Detested sport, That owes its pleasure to another's pain.

-Cowper,William
  Of hunting. The Task, bk.3,'The Garden', l.326^7.

   Dichoso el a¤  rbol que es apenas sensitivo, y ma¤  s la piedra dura porque e¤  sa ya no siente, pues no hay dolor ma¤  s grande que el dolor de ser vivo, ni mayor pesadumbre que la vida consciente. Blessed is the almost insensitive tree, more blessed is the hard stone that doesn't feel, for no pain isgreater than the pain of being alive, and no sorrow more intense than conscious life.

-Dar|¤  o, Rube¤  n pseudonym of Fe¤  lixRube¤  nGarc|¤a Sarmiento
Cantos de vida y esperanza,'Lo fatal' ('Fatalism').

Nessun maggior dolore, Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery. 252

-Dante Alighieri originally Durante
c.1320  Divina Commedia,'Inferno', canto 5, l.121^3.

I know my life's a pain and but a span, I know my sense is mocked in every thing; And to conclude, I know myself a man, Which is a proud and yet a wretched thing.

-Davies, SirJohn
  Nosce Teipsum, stanza 45.

After great pain, a formal feeling comesö The Nerves sit ceremonious, likeTombs.

-Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth
c.1862  Complete Poems, no.341 (first published1929).

For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

-Dryden,John
  The Indian Emperor, act 4, sc.1.

Drinking is the soldier's pleasure; Rich the treasure; Sweet the pleasure; Sweet is pleasure after pain.

-Dryden,John
  Alexander's Feast, l.57^60.

Forasmuch as there isgreat noise in the city caused by hustling over large balls, from which many evils may arise, which God forbid, we command and forbid on behalf of the King, on pain of imprisonment, such game to be used in the city in future.

-Edward II
  Royal proclamation, banning football from the streets of London.

No foteball player be used or suffered within the City of London and the liberties thereof upon pain of imprisonment.

-Elizabeth I
  Royal proclamation, banning football from the streets of London.

Half to forget the wandering and pain, Half to remember days that have gone by, And dream and dream that I am home again!

-Flecker,James Elroy
  'Brumana'.

   You define your own horror journey, according to your taste. My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom. Add discomfort, fatigue, strain in large amounts to get the purest-quality horror, but the kernel is boredom. I offer that as a universal test of travel; boredom, called byanyother name, iswhy you yearn for the first available transport out.But what bores whom?† The threshold of boredom must be like the threshold of pain, different in all of us.

-Gellhorn, Martha Ellis
  Travels with Myself and  Another.

Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled fondly turns to thee; Still to my brother turns with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.

-Goldsmith, Oliver
  The Traveller, l.7^10.

To each his suff'rings, all are men, Condemned alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, Th'unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should they know their fate? Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies. Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

-Gray,Thomas
  Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College (published1747), l.91^100.

In buskined measures move Pale Grief and pleasing Pain, With Horror, tyrant of the throbbing breast.

-Gray,Thomas
  The Bard.  A Pindaric Ode, l.128^30.

  Never let success hide its emptiness from you; achievement its nothingness; toil its desolation. Keep alivetheincentivetopushonfurther, that pain inthesoul that drives us beyond ourselves. Do not look back, and do not dream about the future either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward, your destiny are here and now.

-Hammarskjo«  ld, Dag HjalmarAgne Carl
Va«  gmarken (translated by L Sjsy«  berg and W H  Auden as Markings,1964).

She whose youth had seemed to teach that happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

-Hardy,Thomas
  The Mayor of Casterbridge, ch.45.

Louers be war and tak gude heid about Quhome that ye lufe, for quhome ye suffer paine. I lat yow wit, thair is richt few thairout Quhome ye may traist to haue trew lufe agane.

-Henryson, Robert
c.1470  The Testament of Cresseid, l.561^4.

Si vis me flere, dolendum est Primum ipse tibi. If you wish me to shed tears you must first feel pain yourself.

-Horace full name  Quintus Horatius Flaccus   65
Ars Poetica, l.102^3.

   For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception orother, of heat orcold, light or shade, pain or pleasure.I nevercan catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.

-Hume, David
  A  Treatise of Human Nature, bk.1, pt.4, section 6.

   He isstrong and pain isworseto thestrong, incapacity is worse.

-Jeffers, (John) Robinson
  Cawdor,'Hurt Hawks'.