Verb
pay dearly (third-person singular simple present pays dearly, present participle paying dearly, simple past and past participle paid dearly)
(figuratively) To suffer as a result of one's actions.
One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive. Friedrich Nietzsche
We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they do not hide under the table, they eat only one sweet at a time, but later on, they make Society pay dearly for it! Jean-Paul Sartre
Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid. Elizabeth Hardwick
If you buy cheaply, you pay dearly. English Proverb
Life is a gift for which we pay dearly. Spanish Proverb