer.

Bodenstedt

How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death? Where are the graces of my soul? Where are the sentiments of my heart? What have you done, oh, Father, What have you done with the garden that should have bloomed once, in this great wilderness here? Said louisa as she touched her heart.

Charles Dickens

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

Julius Caesar

Pain with the thousand teeth.

Sir William Watson