Quotes About Pain

The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.

Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.

Pain and happiness are simply conditions of the ego. Forget the ego.

If you can't share wealth, prosperity and happiness, then you must at least share suffering, pain and death. To destroy in order to create!

you cannot let the pain of the past destroy the happiness of the future.

Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.

one would suffer a great deal to be happy.

No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.

Even while you're in pain, your happiness will be waiting

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.

Envy hurt exponentially more than heartbreak because your soul was torn in two, half soaring with happiness for another person, half mired in a well of selfpity and pain.

Of course, not all desires lead to happiness. Desires can and do lead to pain and frustration.

Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.

It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.

You don't worry about happiness and fulfilment when you're starving.

Happiness is the moment when one doesn't feel pain.

You have to learn to smile through your pain. Sometimes it's all we got.

Where there is a mind, there are feelings such as pain, pleasure, and joy. No sentient being wants pain: all wants happiness instead.

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delights of presence best known by the torments of absence.

Je tiefer sich das Leid in euer Sein eingräbt, desto mehr Freude könnt ihr fassen.

Happiness is just like a glacier-the visible one eighth tip sitting on seven eighth mass of pain and suffering under the surface