Quotes on Pain

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Author: Aristotle

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

Author: Lance Armstrong

Pain is never permanent.

Author: Saint Avila

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

Author: Henry Beecher

He preacheth patience that never knew pain.

Author: H. Bohn

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

Author: Bill Bradley

A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.

Author: Marion Bradley

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

Author: William Bryant

Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

Author: Betty Buckley

If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

Author: Jim Carrey

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

Author: Charlie Chaplin

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

Author: Pierre Charron

The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.

Author: Emile Cioran

I don't know if we ever fully get over the pain of watching a child trying to find their way through a world that too often doesn't understand.

Author: Anne Ford

Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to... Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain.

Author: Whitey Ford

Bruce Willis. Pain in my ass, no problem about that. We just didn't get along. We got along off camera, but shooting we just didn't get along.

Author: Antoine Fuqua

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

Author: Khalil Gibran

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Author: Khalil Gibran

I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.

Author: Arthur Golden

I paint because it hurts not to. Pain is in the word painting.

Author: Marta Gottfried

As anyone who has been close to someone that has committed suicide knows, there is no other pain like that felt after the incident.

Author: Peter Greene

Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.

Author: Bret Harte

I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.

Author: Mariel Hemingway

So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.

Author: Matthew Henry

I meditate a lot, but I am constantly in pain. I'm trying to live with this. You just have to accept it.

Author: Roy Horn

Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Author: Derek Jarman

He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.

Author: Robinson Jeffers

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Author: Thomas Jefferson

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

Author: Samuel Johnson

My painting carries with it the message of pain.

Author: Frida Kahlo

But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things.

Author: Richard Krajicek

For a sensation to be felt as pain is for it to be pain.

Author: Saul Kripke

I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.

Author: Carol Leifer

The pain was considerable, but trivial compared with my mental state.

Author: Harold Lloyd

They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.

Author: Henry Longfellow

Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.

Author: Malcolm Lowry

Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.

Author: Ernst Mach

Pain's not bad, it's good. It teaches you things. I understand that.

Author: Charles Manson

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

Author: Karl Marx

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

Author: Michelangelo

All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.

Author: John Mill

I was taught that pain is bad.

Author: Keith Miller

And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing.

Author: Ricardo Montalban

And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.

Author: Thomas Moore

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.

Author: Toni Morrison

To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain.

Author: Holly Near

Ali had a break that was an inch and a half long, and you keep getting hit as hard and as much as I hit Ali, the pain would take over and you would pass out.

Author: Ken Norton

As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

Author: Dan O'Brien

The wages of pedantry is pain.

Author: Carroll O'Connor

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

Author: Ovid

Remorse is the pain of sin.

Author: Theodore Parker

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

Author: Francis Picabia

Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.

Author: Hugh Prather

The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.

Author: Anne Rice

I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It's cleansing.

Author: Lionel Richie

Russia has gone through eight years of continuing economic pain.

Author: Jeffrey Sachs

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

Author: Marquis Sade

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

Author: George Santayana

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

Author: Percy Shelley

I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.

Author: Amy Tan

We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.

Author: James Taylor

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

Author: Francis Thompson

Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.

Author: Polly Toynbee

Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain.

Author: Benjamin Tucker

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Author: Marina Warner

As I look back over fifty years of ministry, I recall innumerable tests, trials and times of crushing pain. But through it all, the Lord has proven faithful, loving, and totally true to all his promises.

Author: David Wilkerson

Elvis was rock'n'roll. He came from the poverty and the pain.

Author: Link Wray

My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain.

Author: Dick York

It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.

Author: Roger Zelazny

Strength comes not from resisting pain, but from finding the courage to endure it

Author: Olivia Kane

In every shining moment of happiness, there is that drop of poison: the knowledge that pain will come again.

Author: Sanya Khoomrit

Fear is simply the anticipation of pain, embrace it and see it dissolved by your courage

Author: Emily Nguyen

The only way to truly heal is to embrace vulnerability and let go of pain.

Author: Sophia Martinez

Growth is painful, change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

Author: Tony Robbins