To have pain is to have certainty; to hear about pain is to have doubt.
Pain Quotes
This is another small page with no flagged entries. Suman Pokhrel, Shakespeare, Cesare Pavese, Sarah Williams and Sanu Sharma lead. The sourced lines vary a great deal. Shelley’s Julian and Maddalo (1819) says those who inflict must suffer, for they see the work of their own hearts. Edward Young’s Night-Thoughts (1742) has the neat paradox that a man of pleasure is a man of pains. Cesar Chavez’s Plan of Delano (1965) is a statement from a farm workers’ march, not a reflection: our sweat and our blood have fallen on this land to make other men rich.
Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark,
And shares the nature of infinity.
You purchase pain with all that joy can give,
And die of nothing but a rage to live.
If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.
For there are deeds
Which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.
And taste
The melancholy joys of evils pass'd,
For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.
Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain,
Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain.