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World's use is cold, world's love is vain, World's cruelty is bitter bane; But pain is not the fruit of pain. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Vision of Poets (st. 146) Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign. - William Cullen Bryant Say, ye oppress'd by some fantastic woes, Some jarring nerve that baffles your repose; Who press the downy couch, while slaves advance With timid eye, to read the distant glance; Who with sad prayers the weary doctor tease, To name the nameless ever-new disease; Who with mock patience dire complaints endure, Which real pain and that alone can cure; How would ye bear in real pain to lie, Despised, neglected, left alone to die? How would ye bear to draw your latest breath, Where all that's wretched paves the way for death? - George Crabbe, The Village (bk. I, l. 250-61) There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness. - Dante ("Dante Alighieri"), The Divine Comedy (Inferno, canto V, l. 121-23) Nature knows best, and she says, roar! - Maria Edgeworth, 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. - Matthew (Mathew) Henry, Commentaries (Job III, V, 24) 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. - Alice James Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us. - Charles Kingsley Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain. - Emma Lazarus There is purpose in pain, Otherwise it were devilish. - Lord Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton ("Owen Meredith"), Lucile (pt. II, canto V, st. 8) There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live. - Alexander Pope, Moral Essays (ep. II, l. 99) Pain is no longer pain when it is past. - Margaret Junkin Preston, Old Songs and New--Nature's Lesson Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise. - George William Russell (used pseudonym "AE"), 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. - William Shakespeare, 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. - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Benvolio at I, ii) The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine. - Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney), Sidera--Paine Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other. - Laurence Sterne 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. - Jonathan Swift And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain. - Bayard Taylor, 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. - Bayard Taylor, Wind and the Sea Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health. - Martin Farquhar Tupper Pain is the root of knowledge. - Simone Weil 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"), Twilight Hours--Is it so, O Christ, in Heaven When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair. - Edward Young, Night Thoughts (night IX, l. 500) Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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