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“Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.”
Source: Someone Dies, Someone Lives
“Remember, pain is temporary; film is forever.”
Return of the King: Extended Edition Special Feature
“Pain is no evil,
Unless it conquer us.”
St. Maura, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Attributed
“Grace changes us and change is painful".”
“They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains.”
Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Prologue
“Be — fight — feel the pain — and love the wounds!”
Vox Posthuma
“The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.”
Book I, Ch. 25.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)
“«Tomorrow I have the pain of the parade.”
1 October, 2008, Private comment captured by the microphones during the closing of the XIII Interparliamentary Meeting of the Popular Party
As Opposition Leader, 2008
Source: El País https://elpais.com/elpais/2008/10/11/actualidad/1223713020_850215.html
“I have declared war on pain.”
The Management of Pain (1954)
“If pain is the weight of being, love is the purpose.”
Source: Morning Star (2016), Ch. 65: The Vale
“The love that is not all pain is not all love.”
El amor que no es todo dolor, no es todo amor.
Voces (1943)
“And the pain in the morning comes as easy as it goes”
A Kiss Before I Go
29 (2005)
“The Outsider's miseries are the prophet's teething pains.”
Source: The Outsider (1956), Chapter Four The Attempt to Gain Control
Context: The Outsider's miseries are the prophet's teething pains. He retreats into his room, like a spider in a dark corner; he lives alone, wishes to avoid people.
“That so much time was wasted in this pain.”
Christ, Old Student in a New School (1972)
Context: That so much time was wasted in this pain.
Ten thousand years ago he might have let off down
To not return again!
A dreadful laugh at last escapes his lips;
The laughter sets him free.
A Fool lives in the Universe! he cries.
The Fool is me!
And with one final shake of laughter
Breaks his bonds.
The nails fall skittering to marble floors.
And Christ, knelt at the rail, sees miracle
As Man steps down in amiable wisdom
To give himself what no one else can give:
His liberty.
“It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful.”
The Nine Satanic Sins (1987)