Nothing begins and nothing ends That is not paid with moan; For we are born in other’s pain, And perish in our own.
Pain Quotes
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Who breathes, must suffer, and who thinks, must mourn; And he alone is bless’d, who ne’er was born.
“Pain is hard to bear,” he cried, “But with patience, day by day, Even this shall pass away.”
Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.
The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.
Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.
“I think therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
Pain will force even the truthful to speak falsely.
One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing.
