#Pain Quotes

“He that sleeps feels not the tooth-ache”

“I am not prone to weeping as our sex commonly are; the want of which vain dew perchance shall dry your pities;but I have that honorable grief lodged here which burns worse than tears drown.”

“There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently”

“Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan For that deep wound it gives my friend and me; Is't not enough to torture me alone, But slave to slavery my sweet'st friend must be?”

“One pain is lessened by another's anguish.”

“The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!”

“The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.”

“For now they kill me with a living death.”

“Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain: As, painfully to pore upon a book, To seek the light of truth, which truth the while Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look.”

“Love that we cannot have is the one that lasts the longest,hurts the deepest,but feels the strongest”

“The mind of guilt is full of scorpions.”

“Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish.”

“Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.”

“Where the greater malady is fixed,The lesser is scarce felt.”

“Weep I cannot;But my heart bleeds.”

“Indeed, sir, he that sleeps feels not the toothache; but a man that were to sleep your sleep, and a hangman to help him to bed, I think he would change places with his officer; for look you, sir, you know not which way you shall go.”

“Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.”

“These words are razors to my wounded heart.”

“one pain is cured by another. catch some new infection in your eye and the poison of the old one would die.”

“Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.”

“You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?”

“Through love, all pain will turn to medicine.”

“You try to be faithful And sometimes you're cruel. You are mine. Then, you leave. Without you, I can't cope. And when you take the lead, I become your footstep. Your absence leaves a void. Without you, I can't cope. You have disturbed my sleep, You have wrecked my image. You have set me apart. Without you, I can't cope.”

“Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs; being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears; what is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall, and a preserving sweet.”

“Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.”

“Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose.”

“The wounds invisible that Love's keen arrows make.”

“Don't get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.”

“Every midwife knowsthat not until a mother’s wombsoftens from the pain of laborwill a way unfoldand the infant find that opening to be born.Oh friend!There is treasure in your heart,it is heavy with child.Listen.All the awakened ones,like trusted midwives are saying,'welcome this pain.It opens the dark passage of Grace.”

“What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside.”

“They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.”

“The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.”

“The labor we delight in physics [cures] pain.”

“Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.”

“Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain.”

“All love's pleasure shall not match its woe.”

“May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism.”

“...men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.”

“The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.”

“One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.”

“Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.”

“I would that I were an old beggarRolling a blind pearl eye,For he cannot see my ladyGo gallivanting by.”

“That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.”

“I thought my heart had been wounded with the claws of a lion.”

“We want to avoid pain and have pleasure, so if our early attempts to achieve our dreams fail, we want to avoid the pain of future failure and rejection, so we stop trying and write it off with a broadbrush, "I'm just not driven enough, not well educated enough, not attractive enough, not smart enough."”

“All men live in sufferingI know as few can know,Whether they take the upper roadOr stay content on the low.”

“A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.”

“A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.”

“O heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head You'd know the folly of being comforted.”

“If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.”