Endure and persist, this pain will turn to good by and by.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline, or the pain of regret, or disappointment.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Learning is not child's play, we cannot learn without pain.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

The memory of joy is no longer joy, the memory of pain is pain still.

Champagne for my sham friends, real pain for my real friends.

Next to ingratitude, the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction for others' affliction for the affliction of both, and experiences pain and grief.

To perceive is to suffer.

Be the business never so painful you may have it done for money.

This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects, for it redoubleth joys and cutteth griefs in half.

'Tis not where we lie but whence we fell, the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury, but if you injure him you will always remember.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.