Quotes about Pain
Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return.
— Oscar Wilde
The life that was to make his soul would mar his body.
— Oscar Wilde
From your silken hair to your delicate feet you are perfection to me. Pleasure hides love from us, but pain reveals it in its essence.
— Oscar Wilde
out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star, there is pain
— Oscar Wilde
They take their punishment so well, so cheerfully: I go out with an adder in my heart, and an asp in my tongue, and every night I sow thorns in the garden of my soul.
— Oscar Wilde
There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.
— Oscar Wilde
I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.
— Oscar Wilde
As the door closed behind them, the painter flung himself down on a sofa, and a look of pain came into his face.
— Oscar Wilde
I often wonder what would have happened to those in pain if, instead of Christ, there had been a Christian.
— Oscar Wilde
Even when one has been wounded by it, Harry? asked the duchess after a pause. Especially when one has been wounded by it, answered Lord Henry.
— Oscar Wilde
I suffered immensely. Then it passed away. I cannot repeat an emotion. No one can, except sentimentalists.
— Oscar Wilde
if you are a chronic worrier, you may be stricken some day with one of the most excruciating pains ever endured by man: angina pectoris.
— Dale Carnegie