“The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.”
“There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose.”
“Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.”
Source: The Mayor of Casterbridge
“Pain is the body's way of ridding itself of weakness.”
Source: Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner
“winners see the gain; losers see the pain.”
Source: You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”
“Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.”
“Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.”
Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim.
“The possibility of pain is where love stems from”
Source: The Humans
“There is no kindness at courts, only greed and lies and pain.”
Source: Queen's Gambit Declined (1989), Chapter 13 (p. 157)
“They had all they needed. They had the madness of pain.”
The Room (1971)
“It is painful to think about ruthlessness as an engine of improvement.”
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 75
“[ Cruelty is more cruell if we defer the pain. ]”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Life's most painful condition: to be almost a celebrity.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“To hurry pain is to leave a classroom still in session.”
Signposts to Elsewhere (2008)
“Pain will force even the truthful to speak falsely.”
Maxim 232
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
