There was a faith-healer of Deal Who said,'Although pain isn't real, If I sit on a pin 22 And it punctures my skin, I dislike what I fancy I feel.'

-Anonymous
Collected in The Week-End Book (1925).

No painöno gain.

-Anonymous
Bodybuilding motto. The catchphrase may have had its origins in  Adlai Stevenson's slogan'There are no gains without pain', first voiced when accepting the Democratic nomination in1952.

Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine. Et nos amours, faut-il qu'il m'en souvienne? La joie venait toujours apre'  s la peine. Under Mirabeau Bridge flows the Seine. And our loves, must I remember them? Joy always came after pain.

-Kostrowitzki
  Les  Alcools,'Le Pont Mirabeau'.

Hark! ah, the Nightingale! The tawny-throated! Hark! from that moonlit cedar what a burst! What triumph! harköwhat pain!

-Arnold, Matthew
  Poems:  A New Edition,'Philomela', l.1^4.

Eternal Passion! Eternal Pain!

-Arnold, Matthew
  Poems:  A New Edition,'Philomela', l.31^2.

Je sais la douleur est la noblesse unique O  u' ne mordront jamais la terre et les enfers. I know that pain is the one nobility upon which Hell itself cannot encroach.

-Baudelaire, Charles
  Les Fleurs du mal,'Be¤  ne¤  diction' (translated by Richard Howard,1982).

O douleur! o"   douleur! LeTemps mange ma vie. Oh pain! Oh pain! time is eating away my life.

-Baudelaire, Charles
  Les Fleurs du mal,'L'Ennemi'.

Je n'e¤  cris point d'amour, n'estant point amoureux, Je n'e¤  cris de beaute¤  , n'aiant belle maistresse, Je n'e¤  cris de douceur, n'esprouvant que rudesse, Je n'e¤  cris de plaisir, me trouvant douloureux. I cannot write of love, as I am not in love, I cannot write of beauty, as I have no beautiful mistress, I cannot write of sweetness, as I experience nothing but hardship, I cannot write of pleasure, as I am always in pain.

-Bellay,Joachim du
  Les Regrets, no.79.

Le parfum de mille roses ne pla|"t qu'un instant; mais la douleur que cause une seule de leurs e¤  pines dure longtemps apre'  s la piq u" re. The perfume of a thousand roses pleases only for an instant; but the pain caused bya single one of their thorns lasts a long time after the prick.

-Bernardin de Saint-Pierre,Jacques-Henri
  Paul et Virginie.

For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Romans 8:22.

And God shall wipe awayall tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, norcrying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said,Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation 21:4^5.

   I am floated along, as if I should die Of Liberty's exquisite pain.

-Browning, Elizabeth ne¤  e Barrett
  'The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point', stanza 36.

I never saw a brute I hated so; He must be wicked to deserve such pain.

-Browning, Robert
  Men and Women,'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'.

Only I discernö Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.

-Browning, Robert
  Men and Women,'Two in the Campagna'.

There is no event so commonplace but that God is present in it, alwayshiddenly, alwaysleaving you roomto recognize him or not to recognize him† Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the heavenlyand hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.

-Buechner, (Carl) Frederick
  Now and Then.

But I have lived, and have not lived in vain: My mind may loose its force, my blood its fire, And my frame perish even in conquering pain; But there is that within me which shall tire Torture and Time, and breathe when I expire. Something unearthly, which they deem not of, Like the remembered tone of a mute lyre, Shall on their softened spirits sink, and move In hearts all rocky now the late remorse of love.

-Rochdale
^18  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 4, stanza137.

Give me more love or more disdain; The torrid or the frozen zone: Bring equal ease unto my pain; The temperate affords me none.

-Carew,Thomas
  'Mediocrity in Love Rejected'.

Myth deals in false universals, to dull the pain of particular circumstances.

-Carter, Angela Olive
  The Sadeian Woman,'Polemical Preface'.

Odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. nescio sed fieri sentio et excrucior. I hate and I love.You ask me to explain, perhaps. I don't know.But I feel it happen and the pain is dreadful.

-Catullus full name  Gaius Valerius Catullus
Carmina, no.85.

   Those sounds which oft have raised me, whilst they awed, And sent my soul abroad, Might now perhaps their wonted impulse give, Might startle this dull pain, and make it move and live!

-Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
  'Dejection:  An Ode', stanza1.