That which is escaped now is pain to come. – Proverb
Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain? – Aeschylus
The injuries we do and the injuries we suffer are seldom weighed on the same scales. – Aesop
The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain. – Henry Ward Beecher
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be nor more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain. Revelation – Bible
To banish cares, scare away sorrow and soothe pain is the business of the poet and singer. – Bodenstedt
There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is. – Bill Bradley
Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign. – William Cullen Bryant
All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are. – John Dryden
Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself. – Havelock Ellis
There are no gains without pains. – Benjamin Franklin
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. – Kahlil Gibran
The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings. – William Hazlitt
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset. – Thomas Jefferson
Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain. – Samuel Johnson
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. – Samuel Johnson
Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression. – Samuel Johnson
