Some of us are returning to sanity, because we’re tired of the pain. We’re in a hurry. No time to mess around.
—Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author
Happiness is yours in the here and now. The painful states of anxiety and loneliness are abolished permanently. Financial affairs are not financial problems. You are at ease with yourself. You are not at the mercy of unfulfilled cravings. Confusion is replaced with clarity. There is a relieving answer to every tormenting question. You possess a True Self. Something can be done about every unhappy condition. While living in the world you can be inwardly detached from its sorrows to live with personal peace and sanity.
—Vernon Howard (1918–92) American Spiritual Teacher, Philosopher
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
—Bob Marley (1945–81) Jamaican Musician, Singer, Songwriter
The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.
—Publilius Syrus (fl.85–43 BCE) Syrian-born Roman Latin Writer
Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become love. That is the mystery.
—Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) New Zealand-born British Author
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
—Sophocles (495–405 BCE) Ancient Greek Dramatist
One pain is lessened by another’s anguish.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
To touch a sore is to renew one’s grief.
—Terence (c.195–159 BCE) Roman Comic Dramatist
The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.
—Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer
Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.
—Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–89) English Poet, Writer
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
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
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
It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That’s your job.
—Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author
Forget the pain. Learn to endure. Focus your attention elsewhere.
—Marlo Morgan (1937–98) American Novelist, Author
They can’t hurt you unless you let them.
—Indian Proverb
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
—Simone Weil (1909–1943) French Philosopher, Political Activist
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
—Cesare Pavese (1908–50) Italian Novelist, Poet, Critic, Translator
After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
—Emily Dickinson (1830–86) American Poet
I don’t regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.
—Paulo Coelho (b.1947) Brazilian Songwriter, Novelist
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
—Buddhist Teaching
Hurt’s a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don’t change facts.
—Stephen King (b.1947) American Novelist, Short-Story Writer, Screenwriter, Columnist, Film Director
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.
—George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) (1819–80) English Novelist
Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
—Aeschylus (525–456 BCE) Greek Playwright
Pain is deeper than all thought; laughter is higher than all pain.
—Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American Writer, Publisher, Artist, Philosopher
It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
—Unknown
Pain is the outcome of sin.
—Buddhist Teaching
There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer
Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.
—Francis Thompson (1859–1907) English Poet, Ascetic
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