John Dryden Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

• Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

  John Dryden

  Love, Life, Breakup

  'Tyrannic Love' (1669) act 4, sc. 1

• Sweet is pleasure after pain.

  John Dryden

  Sweet, Pain, Pleasure

  'Alexander's Feast' (1697) l. 57

• For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

  John Dryden

  Happiness, Pain, Gains

  'The Indian Emperor' (1665) act 4, sc. 1

• Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,- Sweet is pleasure after pain.

  John Dryden

  Sweet, Pain, Treasure

  'Alexander's Feast' (1697) l. 57

• How happy the lover,
  How easy his chain,
  How pleasing his pain,
  How sweet to discover
  He sighs not in vain.

  John Dryden

  Life, Sweet, Pain

  John Dryden (1762). “The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: In Six Volumes”, p.372

• Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure, Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure- Sweet is pleasure after pain.

  John Dryden

  Sweet, Pain, Drinking

  'Alexander's Feast' (1697) l. 57

• Ah, how sweet it is to love! Ah, how gay is young Desire! And what pleasing pains we prove When we first approach Love's fire!

  John Dryden

  Love, Sweet, Pain

  John Dryden (1808). “Sir Martin Mar-All. The tempest. An evening's love. Tyrannic love”, p.393

• Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.

  John Dryden

  Pain, Long, Use

  John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes”, p.123

• But dying is a pleasure / When living is a pain.

  John Dryden

  Pain, Dying, Pleasure

  John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author”, p.465

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