Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
~ Aeschylus

The injuries we do and the injuries we suffer are seldom weighed on the same scales.
~ Aesop

The greatest evil is physical pain.
~ St. Augustine

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
~ Henry Ward Beecher

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

To banish cares, scare away sorrow and soothe pain is the business of the poet and singer.
~ Bodenstedt

There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.
~ Bill Bradley

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

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
~ Lord Byron

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
~ Julius Caesar

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
~ Marcus T. Cicero

The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.
~ Marcus T. Cicero

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
~ Emily Dickinson

Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are.
~ John Dryden

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer --committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.
~ George Eliot

Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
~ Havelock Ellis

There are no gains without pains.
~ Benjamin Franklin

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
~ Kahlil Gibran

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

The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
~ William Hazlitt