Pain

“Pain is temporary, glory is forever.”

“But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?”

“In a universe of blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won’t find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice.”

“It never occurred to me to call 911 or my physician. […] As foolish as it may appear, you are, in a sense, a prisoner of the pain, which was intolerable. You're thinking, what could I do to relieve myself of it. If it becomes intense enough, you're perfectly willing to accept cardiac arrest as a possible way of getting rid of the pain.”

“Pain is just Mother Nature’s little way of telling you not to do something again in a way you’ll remember.”

“The term 'psychogenic' assumes that medical diagnosis is so perfect that all organic causes of pain can be detected; regrettably, we are far from such infallibility... All too often, the diagnosis of neurosis as the cause of pain hides our ignorance of many aspects of pain medicine.”

“There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single attack exhaust itself; pain always makes single attacks, so that its bite may be more intense, more concentrated. And you, while its fangs are implanted and injecting their venom at one spot, do not forget to offer it another place where it can bite you, and so relieve the pain of the first.”

“May my pain remain drunk singing its own love songs.”

“(May) the dead body of agony remain asleepresting its head on a pillow of flowers.”

“A portion of life, every moment gets torn out of me hurting, and flees away.”

“My heart itself is a wound,and hurts more if touched.”

“Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing.”

“World's use is cold, world's love is vain,But pain is not the fruit of pain.”

“Nature knows best, and she says, roar!”

“So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.”

“There is purpose in pain,Otherwise it were devilish.”

“You purchase pain with all that joy can give,And die of nothing but a rage to live.”

“Pain is no longer pain when it is past.”

“Ah, to think how thin the veil that liesBetween the pain of hell and Paradise.”

“Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain,Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain.”

“One fire burns out another's burning,One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.”

“The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace,The smoke of hell,—that monster callèd Paine.”

“Your pain comes upon the individual, one by one, to each man alone and no other, but my soul groans for the city, for me and you together.”

“There's a pang in all rejoicing,Are singing the selfsame strain.”

“Nothing begins, and nothing ends, And perish in our own.”

“The mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain,And the anguish of the singer marks the sweetness of the strain.”

“A man of pleasure is a man of pains.”

“When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.”