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| All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. | | Buddha | |
| Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain. | | Christopher Morley | |
| Do not consider painful what is good for you. | | Euripides | |
| Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. | | Kahlil Gibran | |
| Endure and persist, this pain will turn good by and by. | | Ovid | |
| Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. | | Aristotle | |
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| How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others | | Edmund Burke | |
| I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise. | | Thomas Jefferson | |
| I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now. | | Sophia Loren | |
| If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain. | | Jimmy Buffett | |
| 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 | |
| It's getting to the point where I am no fun anymore, I am sorry. / Sometimes it hurts so badly I must cry out loud, ' I am lonely.' / I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are, you make it hard. | | David Crosby | |
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| Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains. | | Adlai E. Stevenson | |
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| Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself. | | Havelock Ellis | |
| Pain is deeper than all thought; laughter is higher than all pain | | Elbert Hubbard | |
