Stronger than pain quotes (page 26) | Quotes of famous people

“No state of mind, not even positive suffering, is more painful than the want of interesting objects. The vacant soul preys on itself, and often rushes with impatience from the security which demands no effort, to the brink of peril.”

William Ellery Channing (1780–1842) United States Unitarian clergyman

War (1816)
Context: One of the great springs of war may be found in a very strong and general propensity of human nature, in the love of excitement, of emotion, of strong interest; a propensity which gives a charm to those bold and hazardous enterprises which call forth all the energies of our nature. No state of mind, not even positive suffering, is more painful than the want of interesting objects. The vacant soul preys on itself, and often rushes with impatience from the security which demands no effort, to the brink of peril.

“It should not for a moment be supposed that cultivation of the intellect leads a man to shrink from inflicting pain. Many educated men are no more humane, are in fact far less so, than many comparatively uneducated people.”

Henry Jacob Bigelow (1818–1890) American surgeon

Source: Surgical Anaesthesia (1894), p. 365

“Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.”

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher

“The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.”

Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic

“Make no mistake about it, making a good record is pure, unadulterated pain. If you fall and break your leg--that's pain. But I'm telling you, the phase between pain and death? That's making a good record. It's extreme.”

Ben Harper (1969) singer-songwriter and musician

Roots Radical http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-57534351.html, Guitar Player (December 1, 1999).

“Every pain is a lesson.”

Frank Delaney (1942–2017) Irish writer and journalist

Source: The Matchmaker of Kenmare

“In the face of pain there are no heroes.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

“Take pains. Be perfect.”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

“There's no love without pain.”

Irving Stone book Lust for Life

Source: Lust for Life

“Pain was a fascinating horror”

Aldous Huxley book Brave New World

Source: Brave New World

“The purpose exceeds the pain.”

Beth Moore (1957) American evangelist

“A joy as intense as pain”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

“All pain is the same.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

“Remorse is the pain of sin.”

Theodore Parker (1810–1860) abolitionist

As quoted in Man a revelation of God (1888) by George Everett Ackerman, p. 254.

“Pain is never permanent.”

Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) Roman Catholic saint

The Book of Positive Quotations (2007) edited by John Cook, Steve Deger, and Leslie Ann Gibson, p. 333

“Labour for his pains.”

Edward Moore (1712–1757) English dramatist and writer

The Boy and the Rainbow. Compare: "I have had my labour for my travail", William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act i., Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)