The pangs of despised love. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III. Sc.1 ]

Can by their pangs and aches find
All turns and changes of the wind. [ Butler ]

Life counts not hours by joys or pangs;
But just by duties done. [ Dinah Muloch Craik ]

Our dearest hopes in pangs are born,
The kingliest Kings are crown'd with thorn. [ Gerald Massey, The Kingliest Kings ]

High minds, of native pride and force.
Most deeply feel thy pangs. Remorse!
Fear, for their scourge, mean villains have,
Thou art the torturer of the brave! [ Scott ]

He never knew pain who never felt the pangs of love. [ Platen ]

There are as many pangs in love as shells on the sea-shore. [ Ovid ]

The joys of meeting pay the pangs of absence, Else who could bear it? [ Rowe ]

When poverty and sickness come upon us, with no prospect of succor or relief, then we feel the pangs of our necessity. [ Gerard Guerin ]

No one has found out how to soothe with music and sweet symphony those bitter pangs by which death and sad misfortunes destroy families; and yet to assuage such griefs by music were wisdom. [ Euripides ]