Stronger than pain quotes (page 59) | Quotes of famous people

“These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown
Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain.”

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) English novelist and poet

Hap http://www.poetry-online.org/hardy_hap.htm" (1866), lines 13-14, from Wessex Poems (1898)

“Feeling is an art and, like any other art, can be acquired by taking pains.”

Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist

Feeling
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part VI - Mind and Matter

“Look beyond your self-importance and pain. You will know yourself better.”

Neamat Imam book The Black Coat

The Black Coat (2013)

“That's the thing about pain," Augustus said, and then glanced back at me. "It demands to be felt.”

John Green book The Fault in Our Stars

Augustus "Gus" Waters, p. 63
The Fault in Our Stars (2012)

“I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing.”

Anne Rice (1941) American writer

“Expect to feel pleasure. Knowledge is sexy. Expect to feel pain. Knowledge is torture.”

Jeff Noon book Vurt

Source: Vurt

“Remember the pain?' thought Artemis. I hate myself. I really do.”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: The Time Paradox

“This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.”

T.S. Eliot Murder in the Cathedral

Source: Murder in the Cathedral

“The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.”

Herb Caen (1916–1997) American newspaper columnist

Dell, Diana. Memorable Quotations: Humorists, Wits, and Satirists of the Past, p. 54 http://books.google.com/books?id=IhgDPQvUM6YC&pg=PA54. iUniverse, 2000. ISBN 0595165958
Attributed

“It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say he is one who never inflicts pain.”

John Henry Newman (1801–1890) English cleric and cardinal

Discourse VIII, pt. 10. http://books.google.com/books?id=YdrJkVPhptwC&q=%22it+is+Almost+a%22+%22a+gentle+man+to+say+he+is+one+who+never+inflicts+pain%22&pg=PA208#v=onepage
The Idea of a University (1873)