Motivational Quotes

Pain

Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Pain

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

Sterne, Laurence

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.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Bradley, Bill

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Aesop

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

Sade, Marquis De

Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer --committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.

Eliot, George

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?

Rich, Adrienne

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The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be nor more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain. [Revelation]

Bible

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Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain.

Johnson, Samuel

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Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are.

Dryden, John

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The greatest evil is physical pain.

Augustine, St.

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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

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Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.

Seneca

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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Morrison, Toni

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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.

Robbins, Anthony

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That which is escaped now is pain to come.

Proverb

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The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

Hazlitt, William

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

Thompson, Francis

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To banish cares, scare away sorrow and soothe pain is the business of the poet and singer.

Bodenstedt

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We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Rohn, Jim

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Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Rogers, Will

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There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Jung, Carl

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All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

Woolf, Virginia

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Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Aeschylus

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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

Byron, Lord

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Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

Selden, John

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

Tupper, Martin

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It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

Caesar, Julius

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Everything hurts.

Michelangelo

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Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

Weil, Simone

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The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

Marx, Karl

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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.

Wyatt, Sir T.

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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Pavese, Cesare

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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Sterling, John

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All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.

Maistre, Joseph De

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There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

Weil, Simone

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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.

Wolf, Naomi

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Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute.

Twain, Mark

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To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.

Terence

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Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

Ellis, Havelock