C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Pain
Pain is an outcry of sin.
Pain pays the income of each precious thing.
There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach.
Sweet the pleasure after pain.
Other men’s pains are easily borne.
A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
There is a pleasure that is born of pain.
Nature knows best, and she says, roar!
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.
The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.
There is purpose in pain; otherwise it were devilish.
Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.
Pain addeth zest unto pleasure, and teacheth the luxury of health.
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow.
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters,—pain and pleasure.
Pain is the deepest thing we have in our nature, and union through pain has always seemed more real and holy than any other.
Phychical pain is more easily borne than physical; and if I had my choice between a bad conscience and a bad tooth, I should choose the former.
God has scattered several degrees of pleasure and pain in all the things that environ and affect us, and blended them together in almost all our thoughts.
The most painful part of our bodily pain is that which is bodiless or immaterial,—namely, our impatience, and the delusion that it will last forever.
Pain itself is not without its alleviations. It may be violent and frequent, but it is seldom both violent and long-continued; and its pauses and intermissions become positive pleasures. It has the power of shedding a satisfaction over intervals of ease, which, I believe, few enjoyments exceed.
The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body is hurt; but in their case the cruelty of torment is greater, because they have no mind to bear them up against their sufferings, and no hope to look forward to when enduring the last extreme pain. Their happiness consists entirely in present enjoyment.