Pain Quotes

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self, so therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.

Kahlil Gibran

She knows the truth can cause a sharp pain behind your eyes and that love sometimes feels like a fist around your throat.

Jodi Picoult

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Aldous Huxley

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

Aeschylus

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

Martin Tupper

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 attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

C.S. Lewis

Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.

William Cullen Bryant

The longer the life the more the offense, the more the offense the more the pain, the more the pain the less defense and the less defense the less the gain.

Sir Thomas Wyatt

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

Jane Austen

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Carl Gustav Jung

There are no gains without pains.

Benjamin Franklin

Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

Samuel Johnson

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

Kahlil Gibran

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

J.K. Rowling

Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Face your life, It's pain, It's pleasure, Leave no path untaken.

Neil Gaiman

Pain pays the income of each precious thing.

William Shakespeare

One pain is lessened by another's anguish.

William Shakespeare

The light of love flows out of my soul, but it can go nowhere because it's blocked by pain. I could inhale and exhale every morning for the rest of my life, but that wouldn't solve anything.

Paulo Coelho

I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing.

Charles Dickens