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William Hazlitt Quotes about Pain

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Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.

Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.

William Hazlitt
Pain, Power, Pleasure
William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.139

The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

William Hazlitt
Pain, Giving, Littles

Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust. Hatred alone is immortal.

William Hazlitt
Pain, Hate, Hatred
William Hazlitt (1826). “The plain speaker: opinions on books, men, and things [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.309

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

William Hazlitt
Life, Success, Pain
William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.101

Most of the methods for measuring the lapse of time have, I believe, been the contrivance of monks and religious recluses, who, finding time hang heavy on their hands, were at some pains to see how they got rid of it.

William Hazlitt
Religious, Time, Pain
William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.69

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.

William Hazlitt
Pain, Giving, Bears
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1360, Delphi Classics

There is evil poured upon the earth from the overflowings of corruption-- Sickness, and poverty, and pain, and guilt, and madness, and sorrow; But, as the water from a fountain riseth and sinketh to its level, Ceaselessly toileth justice to equalize the lots of men.

William Hazlitt
Pain, Men, Justice

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