Robert Browning Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

• For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall change, shall become first a peace out of pain, Then a light, then thy breast, O thou soul of my soul! I shall clasp thee again, And with God be the rest!

  Robert Browning

  Pain, Light, Voice

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.497, Wordsworth Editions

• Say not "a small event!" Why "small"? Costs it more pain that this ye call A "great event" should come to pass From that? Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed!

  Robert Browning

  Life, Pain, Fall

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.167, Wordsworth Editions

• Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!

  Robert Browning

  Pain, Learning, Joy

  Robert Browning (2007). “Poems by Robert Browning (Student Edition)”, p.122, Wildside Press LLC

• Believeth with the life, the pain shall stop.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Pain

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.495, Wordsworth Editions

• No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers,
  The heroes of old,
  Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears
  Of pain, darkness and cold.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Pain, Hero

  'Prospice' (1864)

• Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain

  Robert Browning

  Pain, Past, Succeed

  Robert Browning (2008). “The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.”, p.60, Wildside Press LLC

• That moment she was mine, mine, fair, Perfectly pure and good: I found A thing to do, and all her hair In one long yellow string I wound Three times her little throat around, And strangled her. No pain felt she; I am quite sure she felt no pain. As a shut bud that holds a bee, I warily oped her lids: again Laughed the blue eyes without a stain. And I untightened the next tress About her neck; her cheek once more Blushed bright beneath my burning kiss . . .

  Robert Browning

  Pain, Eye, Kissing

  'Porphyria's Lover' (1842) l. 38

• I dare not so honor my mere wishes and prayers as to put them for a moment beside your noble acts; but this know, I would rather submit to the worst of deaths, so far as pain goes, than have a single dog or cat tortured on the pretence of sparing me a twinge or two.

  Robert Browning

  Dog, Pain, Cat

  "The Complete Works of Robert Browning: The Agamemnon of Æschylus, La Saisiaz, etc".

• Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.

  Robert Browning

  Pain, Passion, Heart

  'Two in the Campagna' (1855) st. 12

• A pretty woman's worth some pains to see.

  Robert Browning

  Pain, Pretty Woman, Attractiveness

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.295, Wordsworth Editions

• When pain ends, gain ends too.

  Robert Browning

  Pain, Gains, Ends

  Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.341

• A pretty woman's worth some pains to see,
  Nor is she spoiled, I take it, if a crown
  Completes the forehead pale and tresses pure.

  Robert Browning

  Pain, Women, Pretty Woman

  Robert Browning (1863). “Paracelsus. Pippa passes. King Victor and King Charles. Colombe's birthday”, p.316

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