
“God is a concept by which we measure our pain.”
"God"
Lyrics, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970)
“God is a concept by which we measure our pain.”
"God"
Lyrics, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970)
“Where your pain is, there your heart lies also.”
“Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message.”
Source: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
“What a blessed if painful thing, this business of being alive.”
Source: NOS4A2
“As the thing more perfect is,
The more it feels of pleasure and of pain.”
Canto VI, lines 107–108 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
“Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.”
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 26
“Though life seems painful, at the same time it is wonderful”
空色(Sorairo), Siki
Lyrics
“I wanted to cry, loud and wet with the pain of love.”
Geek Love (1989)
“When the head aches, all the members partake of the pains.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 2.
“Ill repute is a good thing and much the same as pain.”
§ 5
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
“The very word "sorrow" colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.”
3rd Public Talk, Brockwood Park, UK (5 September 1981)
1980s
“If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“There is a pleasure in poetic pains
Which only poets know.”
Source: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 285.
“If pain does not die
we shall make it poetry.”
From Sublimation of Disobedience (1998)
“Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.”
“Futility is the defining characteristic of life. Pain is proof of existence”
Thomas Covenant
“Pain doesn’t follow us; it walks up front.”
El dolor no nos sigue: camina adelante.
Voces (1943)
“That which they call love, it is nothing except the pain of longing.”
Daz si da heizent minne,
Deis niewan senede leit.
"Friuntlîchen lac", line 19; translation from Gale Sigal Erotic Dawn-Songs of the Middle Ages (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996) p. 36.
“Detested sport,
That owes its pleasures to another's pain.”
Of fox-hunting.
Source: The Task (1785), Book III, The Garden, Line 326