Pain is never permanent.
—Teresa of Avila (1515–82) Spanish Carmelite Nun, Mystic
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
—Simone Weil (1909–1943) French Philosopher, Political Activist
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.
—Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–90) English Journalist, Author, Satirist, Media Personality
Failure’s pain subsides faster than the ache of regret.
—Unknown
They can’t hurt you unless you let them.
—Indian Proverb
Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor; but then the trade must be worked at, and the calling followed, or neither the, estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes. If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman’s house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while idleness and neglect increase them.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
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.
—Marquis de Sade (1740–1814) French Writer
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.
—Naomi Wolf (b.1962) American Writer, Journalist
Picasso’s mother held great ambitions for him when he was a child. She instructed him: If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll end up as Pope”. Instead,” Picasso quipped, “I became a painter and became a Picasso”.
—Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish Painter, Sculptor, Artist
The greatest evil is physical pain.
—Augustine of Hippo (354–430) Roman-African Christian Philosopher
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
—Lance Armstrong (b.1971) American Cyclist, Professional Athlete
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
—C. S. Lewis (1898–1963) Irish-British Academic, Author, Literary Scholar
Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves.
—Miguel Angel Ruiz (b.1952) Mexican Author, Spiritualist
The most painful part of our bodily pain is that which is bodiless or immaterial, namely our impatience, and the delusion that it will last forever.
—Jean Paul (1763–1825) German Novelist, Philosopher
That which is escaped now is pain to come.
—Common Proverb
Pain may be said to follow pleasure, as its shadow; but the misfortune is, that the substance belongs to the shadow, and the emptiness to its cause.
—Charles Caleb Colton (c.1780–1832) English Clergyman, Aphorist
What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (c.43 BCE–c.18 CE) Roman Poet
Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
To touch a sore is to renew one’s grief.
—Terence (c.195–159 BCE) Roman Comic Dramatist
Obviously, the real issue has nothing to do with fear itself, but, rather, how we hold the fear. For some, the fear is totally irrelevant. For others, it creates a state of paralysis. The former hold their fear from a position of power (choice, energy, and action), and the latter hold it from a position of pain (helplessness, depression, and paralysis).
—Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author
The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.
—Jennifer Aniston (b.1969) American Actress
The pain is sometimes preferable to the treatment.
—Indian Proverb
The pain that’s created by avoiding hard work is actually much worse than any pain created from the actual work itself. Because if you don’t begin to work on those ideas that God has blessed you with, they will become stagnant inside of you and eventually begin to eat away at you. You might seem OK on the outside, but inside you will be ill from not getting those ideas out of your heart and into the world. Stalling leads to sickness. But taking steps, even baby steps, always leads to success.
—Russell Simmons (b.1957) American Music Promoter
The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom.
—Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German Philosopher
After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
—Emily Dickinson (1830–86) American Poet
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
—Cesare Pavese (1908–50) Italian Novelist, Poet, Critic, Translator
The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.
—Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer
In the long run, avoiding activity that might hurt causes more agony than acting, failing, and dealing with the pain.
—Unknown
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
—Buddhist Teaching
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.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
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