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Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.

If you took away all pain, if everyone lived forever, everything would be bland, flat and boring; there would be no reason for art, music, newspapers, love because we would all be in a mono state of happiness.

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

I think I'd like to be able to heal people's pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever.