Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
Lance Armstrong
The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body
Publilius Syrus
Pain is deeper than all thought; laughter is higher than all pain
Elbert Hubbard
There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated
Friedrich Nietzsche
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.”
Kahlil Gibran
Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.
Peter De Vries
When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
Toni Morrison
When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy
Salman Rushdie
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Aristotle
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Aristotle
Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt
Samuel Johnson
The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom
Arthur Schopenhauer
Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains
Democritus