Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt. Samuel Johnson
Pain is life – the sharper, the more evidence of life. Charles Lamb
We cannot learn without pain. Aristotle.
Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself. Havelock Ellis
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Kahlil Gibran
There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain. R. D. Laing
The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing. Herodotus
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. Aeschylus
It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain. Cardinal Newman
Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin. Yevgeny Yevtushenko
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain. Aeschylus