|
|
World's use is cold, world's love is vain,
World's cruelty is bitter bane;
But pain is not the fruit of pain.
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Source: A Vision of Poets (st. 146)
|
Nature knows best, and she says, roar!
Author: Maria Edgeworth
Source: Ormond (ch. V, King Corny in a Paroxysm of the Gout)
|
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did
not only sigh but roar.
Author: Matthew (Mathew) Henry
Source: Commentaries (Job III, V, 24)
|
There is purpose in pain,
Otherwise it were devilish.
Author: Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith")
Source: Lucile (pt. II, canto V, st. 8)
|
You purchase pain with all that joy can give,
And die of nothing but a rage to live.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Moral Essays (ep. II, l. 99)
|
Pain is no longer pain when it is past.
Author: Margaret J. Preston
Source: Old Songs and New--Nature's Lesson
|
Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies
Between the pain of hell and Paradise.
Author: George William Russell ("A.E")
Source: Janus
|
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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Love's Labor's Lost (Berowne at I, i)
|
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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Benvolio at I, ii)
|
The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace,
The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine.
Author: Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney)
Source: Sidera--Paine
|
And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens,
Are singing the selfsame strain.
Author: Bayard Taylor
Source: Wind and the Sea
|
There's a pang in all rejoicing,
And a joy in the heart of pain;
And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens,
Are singing the selfsame strain.
Author: Bayard Taylor
Source: Wind and the Sea
|
The mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain,
And the anguish of the singer marks the sweetness of the strain.
- Sarah Williams ("Saidie"),
Author: Sarah Williams ("Saidie")
Source: Twilight Hours--Is it so, O Christ, in Heaven
|
When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
Author: Edward Young
Source: Night Thoughts (night IX, l. 500)
|
A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
Author: Edward Young
Source: Night Thoughts (night VIII, l. 793)
|
It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
Author: Julius Caesar
Source: None
|
It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.
Author: Lady Bird Johnson
Source: None
|
Pain is no evil unless it conquers us.
Author: George Eliot
Source: None
|
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: None
|
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
Author: John Lennon
Source: None
|
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Author: Carl Jung
Source: None
|
There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things.
Author: Marie de Sevigne
Source: None
|
He that is uneasy at every little pain is never without some ache.
Author: Proverb
Source: None
|
Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes, joy.
Author: Stanislaus I
Source: None
|
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
Author: Karl Marx
Source: None
|
When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
Author: Toni Morrison
Source: None
|
Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.
Author: George Meredith
Source: None
|
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Author: Jim Rohn
Source: None
|
Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Source: None
|
Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.
Author: Francis Thompson
Source: None
|
Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain And perish in our own.
Author: Francis Thompson
Source: None
|
Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.
Author: Martin F. Tupper
Source: None
|
Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale.
from the poem
The Cotter’s Saturday Night.
Author: Robert Burns
Source: None
|
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
Author: Laurence Sterne
Source: None
|
The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.
Author: Publilius Syrus
Source: None
|
Pain is life--the sharper, the more evidence of life.
Author: Charles Lamb
Source: None
|
Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again.
Author: Bret Harte
Source: None
|
Pain is weakness leaving the body.
Author: Daniel R. Evans
Source: None
|
Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
|
Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.
Author: William Cullen Bryant
Source: None
|
The pain and hurt which i feel,
go as deep as it is real;
to be around and yet unseen,
takes the water out of the steam.
Author: Jay T
Source: None
|
