Quotes

Milan Kundera photo

“Pain doesn't listen to reason, it has its own reason, which is not reasonable.”

pg 129
Source: Identity (1998)

George Bernard Shaw photo
Julian Barnes photo
Christopher Moore photo

“We know there's going to be nothing but pain, but we go back again and again.”

Christopher Moore (1957) American writer of comic fantasy

Source: The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror

Victor Hugo photo
Samuel Johnson photo

“He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.”

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer

Quoted in "Anecdotes of the Revd. Percival Stockdale" (1809) in Johnsonian Miscellanies (1897), vol. II, p. 333, edited by George Birkbeck Hill; also quoted in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson, in the Avenged Sevenfold song "Bat Country", and in Kingdom S02E04.

Siri Hustvedt photo

“Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.”

Siri Hustvedt (1955) novelist, essayist, poet

Source: The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves

Nora Roberts photo
Hugh Laurie photo

“The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.”

Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer

Source: The Walk

Tony Parsons photo

“It's painful and it's messy. But sometimes you just have to make the break and start again.”

Tony Parsons (1953) British writer

Source: Man and Wife

Albert Einstein photo

“Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Thomas Hardy photo

“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)

Samuel Butler photo

“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