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William Shakespeare Quotes about Pain

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Pain pays the income of each precious thing.

Pain pays the income of each precious thing.

William Shakespeare
Pain, Income, Pay
William Shakespeare, Colin Burrow (2002). “The Complete Sonnets and Poems”, p.262, Oxford University Press on Demand

Take pains. Be perfect.

William Shakespeare
Pain, Halloween, Perfect
William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, William Watkiss Lloyd, John Thompson, Thomas Stothard (1856). “Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour's lost. Midsummer-night's dream. Merchant of Venice”, p.350

one pain is cured by another. catch some new infection in your eye and the poison of the old one would die.

William Shakespeare
Pain, Eye, Poison

Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain. And truly not the morning sun of heaven Better becomes the grey cheeks of the east, Nor that full star that ushers in the even, Doth half that glory to the sober west, As those two mourning eyes become thy face: O! let it then as well beseem thy heart To mourn for me since mourning doth thee grace, And suit thy pity like in every part. Then will I swear beauty herself is black, And all they foul that thy complexion lack

William Shakespeare
Morning, Stars, Pain
William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing

Preposterous ass, that never read so far to know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of man, after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare
Music, Pain, Men
1593 Lucentio to Hortensio.TheTaming of the Shrew, act 3, sc.1, l.9-12.

Thine eyes I love, and they as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black, and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain.

William Shakespeare
Sad, Pain, Heart
William Shakespeare (1858). “Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems”, p.648

They say, the tongues of dying men Enforce attention, like deep harmony; Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain; For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare
Pain, Men, Dying
William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.242, Cengage Learning EMEA

Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain.

William Shakespeare
Wise, Art, Pain
William Shakespeare (2013). “Sonnets”, p.140, Pushkin Press

O, but they say, the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain: for they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain. he, that no more must say, is listened more than they whom youth and ease have taught to gloze; more are men's ends marked, than their lives before: the setting sun, and music at the close, as the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last; writ in rememberance more than things long past

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Pain, Past
William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.242, Cengage Learning EMEA

On pain of death, no person be so bold.

William Shakespeare
Death, Pain, Persons
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.341

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry. But were we burd'ned with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain: So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee, With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me; But if thou live to see like right bereft, This fool-begged patience in thee will be left.

William Shakespeare
Pain, Adversity, Grieving
William Shakespeare, Alfred Harbage (1977). “The complete works”

Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish.

William Shakespeare
Pain, Grief, Men
William Shakespeare (2009). “CliffsComplete Romeo and Juliet”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

O, this life Is nobler than attending for a check, Richer than doing nothing for a robe, Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk: Such pain the cap of him that makes him fine Yet keeps his book uncrossed.

William Shakespeare
Pain, Book, Pride

Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain: As, painfully to pore upon a book, To seek the light of truth, which truth the while Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look.

William Shakespeare
Pain, Book, Light
William Shakespeare, H. R. Woudhuysen (1998). “Love's Labour's Lost: Third Series”, p.117, Cengage Learning EMEA

A Devil, a born Devil on whose nature, nurture can never stick, on whom my pain, humanly taken, all lost, quite lost.

William Shakespeare
Pain, Taken, Devil
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1765). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Sam Johnson”, p.69

Beauty's a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish'd once, for ever's lost, In spite of physic, painting, pain, and cost.

William Shakespeare
Beauty, Beautiful, Pain

Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner. BENEDICK Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains. BEATRICE I took no more pains for those thanks than you take pains to thank me: if it had been painful, I would not have come. BENEDICK You take pleasure then in the message? BEATRICE Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife's point ... You have no stomach, signior: fare you well. Exit BENEDICK Ha! 'Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner;' there's a double meaning in that... (Much Ado About Nothing)

William Shakespeare
Pain, Knives, May
William Shakespeare (1998). “Much Ado About Nothing”, p.85, Penguin

One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.

William Shakespeare
Pain, Fire, Burning
William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.36, Classic Books Company

The labor we delight in physics [cures] pain.

William Shakespeare
Pain, Work, Delight

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with light weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.

William Shakespeare
Pain, Adversity, Light
William Shakespeare, William Dodd (1854). “The Beauties of Shakespeare. [By W. Dodd.]”, p.19

One pain is lessened by another's anguish.

William Shakespeare
Pain, Anguish
William Shakespeare, Janie B. Yates-Glandorf (2003). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.46, Perfection Learning

Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain.

William Shakespeare
Pain, Delight, Vain
William Shakespeare (2015). “Peines d’amour perdues”, p.38, Editions Gallimard

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