"World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Pain is no evil unless it conquers us." - George Eliot

"The art of life is the art of avoiding pain." - Thomas Jefferson

"The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm." - Samuel Johnson

"You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live." - Alexander Pope

"Nothing begins, and nothing ends, that is not paid with moan; for we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own." - Francis Thompson

"I make myself laugh at everything, in case I should have to weep." - Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augutin de (1732-1799)

"Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other `sins' are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is 'not' a sin--just stupid.)" - Heinlein, Robert A. (1907-1988) from 'Time Enough For Love'

"Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run." - Lombardi, Vince (1913-1970)

"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire." - Nixon, Richard Milhous

"Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have it." - John Selden 1584-1654

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." - Unknown

"What a distance runner learns to do is deal with pain. Learning to deal with pain is learning to deal with life." - Unknown

"To banish cares, scare away sorrow and soothe pain is the business of the poet and singer." - Bodenstedt

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

"All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief." - Marcus T. Cicero

"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man." - Samuel Johnson

"There is no coming to consciousness without pain." - Carl Jung

"Even Pain pricks to livelier living." - Amy Lowell

"The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain." - Karl Marx

"When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same." -Toni Morrison

"Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic." -Cesare Pavese

"No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown." - William Penn

"We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment." - Jim Rohn

"Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain." - Lord Alfred Tennyson

"Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain and perish in our own." - Francis Thompson

"The longer the life the more the offense, the more the offense the more the pain, the more the pain the less defense and the less defense the less the gain." - Sir T. Wyatt

"Thank you for showing me my pain... you've made me what I am" - Ash from "The Crow: City of Angels"

"Life IS pain your highness. Anyone that tells you otherwise is selling you something." - The Dread Pirate Roberst from "The Princess Bride"

"You have no power anymore, there's nothing but pain for you."
"Pain is my power" - Judah and Ash from "The Crow: City of angels"