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There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things.

He that is uneasy at every little pain is never without some ache.

Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes, joy.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.

Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain And perish in our own.

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale. from the poem The Cotter’s Saturday Night.

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.

Pain is life--the sharper, the more evidence of life.

Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again.

Pain is weakness leaving the body.

Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage.

Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.