When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.
It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.
You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.
There’s nothing so painful, so corrosive, as suspicion.
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.
There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
The pain of failure – the pain of failure that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.
Silence is a protective coating over pain.
No pain means the end of feeling; each of our joys is a bargain with the devil.
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
I can bear pain, myself, but I could not bear yours. That would take more strength than I have.
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
