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World's use is cold, world's love is vain, World's cruelty is bitter bane; But pain is not the fruit of pain.

Nature knows best, and she says, roar!

So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.

There is purpose in pain, Otherwise it were devilish.

You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.

Pain is no longer pain when it is past.

Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain: As, painfully to pore upon a book, To seek the light of truth, which truth the while Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look.

Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish.

The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine.

And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.

There's a pang in all rejoicing, And a joy in the heart of pain; And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.

The mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain, And the anguish of the singer marks the sweetness of the strain. - Sarah Williams ,

When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

Pain is no evil unless it conquers us.

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

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.