“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)
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“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)
“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
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 <br class="br">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 <br class="br">The Idea of a University (1873)
“The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.”
Laura Anne Gilman book Flesh and Fire
Source: Flesh and Fire (2009), p. 304
“Too cruel, lady, is the pain,
You bid me thus revive again.”
John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book II, p. 39
“Desire is the memory of pleasure and fear is the memory of pain. Both make the mind restless. (…)”
Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897–1981) Indian guru
Desire and fear
Source: "I am That." P.8
“The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.”
Arthur Schopenhauer book Parerga and Paralipomena
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), On Books and Reading
Jupiter, Act 2
The Flies (1943)
“Idleness, theft, and viciousness dishonor your mother who in pain bore you.”
Mark Rosenfelder American language inventor
Some of the original tenets in Jippirasti http://www.almeopedia.com/Jippirasti#Jippir.E2.80.99s_demands, another Almean religion <br class="br">Fictional sayings
“A lot of spiritual gains come through pain, hurt, struggle, confusion and disappointment.”
Bill Hybels (1951) American writer
Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)
“(…) Suffering is a call for enquiry, all pain needs investigation. Don’t be lazy to think.”
Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897–1981) Indian guru
Suffering
Source: I am That, P.204.
“Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life.”
Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist
Source: The Principles of Ethics (1897), Part I: The Data of Ethics, Ch. 6, The Biological View