People fear death even more than pain.  It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death.  At the point of death, the pain is over.
    -- Jim Morrison

Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and the suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.
-- A.S. Byatt

The pain now is part of the happiness then.
-- C. S. Lewis