3930. Aquinas, Thomas. ... 3930 Pain itself can be pleasurable accidentally in so far as it is accompanied by wonder, as in stage-plays; or in so far as it recalls a beloved...

2) 9633. Byatt, A.S. (Antonia Susan). ... 9633 Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend...

3) 16506. Dickinson, Emily. ... 16506 Pain has an element of blank—

4) 65199. Wolf, Naomi. ... 65199 Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.

5) 49012. Seneca. ... 49012 Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail....

6) 55222. Stark, Freya. ... 55222 Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.

7) 14508. Cooley, Mason. ... 14508 Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.

8) 56920. Syrus, Publilius. ... 56920 Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

9) 9539. Butler, Samuel. ... 9539 Pain and pleasure are infectious. It depresses us to be much with those who have suffered long and are still suffering; it refreshes us to...

10) 42504. Nietzsche, Friedrich. ... 42504 Pain makes hens and poets cackle.