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“Rage:
Sing, Goddess, Achilles' rage,
Black and murderous, that cost the Greeks
Incalculable pain.”
Book I, opening lines
Translations, Iliad (1997)

“Oh Swaim, there is a pain here. Swaim, can't you stop this? Oh, oh, Swaim!”
Reportedly his last words. As quoted in "The Last Hours" https://books.google.com/books?id=UzEYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA573&dq=%22swaim+there+is+a+pain%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Kb4GVcaIAcjDggSYiYOoCQ&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22swaim%20there%20is%20a%20pain%22&f=false, Life of President Garfield: The Complete Record of a Wonderful Career (1881), by William Ralston Balch, p. 573
1880s
Context: [To his chief of staff, David G. Swaim] Oh Swaim, there is a pain here. Swaim, can't you stop this? Oh, oh, Swaim!

“Until the end of the world, when pain will pass away, this man groans and cries to God”
Source: On the Mystical Body of Christ, p.423
Context: Christ’s whole body groans in pain. Until the end of the world, when pain will pass away, this man groans and cries to God. And each one of us has part in the cry of that whole body. Thou didst cry out in thy day, and thy days have passed away; another took thy place and cried out in his day. Thou here, he there, and another there. The body of Christ ceases not to cry out all the day, one member replacing the other whose voice is hushed. Thus there is but one man who reaches unto the end of time, and those that cry are always His members.

“I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful.”
As quoted in Valentines & Vitriol (1977) by Rex Reed
Context: I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

Wording in Ideas and Opinions: Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of pain. One has to keep this constantly in mind if one wishes to understand spiritual movements and their development. Feeling and longing are the motive force behind all human endeavor and human creation, in however exalted a guise the latter may present themselves to us.
1930s, Religion and Science (1930)
Context: Everything that men do or think concerns the satisfaction of the needs they feel or the escape from pain. This must be kept in mind when we seek to understand spiritual or intellectual movements and the way in which they develop. For feelings and longings are the motive forces of all human striving and productivity—however nobly these latter may display themselves to us.

Nobel Address (1991)
Context: A period of transition to a new quality in all spheres of society's life is accompanied by painful phenomena. When we were initiating perestroika we failed to properly assess and foresee everything. Our society turned out to be hard to move off the ground, not ready for major changes which affect people's vital interests and make them leave behind everything to which they had become accustomed over many years. In the beginning we imprudently generated great expectations, without taking into account the fact that it takes time for people to realize that all have to live and work differently, to stop expecting that new life would be given from above.

“Justice turns the scale
For those to whom through pain
At last comes wisdom's gain.”
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 250–251 (tr. E. H. Plumptre)

“I cannot recall those years without horror, loathing, and heart-rending pain.”
Pt. I, ch. 2
Confession (1882)
Context: I cannot recall those years without horror, loathing, and heart-rending pain. I killed people in war, challenged men to duels with the purpose of killing them, and lost at cards; I squandered the fruits of the peasants' toil and then had them executed; I was a fornicator and a cheat. Lying, stealing, promiscuity of every kind, drunkenness, violence, murder — there was not a crime I did not commit... Thus I lived for ten years.
“We have become accustomed to living our life with joy amidst pain and challenges”
Access Hollywood Interview (May 2005)
Fairness and Justice http://musingsbyken.blogspot.com/2009/06/fairness-and-justice.html. Musings Blog http://musingsbyken.blogspot.com. (2009-06-29). (Topic: Life)

“He has not lived in vain
who learns to be unruffled
by loss, by gain,
by, joy, by pain.”
The Cherubinic Wanderer

“Yes, it is a painful lot to be a poet and to love both God and man by the farthest northern seas!”
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book One: The Revelation of the Deity

“So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.”
Job 3.
Commentaries

“You will begin to succeed with your life when the pains and problems of others matter to you.”
In an interview with The News Magazine, Nigeria, on his charitable activities - "Why I Cater For The Poor" http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10442557/TB-Joshua-Interview---Why-I-Cater-For-The-Poor (December 17 2007)
“Grief restrains grief as dams torrential rain
And time grows fertile with extended pain”
'Exclusion of Rhyme' Alan Swallow Denver 1942
Epigrams

“So young when the pain had begun
Now forever afraid of being loved.”
For The Love Of A Daughter
Lyrics, Unbroken (2011)

“It pains me to believe that you have never stepped out of the skin you live with.”
Lyrics, A Crow Left of the Murder... (2004)