O Woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

-Scott, Sir Walter
  Marmion, canto 6, stanza 30.

The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists: Beauty and Happiness'.

We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught: Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  'To a Skylark', stanza18.

It doth repent me: words are quick and vain: Grief for a while is blind, and so was mine. I wish no living thing to suffer pain.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  Prometheus Unbound, act1, l.303^5.

   Loving in truth, and vain in verse my love to show, That she (dear she) mighttake some pleasure of my pain, Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know; Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace obtain.

-Shute, Nevil originally Nevil Shute Norway
Astrophel and Stella, sonnet1.

Yet never can he die, but dying lives, And doth himself with sorrow new sustain, That death and life attonce unto him gives, And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.

-Spenser, Edmund
  The Faerie Queen, bk.3, canto10, stanza 60.

NempeAmor nihil aliud est, quam Laeititia concomitante idea causae externae; et Odium nihil aliud est, quamTristitia concomitante idea causae externae. Love is nothing else than pleasure accompanied by the idea of anexternal cause; and hatepainaccompanied by the idea of an external cause.

-Spinoza, Baruch also known as Benedict de Spinoza
  Ethics, bk.3, prop.13, note.

   When Jesus came to Birmingham they simply passed Him by, They never hurt a hair of him, they only let Him die. For menhadgrownmoretenderandthey wouldnot give Him pain, Theyonlyjust passeddownthestreet, and left Himinthe rain.

-'Woodbine Willie'
Peace Rhymes of a Padre,'Indifference'.

Alas! so all things now do hold their peace, Heaven and earth disturbed in no thing† Calm is the sea, the waves work less and less; So am not I whom love, alas, doth wring, Bringing before my face the great increase Of my desires, whereat I weep and sing, In joy and woe, as in a doubtful ease. For my sweet thoughts sometime do pleasure bring, But by and by the cause of my disease Gives me a pang that inwardly doth sting, When that I think what grief it is again To live and lack the thing should rid my pain.

-Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of
  'Alas! so all things now do hold their peace'.

When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain; And the brown bright nightingale amorous Is half assured for Itylus, For theThracian ships and the foreign faces, The tongueless vigil and all the pain.

-Swinburne, Algernon Charles
  Atlanta in Calydon, chorus,'When the hounds of spring'.

Superflux of pain.

-Swinburne, Algernon Charles
  Poems and Ballads,'Anactoria'

O splendid and sterile Dolores, Our Lady of Pain.

-Swinburne, Algernon Charles
  Poems and Ballads,'Dolores', stanza 9.

I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; The Princess For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.

-Tennyson
  In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 5, l.1^8.

O that 'twere possible After long grief and pain To find the arms of my true love Round me once again!

-Tennyson
  Maud, pt.2, sect.4, stanza1, l.141^4.

Passionless bride, divineTranquillity, Yearned after by the wisest of the wise, Who fail to find thee, being as thou art Without one pleasure and without one pain.

-Tennyson
  'Lucretius',1.265^8.

Her fist of a face died clenched on a round pain; And sculptured Ann is seventy years of stone.

-Thomas, Dylan Marlais
  'After the Funeral'.

But we live like our names and you would have to be colonial to know the difference, to know the pain of history words contain.

-Walcott, Derek Alton
  The Star-Apple Kingdom,'The Schooner Flight', pt.6.

The process of learning is accompanied by alternations of pain and brief quickenings that resemble pain.

-Wilder,Thornton Niven
  The Eighth Day.

Even so for me a vision sanctified The sway of death; long ere my eyes had seen Thy countenanceöthe still rapture of thy mienö When thou, dear Sister! wert become death's bride: No trace of pain or languor could abide That changeöage on thy brow was smoothedöthy cold Wan cheek at once was privileged to unfold A loveliness to living youth denied. Oh! if within me hope should e'er decline, The lamp of faith, lost Friend! too faintly burn; The may that heaven-revealing smile of thine, The bright assurance, visibly return: And let my spirit in that power divine Rejoice, as, through that power, it ceased to mourn.

-Wordsworth,William
  'November1836', complete poem (published1837).