Pain Quotes

Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing.

Anthony Robbins

For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.

Francis Thompson

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.

Francis Thompson

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

Karl Marx

There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.

Bill Bradley

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

Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment.

Will Rogers

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Charles Dickens

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

Paulo Coelho

Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.

Neil Gaiman

That which is escaped now is pain to come.

Proverb

The injuries we do and the injuries we suffer are seldom weighed on the same scales.

Aesop

In order to excel at anything, there are always hurdles, obstacles, or challenges one must get past. It's what bodybuilders call the pain period.

Neil Strauss

Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits -- which was exactly where they were supposed to be.

Richard Marcinko

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

John Sterling

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

William Penn

Pain: an uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of others

Ambrose Bierce

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

Samuel Johnson

Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)