One pain is lessened by another’s anguish. ... Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.
— Romeo and Juliet
Quotes About Pain
The Dalai Lama says tragedy can become a source of strength, and that hope is what keeps a painful experience from turning into a real disaster. Edgar Allan Poe, by contrast, describes his own genius as a spark quenched in misery, a gift ruined by suffering. One treats pain as raw material, the other as an extinguishing force.
The theme spans physical agony and the grief that follows loss. Ovid promises that pain will turn to good by and by, the faith of a patient farmer. Tagore turns the world's kiss of pain into songs, an alchemy of suffering into art. Mark Twain reminds us that grief is not measured by the size of the loss but by its meaning to the person who bears it. Even Hippocrates notes that intense pain can unsettle the mind itself. These writers do not agree on what pain is for, but they all give it weight.
The theme spans physical agony and the grief that follows loss. Ovid promises that pain will turn to good by and by, the faith of a patient farmer. Tagore turns the world's kiss of pain into songs, an alchemy of suffering into art. Mark Twain reminds us that grief is not measured by the size of the loss but by its meaning to the person who bears it. Even Hippocrates notes that intense pain can unsettle the mind itself. These writers do not agree on what pain is for, but they all give it weight.
It is rarely in the world's history that its ideal has been one of joy and beauty. The worship of pain has far more often dominated the world.
— The Soul of Man Under Socialism
There is no shame in what you are feeling, Harry,' said Dumbledore's voice. 'On the contrary... the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.
— Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.
— The Waves
...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
— Persuasion
how anxiously I yearned for those I had forsaken.
— The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
— Nicholas Nickleby
The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state.
— Les Misérables
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
— Men Without Women
My wails of sorroware tormenting my soul
— The Love Poems of Rumi
— The Time Machine
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
— Meditations
Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
— Robots and Empire
Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
— The Count of Monte Cristo
If you try to cure evil with evilyou will add more pain to your fate.
— Ajax
The world has kissed my Soul with its pain, asking for its return in Songs.
— Stray Birds
Thanks be to God, Who gives us sufferingas sacred remedy for all our sins, that best and purest essence which preparesthe strong in spirit for divine delights!
— Flowers of Evil and Other Works/Les Fleurs du Mal et Oeuvres Choisies : A Dual-Language Book (Dover Foreign Language Study Guides)
But these are small troubles, people will say. Yes, but they are drops which wear hollows in the rock.
— The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography
My mother's death supervened, and this was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worshipped her... I could not resign myself to the loss of a being on whom I counted to make invisible the unavoidable blemishes of my soul.
— The Secret Life of Salvador Dali
If something is to stay in the memory it must be burned in: only that which never ceases hurting stays in the memory.
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect.
Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.
It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.