“Of all pains, the greatest pain
Is to love, and love in vain.”
George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne (1666–1735) 1st Baron Lansdowne
The British Enchanters (1705), Act III, scene iii.
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Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) British writer
From Anacreon, vii. Gold; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.”
Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
“One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.”
Walter Bagehot (1826–1877) British journalist, businessman, and essayist
Source: Physics and Politics https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4350 (1869), Ch. 5, The Age of Discussion
“Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
“Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.”
Drew Barrymore (1975) American actress, director and producer
Variant: In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.
Morarji Desai (1896–1995) Former Indian Finance Minister, Freedom Fighters, Former prime minister
19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967
“… mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.”
Victor Hugo book The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“But if one should guide his life by true principles, man's greatest riches is to live on a little with contented mind; for a little is never lacking.”
Quod siquis vera vitam ratione gubernet,
divitiae grandes homini sunt vivere parvo
aequo animo; neque enim est umquam penuria parvi.
Lucretius (-94–-55 BC) Roman poet and philosopher
Quod siquis vera vitam ratione gubernet,
divitiae grandes homini sunt vivere parvo
aequo animo; neque enim est umquam penuria parvi.
Book V, lines 1117–1119 (tr. Rouse)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
