pain Quotes

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.