Source: Lover Unleashed
From Anacreon, vii. Gold; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Pain means you're alive. Pain is good. Pain is life.”
Source: Blood of My Blood
Source: Beauty for Ashes: Receiving Emotional Healing
“Pain is no longer pain when it is past.”
Old Songs and New. Nature's Lesson, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 575.
“My joy is as painful as my pain.”
Ibid., p. 100
The Book of Disquiet
Original: A minha alegria é tão dolorosa como a minha dor.
“Is pain a promise? I was schooled in pain”
"The Sententious Man," ll. 31-36
Words for the Wind (1958)
Context: p>Is pain a promise? I was schooled in pain,
And found out what I could of all desire;
I weep for what I'm like when I'm alone
In the deep center of the voice and fire.I know the motion of the deepest stone.
Each one's himself, yet each one's everyone.</p
“For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.”
Book II, ch. 1 http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/discourses.2.two.html
Discourses
Variant: For death or pain is not formidable, but the fear of pain or death.
