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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.

Pain is a beautiful thing. When you feel pain, you know you're alive.

Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

Suffering is a kind of ecstasy in a way. Having pain all the time makes me terribly, terribly grateful for every moment I've got.

I have been blessed with a good, fun, and wonderful life, but I've also seen a whole lot of pain.

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

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.