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

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

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Even Pain pricks to livelier living.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

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

Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

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

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.