137 Hiding Pain Quotes

Following is our list of hiding pain quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about being in pain but hiding it.

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Famous Hiding Pain Quotes

Humor was a good way to hide the pain. — Rick Riordan

The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain. - Wendy Wasserstein

The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain. — Wendy Wasserstein

Never underestimate the pain of a person, because in all honesty, everyone is struggling. some people are better at hiding it than others. — Will Smith

Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. — Jim Morrison

Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water. — Karen Duffy

I've suffered too much to hide my feelings. - Isabelle Adjani

I've suffered too much to hide my feelings. — Isabelle Adjani

Learn to hide your need and show your skill. — Jim Rohn

Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair. — Soren Kierkegaard

Suppressing your hurts is like not tending to a bullet wound. Eventually you will bleed out. Dont numb pain, express it. — LeCrae

People hide the truth because they're afraid. — Nicholas Sparks

Pain forces even the innocent to lie. — Publilius Syrus

The worst kind of pain is when you're smiling just to stop the tears from falling. — Hiro Mashima

Pain is joy when it cries, it's my smile in disguise. — Pusha T

You try to hide your emotions, so as not to show weaknesses to others. I believe it's the same for every sportsman. — Michael Schumacher

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed. — Horace

Short Hiding Pain Quotes

  • I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them. — Amy Tan
  • Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong. — Sarah Dessen
  • Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. — Christian Nevell Bovee
  • Smiling is the best way to face every problem, to crush every fear, to hide every pain. — Will Smith
  • Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. — J. K. Rowling
  • Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone. — Sarah Addison Allen
  • It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them. — Robert De Niro
  • Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair. — John Bowlby

Hiding Pain Image Quotes

Hiding pain quote New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.
New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.

Hiding My Pain Quotes

Staring into the mirror, I was surprised to see a haunted look in my brown eyes. There was pain there, pain and loss that even the nicest dress and makeup couldn't hide. — Richelle Mead

I am tired of hiding and I am tired of lying by omission. I suffered for years because I was scared to be out. My spirit suffered, my mental health suffered and my relationships suffered. And I'm standing here today, with all of you, on the other side of that pain. — Ellen Page

I hide my true feelings to avoid causing you trouble or pain, I act strong to show you that I'm not unreliable, I hold my tears back to show you that I'm happy but what hurts the most is knowing the fact that I'm not all these things I portray to be. — Harriet Morgan

Hiding pain quote The pain will leave once it has finished teaching you.
The pain will leave once it has finished teaching you.

I'll never let you see, the way my broken heart is hurting me, I've got my pride and know how to hide all my sorrow and pain, I'll do my crying in the rain. — Howard Greenfield

You can run but you can't hide... but I can try. I feel air catch in my lungs and I get a cramp in my side and this pain, this wonderful physical pain that I can place, reminds me that after all I am still alive. — Jodi Picoult

Everybody's got a hunger no matter where they are. Everybody clings to their own fear. Everybody hides some scar - Precious pain. Empty and cold but it keeps me alive. I gave it my soul so that I could survive - keeping me safe in these chains. — Melissa Etheridge

Hiding pain quote The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Hope is not wishful thinking. It's not a temperament we're born with. It is a stance toward life that we can choose...not not. The real question for me, though, is whether m hope is effective, whether it produces or is just where I hide to ease my own pain. — Frances Moore Lappé

You're a pretty cool customer, huh?" says Agent Hunt. "I hide my inner pain under my stoic visage." Agent Hunt looks like he would like to put his fist through my stoic visage. — Holly Black

My rapier wit hides my inner pain. — Cassandra Clare

Overcoming Pain Quotes

We know that hockey is where we live, where we can best meet and overcome pain and wrong and death. Life is just a place where we spend time between games. — Fred Shero

The pain that you hold is yours. There is not a single pain quite like it. Nobody else on God's green earth can feel this pain, or have the indescribable feeling of pride you will have when you overcome it. This pain is not your curse; this pain is your privilege. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome. — Huston Smith

Hiding pain quote Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't
Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong.

A little bit of pain is good for you. I feel alive. Everybody needs struggle. Once you overcome an obstacle, you springboard into the future. Life is interesting and short and it's not supposed to be easy, and if it is, you're probably just in denial and you're existing here like a zombie. — Pamela Anderson

You don't really conquer a mountain, you conquer yourself. You overcome sickness & everything else - your pains, aches, fears - to reach the summit. — Jim Whittaker

Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it. — Rabindranath Tagore

Hiding pain quote No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness -- by making the ultimate escape from life. -- No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it. — Dag Hammarskjold

Can you go a whole day with joy in your heart? Joy and vitality are an inseparable combination. Joy is not concerned with having fun; it is an inner spiritual quality that overcomes despair, pain and defeat. You cannot turn on joy like an electric light, but you can prepare yourself to receive it. — Norman Vincent Peale

Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction, for others' affliction, for the affliction of both and experiences pain and grief. — Buddha

If you have a task to perform and are vitally interested in it, excited and challenged by it, and then you will exert maximum energy. But in the excitement, the pain of fatigue dissipates, and the exuberance of what you hope to achieve overcomes the weariness. — Jimmy Carter

Avoiding Pain Quotes

As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone. Never inflict your rage on another. If you hope for eternal rest, feel the pain yourself; but don’t hurt others. — Omar Khayyam

I still believe that standing up for the truth of God is the greatest thing in the world. This is the end (purpose) of life. The end of life is not to be happy. The end of life is not to achieve pleasure and avoid pain. The end of life is to do the will of God, come what may. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset. — Thomas Jefferson

Hiding pain quote Someday this pain will be useful to you.
Someday this pain will be useful to you.

Effort and pain may not be avoided. Physical and psychological breakdowns occur. The support of a like-minded group, dedicated to The Art of Suffering, provides a safety net. An individual will push harder and risk more in the company of trustworthy peers. — Mark Twight

Pain is an inextricable thread in the fabric of life, and to tear it out is not only impossible but destructive: attempting to tear it out unravels everything else with it. To try to avoid pain is to give too many fucks about pain. — Mark Manson

Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy. — Tim Hansel

Hiding pain quote When you are dead, you don't even know that you are dead. It's only pain for others. Same thing when
When you are dead, you don't even know that you are dead. It's only pain for others. Same thing when you are stupid.

We'll jump through a lot of hoops to avoid a little bit of immediate pain. — James Clear

Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it's uncomfortable. And the avoidance produces psychic numbing - resistance to experiencing our pain for the world and other beings. — Joanna Macy

It was sort of the pattern to my life - I'd never been strong enough to deal with the things outside my control, to attack the enemies or outrun them. To avoid the pain. Always human and weak, the only thing I'd ever been able to do was keep going. Endure. Survive. — Stephenie Meyer

Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already. — Jean De La Bruyere

Feeling Pain Quotes

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. - Bob Marley

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. — Bob Marley

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You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human. — Saadi Shirazi

Hiding pain quote Healing comes from gathering wisdom from past actions and letting go of the pain that the education
Healing comes from gathering wisdom from past actions and letting go of the pain that the education cost you.

Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit. Give everything you got today for tomorrow may never come. — Dan Gable

Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full. — Carl Jung

I wonder how biology can explain the physical pain you feel in your chest when all you want to do is be with someone. — Dan Howell

Hiding pain quote Behind every beautiful thing, there's been some kind of pain.
Behind every beautiful thing, there's been some kind of pain.

All the Hennessy and weed can't hide, the pain i feel inside, its like I'm living just to die. — Tupac Shakur

To love is human. To feel pain is human. Yet to still love despite the pain is pure angel. — Rumi

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict. — Jim Morrison

There is no reconciliation until you recognize the dignity of the other, until you see their view- you have to enter into the pain of the people. You've got to feel their need. — John M. Perkins

Forget The Pain Quotes

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. — Ernest Hemingway

Those who worship and adore the Lord through the Guru's Word forget all their pain and suffering. — Guru Gobind Singh

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. — Aeschylus

Hiding pain quote Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stilln
Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.

When the pain has passed one forgets the medicine. — Vietnamese Proverbs

If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him. — Paulo Coelho

I teach: when pain is there, use it as awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleasure is there, then use it as a drowning, as a forgetfulness. Both are ways to reach God. One is to remember yourself totally, and one is to forget yourself, totally. — Osho

Hiding pain quote Crying is how your hear speaks when your lips can't explain the pain you feel.
Crying is how your hear speaks when your lips can't explain the pain you feel.

