pain quotes

• He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. (Samuel Johnson) [pain/being]
• The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. (Charles Dickens) [pain/joy/meeting]
• Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. (Mark Twain) [animals/pain/pleasure]
• Where once my careless childhood strayed,/ A stranger yet to pain. (Thomas Gray) [childhood/pain]
• The best laid schemes of mice and men Gang aft a-gley; And leave us naught but grief and pain For promised joy. (Robert Burns) [men/misfortune/pain/joy]
• The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the easy life of the gods would be a lifeless life. (Hannah Arendt) [human/condition/pain/life]
• The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. ( Aristotle) [pleasure/pain]
• The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain. (Henry Ward Beecher) [moment/pain]
• It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable. (Arnold Bennett) [experience/pleasure/pain/reach]
• It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony. (Benjamin Britten) [music/beauty/pain/beauty]
• All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief. (Marcus Cicero) [pain/willpower]
• No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good. (Marcus Cicero) [pain/evil/life/pleasure]
• It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all. (Joseph Conrad) [human/face/pain/source]
• After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs. (Emily Dickinson) [pain/feeling/nerves]
• If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery. (Albert Einstein) [men/pain/result/state]
• We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant. (Albert Einstein) [pain/death]
• 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) [pain/human/hatred/]
• Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself. (Havelock Ellis) [pain/death/life/life]
• Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [love/hatred/pain/contempt]
• Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life. (Betty Friedan) [strange/being/pain/discipline]
• Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness -- by making the ultimate escape from life. -- No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it. (Dag Hammarskjold) [pain/thoughts/death/life]
• Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity. (William Hazlitt) [pain]
• The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings. (William Hazlitt) [pain/more/destruction]
• The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings. (William Hazlitt) [pain/more/destruction]
• I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise. (Thomas Jefferson) [find/pain/more/pleasure]
• How much pain worries have cost us that have never happened? (Thomas Jefferson) [pain]
• Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain. (Samuel Johnson) [pleasure/pain]
• He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. (Samuel Johnson) [pain/being]
• Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression. (Samuel Johnson) [pain/pleasure]
• Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment. (Samuel Johnson) [happiness/happiness/pain/hope-disappointment]
• If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it? (Samuel Johnson) [pleasure/pain]

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