“What I mean is sometimes, for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift.”
“Truth is too big a price to pay for the luxury of avoiding pain now and then.”
Rewards of Passion (Sheer Poetry) (1981)
“Men learn to call pain “glory”; women learn to call the police.”
Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)
“To witness titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.”
Source: Ringworld (1970), p. 133
“Is "I hope you all die a painful death" too strong?”
Linus to the hardware manufacturers that refuse to release the specifications of their hardware so they could operate with the Linux kernel.
Linus Torvalds talks future of Linux, 2007-08-22, Torvalds, Linus, 2007-08-22, 2007-08-25, http://web.archive.org/web/1/apcmag.com/7012/linus_torvalds_talks_about http://apcmag.com/7012/linus_torvalds_talks_about,
2000s, 2007
“Endless brooding over a question undermines you as much as a dull pain.”
The New Gods (1969)
“Spangling the wave with lights as vain
As pleasures in the vale of pain,
That dazzle as they fade.”
Canto I, stanza 23.
The Lord of the Isles (1815)
“Without the pain there'd be no learning
Without the hurting we'd never change.”
Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)
“It pained him to think how naive he had once been.”
Source: Jack Faust (1997), Chapter 19, “Ashes” (p. 328)
“Those who created yesterday’s pain cannot control tomorrow’s potential.”
In a special Christmas message - "Choose The Path Of A Champion" http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/religion/Choose-The-Path-Of-A-Champion-T-B-Joshua-s-Seasons-Greetings-200153 Ghana Web (December 25 2010)
“Nobody feels any pain
Tonight as I stand inside the rain”
Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), Just Like A Woman
“That there is pain and evil, is no rule
That I should make it greater, like a fool.”
A Thought or Two on Reading Pomfret's "Choice", in The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt, London: Edward Moxon, 1846, p. 147 https://books.google.it/books?id=t7VYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA147.
“Many times, God speaks blessing and breakthrough through pain and disappointment.”
Message to Tanzanian Presidential candidate Edward Lowassa - "VIDEO - Accept Election Results, TB Joshua Urges Tanzanian Opposition Leader" http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/11/08/video-accept-election-results-tb-joshua-urges-tanzanian-opposition-leader/ PM News, Nigeria (November 8 2015)
“Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.”
Book I, Ch. 14
Attributed
“It's very easy to feel someone's pain when you love them.”
"Conversation with Salma Hayek" (2002)
“Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.”
Lectures XI, XII, AND XIII : "Saintliness" https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Varieties_of_Religious_Experience/Lectures_XI,_XII,_and_XIII
1900s, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
Context: One mode of emotional excitability is exceedingly important in the composition of the energetic character, from its peculiarly destructive power over inhibitions. I mean what in its lower form is mere irascibility, susceptibility to wrath, the fighting temper; and what in subtler ways manifests itself as impatience, grimness, earnestness, severity of character. Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain. The pain may be pain to other people or pain to one's self — it makes little difference; for when the strenuous mood is on one, the aim is to break something, no matter whose or what. Nothing annihilates an inhibition as irresistibly as anger does it; for, as Moltke says of war, destruction pure and simple is its essence.
“Look, still is the sea and still are the breezes; but the pain in my heart is not still.”
Idyll 2, lines 38-39
Idylls
“Remember that neither the future nor the past pains thee, but only the present.”
VIII, 36
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII
Context: Remember that neither the future nor the past pains thee, but only the present. But this is reduced to a very little, if thou only circumscribest it, and chidest thy mind, if it is unable to hold out against even this.