The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often makes them repeat the mistakes of their predecessors. — Lu Xun

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering. — Paulo Coelho

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh. — Jim Carrey

Time is as necessary for remembering as it is for forgetting. Even the smallest embrace of pain needs time larger than a pause; the greatest pause requires an eternity, the greatest hurt a lifetime. A lifetime is longer than eternity: an eternity can exist without human presence. — Yvonne Vera

Real Pain Quotes

Your real resumé is a painful recounting of all of your struggles. — Naval Ravikant

I say that trials and tests locate a person. In other words they determine where you are spiritually. They reveal the true condition of your heart. How you react under pressure is how the real you reacts. — John Bevere

There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster. — Dalai Lama

...the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant...has painfully affected the Soviet people, and shocked the international community. For the first time, we confront the real force of nuclear energy, out of control. — Mikhail Gorbachev

There have been many people for whom limitations, failure, loss, or pain in whatever form turned out to be their greatest teacher. It taught them to let go of false self-images and superficial ego-dictated goals and desires. It gave them depth, humility and compassion. It made them more real. — Eckhart Tolle

The suffering itself is not so bad; it's the resentment against suffering that is the real pain. — Allen Ginsberg

I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game. — Takeshi Kitano

I prefer to learn everything through music. If you want divinity, the music in every human being and their love for music is pretty much it. It's the big indication of their spirituality and their ability to love and make love, or feel pain or joy, and really manifest it, really be real. — Jeff Buckley

If we look for ways to get rid of necessary pain, we'll be disillusioned or misled. For people who define real change as the elimination of inevitable struggle, the final chapters will be terribly disappointing. — Larry Crabb

You," he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain. — Emilie Autumn

Deep Pain Quotes

A Mother's love is something that no one can explain, It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain, It is endless and unselfish and enduring come what may For nothing can destroy it or take that love away — Helen Steiner Rice

to love is to risk, not being loved in return. to hope is to risk pain. to try is to risk failure. but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in my life is to risk nothing. — Bob Marley

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret. - Nido R Qubein

The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret. — Nido R Qubein

If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it. — C. S. Lewis

Man has created some lovely dwellings, some soul-stirring literature. He has done much to alleviate physical pain. But he has not ... created a substitute for a sunset, a grove of pines, the music of the winds, the dank smell of the deep forest, or the shy beauty of a wildflower. — Harvey Broome

When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering," a deep healing begins. — Tara Brach

Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them. — Gregory David Roberts

But trust can take you a long way. And my faith takes me a long way. And I think that our pains, our vulnerabilities, and our insecurities can fuel us to be better. To try harder. To dig deeper. — Sayings

That no one dies of migraine seems, to someone deep into an attack, an ambiguous blessing. — Joan Didion

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More Hiding Pain Quotes

There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind. — Patrick Rothfuss

Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain. — Federico Fellini

Cleaner Law: when you are going through a world of pain, you never hide. You show up to work ready to go, you face adversity and your critics and those who judge you, you step into the zone and perform at that top level when everyone is expecting you to falter. That’s being a professional. — Tim Grover

Should pain and suffering, sorrow, and grief, rise up like clouds and overshadow for a time the Sun of Righteousness and hide Him from your view, do not be dismayed, for in the end this cloud of woe will descend in showers of blessing on your head, and the Sun of Righteousness rise upon you to set no more forever. — Sadhu Sundar Singh

The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. — Erma Bombeck

I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now. — Sophia Loren

If there is a God that has special plans for humans, then He has taken very great pains to hide His concern for us. To me it would seem impolite if not impious to bother such a God with our prayers. — Steven Weinberg

We find worth in jobs, money, & performance so we can hide how worthless we feel inside. Acknowledge the pain to be healed. — LeCrae

I'm not really good at hiding pain or taking something and transforming it into something good. When those things come along, I really try to just sit with them and let it run its course because it's necessary to feel both sides of the coin. — Trevor Hall

Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature. — Jack Kornfield

You are all things. Denying, rejecting, judging or hiding from any aspect of your total being creates pain and results in a lack of wholeness. — Joy Page

Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage-and give exceedingly thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still-the veil that hides you from the infinite, which makes it possible for you to believe in what you cannot see. — Robert Nathan

Survival is as much a matter of grace as fight. The expression, 'grace under pressure' implies the attainment of equanimity and equilibrium. The fundamental durability of the human body surprises us because the pain can be so intense - yet pain is often transient and hides the tremendous effforts the body is engaged in to heal itself. — Gretel Ehrlich

Everyone has problems, and learning to share them is essential. Hiding pain requires an enormous amount of energy; sharing it is liberating. — Carly Simon

One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside. — John Lennon

I'm not really good at hiding pain or taking something and transforming it into something good. — Trevor Hall

Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths. — Criss Jami

He was the class clown, the court jester, because he'd learn early that if you cracked jokes and pretended you weren't scared, you usually didn't get beat up. Even the baddest gangster kids would tolerate you, keep you around for laughs. Plus, humor was a good way to hide the pain — Rick Riordan

All the things that are negative in me as a person - the incompetence and despair and weakness and pain - are like a gift from God in a performer. If you don't hide them and if you stop lying to yourself about what you are and are not, there is a ring or a tent or a stage where you can take them and use them to make something beautiful. — Elizabeth Ashley

But you know what? There's far more pain involved in rolling over, far more pain in hiding. — Ted Cruz

When I was younger I'd berate myself: You're fat, you're not a good dancer, you'll never have a boyfriend. I don't sweat that kind of stuff anymore. Now every day is a miracle. I've also learned that if something is painful or upsetting, you shouldn't hide from it. You should make it part of your life instead. — Valerie Harper

Hiding my migraines on the set may have been my toughest challenge as an actor. There were times when the pain from migraine headaches was so severe that I literally had to crawl across my dressing room floor. But I couldnt let anyone know. If they thought I might slow production, I figured that would end my career. — Morgan Fairchild

Life is only complete when your loved ones know you. When they know your true feelings, when they know who and how you love. Life is simple when your secret is gone. Gone is the pain that lurks in the stomach at work, the pain from avoiding questions, and at last the pain from hiding such a deep secret. — Robbie Rogers

You have to hide what you are and it's really stressful and very bad for your self esteem. Because it's not obvious to people that you are ill, they treat you as if you're a pain in the ass, then you beat yourself up and you are already beating yourself up as a part of mental illness. — Sinead O'Connor

Words should not seek to please, to hide the wounds in our bodies, or the shameful moments in our lives. They may hurt, give us pain, but they can also provoke us to question what we have accepted for thousands of years. — Nawal El Saadawi

When we hide from the world in this way, we feel secure. We may think we have quieted our fear, but we are actually making ourselves numb with fear. We surround ourselves with our own familiar thoughts, so that nothing sharp or painful can touch us. — Chogyam Trungpa

Unless you heal the root of a problem, the pain will not go away. You can hide from it, but the problem stays until you dig deep. — Leon Brown

Life tears at us and scars us as children so we adopt facades and masks to hide this part of us, to keep this sacred part of ourselves from the pain. — Jon Foreman

You can see when someone's been hurt the way I was. It's obvious. Something changes in their eyes; pain becomes their center, even when they try to hide it. — Cheryl Rainfield

Plus, humor ws a good way to hide the pain. And if that didn't work, there was always Plan B. Run aaway. Over and over. — Rick Riordan

Flattery does not encourage the perfect flow of love in the vein of your relationship. Be genuine and speak out what you feel for each other without hiding the painful truth. — Michael Bassey

It was too much. The comfortable people made comfortable jokes about weather and things but I sat mostly silent saying a word or so when necessary a word or so trying to hide from them the fact that I was a fool and feeling terrible And I was numb, numb again, numb again again and again, numbness and pain swelling in me. — Charles Bukowski

You'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Burning lies led to my silent cries Keeping it inside I've got everything to hide. lustful desire, a burning fire You are the flame, You are to blame. Beautiful light deliver me from fright dreams full of lust. Or is the dream dreaming us? PHYSICAL PAIN don't call me insane. I don't want to be dead but all beautiful colors bleed to red — Unknown

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