Pain nourishes courage. You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you. Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional. Physical pain is a fact that comes with living, just as illness or financial woes or broken relationships are facts. But misery is a state of mind, a reaction to the facts, that […]
Pain Quotes
This too shall pass – just like a kidney stone.
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage.
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year’s revenues.
Time heals old pain, while it creates new ones.
It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight. (sadomasochistic pain)
Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
