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Quotes About Pain

For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?
~ Aeschylus
Trouble, with its memories of pain, drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, so men against their will learn to practice moderation.
~ Aeschylus
When deep slumber falls, remembered sins Chafe the sore heart with fresh pain, and no Welcome wisdom meets within.
~ Aeschylus
Alas, I am struck a deep mortal blow!
~ Aeschylus
Do not kick against the pricks.
~ Aeschylus
Death is easier than a wretched life and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
~ Aeschylus
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.
~ Aeschylus
The memory of pain falls drop by drop upon our heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
~ Aeschylus
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
There is adantage in the wisdom won from pain
~ Aeschylus
Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.
~ Aeschylus
Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain, Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, So men against their will Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.
~ Aeschylus
Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain
~ Aeschylus
For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.
~ Aeschylus
There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
~ Aeschylus
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
~ Aeschylus
Suffering brings experience.
~ Aeschylus
PROMETHEUS: 'Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers
~ Aeschylus
Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most
~ Aesop
Those who suffer most cry out the least.
~ Aesop
Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.
~ Agatha Christie
If suicide is your idea of escape from trouble then it doesn't very much matter what the trouble is.
~ Agatha Christie
A man in love is a sorry spectacle.
~ Agatha Christie
The hardest thing in life and the hardest to live through is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering. You can do things to aid people's physical disabilities; but you can do little to help the pain of the heart.
~ Agatha Christie