Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

God gave us pain to remind us we are alive, so we will learn to value the joys and beauty of the world.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Men are more sensitive to pain than to pleasures.

The greatest pain that comes from love is loving someone you can never have.

Pain is what the world inflicts upon us. Suffering is our emotional reaction when we fail to make the difficult conscious choice to choose Joy.