Edward Young Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

• Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!

  Edward Young

  Pain, Leisure, Wheels

  Edward Young (1866). “The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life”, p.15

• A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

  Edward Young

  Pain, Men, Literature

  Edward Young (1795). “The Complaint Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality, to which are Added a Glossary, a Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job, and a Poem on the Last Day”, p.239

• To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain.

  Edward Young

  Pain, Pleasure

  Edward Young (1866). “The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life”, p.163

• When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.

  Edward Young

  Pain, Heaven, Despair

  William Danby, Edward Young (1832). “Extracts from Young's Night thoughts, with observations upon them”, p.102

• Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs.

  Edward Young

  Pain, Soul, Comfort

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1803). “Night Thoughts ... With notes ... by the Rev. C. E. de Coetlogon ... To which are added the author's poem on the Last Day, the paraphrase on part of the Book of Job [with other poems], and his life”, p.172

• As in smooth oil the razor best is whet, So wit is by politeness sharpest set; Their want of edge from their offence is seen, Both pain us least when exquisitely keen.

  Edward Young

  Pain, Oil, Razors

  Edward Young, John Doran, James Nichols (1854). “The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author”, p.358

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