A little bit of pain is good for you. I feel alive. Everybody needs struggle. Once you overcome an obstacle, you springboard into the future. Life is interesting and short and it's not supposed to be easy, and if it is, you're probably just in denial and you're existing here like a zombie.
- Sweet is pleasure after pain.
JOHN DRYDEN, Alexander's Feast
The power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.
ORSON SCOTT CARD, Ender's Game
Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain.... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods.
MARIA EDGEWORTH, The Flowerpot
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
JOSÉ ORTEGA Y GASSET, as quoted in Jason A. Merchey's Building a Life of Value
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, Tender is the Night
Pain is rewarding, in every capacity.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA, Rolling Stone, Aug. 24, 2006
- I hate all pain,
- Given or received; we have enough within us
- The meanest vassal as the loftiest monarch,
- Not to add to each other's natural burden
- Of mortal misery.
- One word
- Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
- That word is love.
SOPHOCLES, Oedipus at Colonus
