Laurence Sterne Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

• Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

  Laurence Sterne

  Success, Pain, Light

  Laurence Sterne (1860). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters, Etc”, p.573

• The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.

  Laurence Sterne

  Pain, History, Soldier

  Laurence Sterne (2013). “3 Books by Laurence Sterne”, p.62, eBookIt.com

• Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other; and he that knows how to accommodate himself to their periodical returns, and can wisely extract the good from the evil, knows only how to live: this is true contentment, at least all that is to be had of it in this world; and for this every man must be indebted not to his fortune, but to himself.

  Laurence Sterne

  Gratitude, Pain, Light

  "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy: Gentleman & A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy".

• When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.

  Laurence Sterne

  Pain, Heart, Judging

  Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New, Geoffrey Day (2006). “A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy: And, Continuation of the Bramine's Journal : with Related Texts”, p.22, Hackett Publishing

• I am persuaded ... that both man and woman bear pain or sorrow, (and, for aught I know, pleasure too) best in a horizontal position.

  Laurence Sterne

  Pain, Men, Sorrow

  Laurence Sterne, Thomas Stothard (1867). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. And A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy ... With Life of the Author by Sir Walter Scott, Portrait, and Outline Wood Engravings After Thomas Stothard”, p.140

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