Walter Scott Quotes about Pain

All Walter Scott Quotes Adversity Age Ambition Art Character Childhood Children Christmas Country Courage Death Doubt Dying Earth Evil Fate Fear Fighting Friendship Glory Gold Grace Greatness Heart Heaven Hope Imagination Inspiration Inspirational Joy Life Loss Love Lying Morning Nature Pain quotes Philanthropy Pleasure Pride Religion Revenge Sleep Sorrow Soul Spring Success Summer Time Truth Virtue War Warrior Water Wealth Wine

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!

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!

Walter Scott

Pain, Angel, Light

Marmion canto 6, st. 30 (1808) See Shakespeare 228

Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, baneful, when habitually and constantly resorted to, but of most blessed power in those moments of pain and of langour, when the whole head is sore, and the whole heart sick. If those who rail indiscriminately at this species of composition, were to consider the quantity of actual pleasure it produces, and the much greater proportion of real sorrow and distress which it alleviates, their philanthropy ought to moderate their critical pride, or religious intolerance.

Walter Scott

Religious, Pain, Real

Sir Walter Scott (1829). “The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Biographical and critical notices of eminent novelists”, p.256

Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.

Walter Scott

Life, Pain, Suits

Sir Walter Scott (1866). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott”, p.102

Each must drain His share of pleasure, share of pain.

Walter Scott

Pain, Pleasure, Share

Sir Walter Scott (1873). “Poetical Works”, p.88

Alas!... what is it, valiant knight, save an offering of sacrifice to a demon of vain glory, and a passing through the fire of Moloch? What remains to you as a prize of all the blood you have spilled, of all the travail and pain you have endured, of all the tears which your deeds have caused, when death hath broken the strong man's spear, and overtaken the speed of his war-horse?

Walter Scott

Strong, Horse, Pain

Walter Scott (2015). “Heroes of the Scottish Highlands: Ivanhoe, Waverley and Rob Roy (3 Unabridged Illustrated Classics): Historical Novels from the Author of The Pirate, The Heart of Midlothian, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, The Bride of Lammermoor and Anne of Geierstein”, p.261, e-artnow

Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.

Walter Scott

Pain, Light, Dazzle

Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.415