Through pain, we often find joy. This insight comes from the biography of Romain Rolland.
Pascal believed that a person's sublimity stems from recognizing one's own suffering.
Byron noted that all pain has the power to destroy, yet those who suffer can also destroy that pain.
Musset observed that transient pain may lead one to blaspheme or slander Heaven; profound pain, however, does neither—it merely teaches one to accept fate.
Romain Rolland stated that an attitude of inhumanity born of pain is actually very human—perhaps excessively so.
As written in 'Tagore's Family,' pain is essential in life, for it is only in the flames of sorrow that one recognizes the deeper, eternal self.
Alexis noted that true pain is what people endure in silence, refusing the pity or comfort of others.
Margin argued that the greatest pain is that which cannot be spoken to another.
Romain Rolland also suggested that perhaps the hardest pain to bear is the desire to do something and yet not doing it.