Pain

(221 votes)   Pain pays the income of each precious thing.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(219 votes)   Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.''

Mary Tyler Moore
1936-, American Actress

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(210 votes)   Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits -- which was exactly where they were supposed to be.

Richard Marcinko
American Business Author

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(206 votes)   And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be nor more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain. [Revelation]

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(205 votes)   No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

William Penn
1644-1718, British Religious Leader, Founder of Pennsylvania

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(200 votes)   Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing.

Anthony Robbins
1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant

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(178 votes)   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, Writer

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(171 votes)   All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.

Joseph De Maistre
1753-1821, French Diplomat, Philosopher

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(171 votes)   Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
1689-1762, British Society Figure, Letter Writer

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(169 votes)   One pain is lessened by another's anguish.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(169 votes)   Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(168 votes)   pain is weakness leaving the body

thomas gibbs
wrestler

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(165 votes)   Even Pain pricks to livelier living.

Amy Lowell
1874-1925, American Poet, Critic

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(163 votes)   The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.

Publilius Syrus
1st Century BC, Roman Writer

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(161 votes)   All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician

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