To the pain.

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.

The Serpent, to my interpretation, was pain.

Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish.

Between pain and nothing, I choose pain