Quotes by Pain Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from another man's side staunch that which is pouring from our own? Does the general anguish of our fellow creatures lessen our own private and particular anguish? No, no, each suffers on his own account, each struggles with his own grief, each sheds his own tears. Alexandre Dumas pain grief struggle Pain, thou art not an evil Alexandre Dumas pain evil art One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it. Alexandre Dumas pain believe Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit of self-sacrifice. Alexis de Tocqueville sacrifice pain life Pain can be washed out with a song. / Pain can become jazz digested and transformed. Alexis De Veaux jazz pain song I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do. Alexis Korner pain want people How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception. Alfred de Musset pain humorous wisdom Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher. Alfred de Musset pain teacher men It was one of those somber evenings when the sighing of the wind resembles the moans of a dying man; a storm was brewing, and between the splashes of rain on the windows there was the silence of death. All nature suffers in such moments; the trees writhe in pain and twist their heads; the birds of the fields cower under the bushes; the streets of cities are deserted. Alfred de Musset pain rain men Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain. Alfred Lord Tennyson pain sweet love Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again Alfred Lord Tennyson true-love pain grief The still affection of the heart Became an outward breathing type, That into stillness past again, And left a want unknown before; Although the loss had brought us pain, That loss but made us love the more. Alfred Lord Tennyson pain loss heart Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every peopled sphere? Alfred Lord Tennyson grateful pain people I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain A use measured language lie's The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotic's, numbing pain In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er Like coarsest clothes against the cold But large grief which these enfold Is given in outline and no more. Alfred Lord Tennyson weed pain lying But for the unquiet heart and brain Alfred Lord Tennyson pain heart lying The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience. Alfred North Whitehead optimism pain religious If you were Queen of pleasure And I were King of pain We'd hunt down Love together, Pluck out his flying-feather, And teach his feet a measure, And find his mouth a rein; If you were Queen of pleasure And I were King of pain. Algernon Charles Swinburne pain queens kings Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran, Pleasure with pain for leaven, Summer with flowers that fell, Remembrance fallen from heaven, And Madness risen from hell, Strength without hands to smite, Love that endures for a breath; Night, the shadow of light, And Life, the shadow of death. Algernon Charles Swinburne pain summer life The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty ... a man with no loyalty in him, with no sense of love or reverence or devotion due to something outside and above his poor daily life, with its pains and pleasures, profits and losses, is as evil a case as man can be. Algernon Charles Swinburne pain loyalty spiritual Patience is of two kinds: patience over what pains you, and patience against what you covet. Ali ibn Abi Talib islamic pain wisdom «678910111213141516»