215 Pain Quotes to Inspire, Heal, and Empower

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Famous Pain Quotes

No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable. — Marquis De Sade

Pain is the purifier. Love pain. Embrace pain. — Percy Cerutty

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

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

Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies... — Rumi

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world. — C. S. Lewis

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience. — Marquis De Sade

The excess of pleasure is pain — Almeida Garrett

Suffering = Pain x Resistance — Shinzen Young

Pain is never permanent. — Saint Teresa of Avila

Pain is the best instructor, but no one wants to go to his class. - Choi Hong Hi

Pain is the best instructor, but no one wants to go to his class. — Choi Hong Hi

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. - Cesare Pavese

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. — Cesare Pavese

The cure for pain is in the pain. — Rumi

A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain. — Abraham Cowley

The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine

Short Pain Quotes

  • Momma gettin' older feelin' pains In her shoulder. I gotta stay focused and remain a little soldier. — Rick Ross
  • One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. — Bob Marley
  • I seen a baby cry seconds later he laughs... the beauty of life, the pain never lasts. — J. Cole
  • Don't get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure. — Rumi
  • You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human. — Saadi Shirazi
  • New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings. — Lao Tzu
  • Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths. — Drew Barrymore
  • Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change. — Frida Kahlo
  • What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander. — Elie Wiesel
  • If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it. — Zora Neale Hurston

Pain Image Quotes

Pain quote New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.
New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.
Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy. - Milton H. Erickson quote

Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy. — Milton H. Erickson

Unkind people need your kindness the most. They advertise their pain. - Rick Warren quote

Unkind people need your kindness the most. They advertise their pain. — Rick Warren

Body is not stiff, mind is stiff. - K. Pattabhi Jois quote

Body is not stiff, mind is stiff. — K. Pattabhi Jois

Pain quote The pain will leave once it has finished teaching you.
The pain will leave once it has finished teaching you.
Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. - Joseph Campbell quote

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. — Joseph Campbell

Bones heal, pain is temporary, and chicks dig scars - Evel Knievel quote

Bones heal, pain is temporary, and chicks dig scars — Evel Knievel

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. - Max Eastman quote

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. — Max Eastman

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

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

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. - Arthur Schopenhauer quote

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature. - Albert Einstein quote

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature. — Albert Einstein

The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist. - Kevin Carter quote

The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist. — Kevin Carter

New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings. - Lao Tzu quote

New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings. — Lao Tzu

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. - Kahlil Gibran quote

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. — Kahlil Gibran

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something. - William Goldman quote

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

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you. - Ovid quote

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you. — Ovid

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. - Aeschylus quote

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. — Aeschylus

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. - Kahlil Gibran quote

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. — Kahlil Gibran

If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm. - Warren W. Wiersbe quote

If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm. — Warren W. Wiersbe

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. - Kahlil Gibran quote

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. — Kahlil Gibran

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. - Frank Leahy quote

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. — Frank Leahy

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body. - Publilius Syrus quote

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body. — Publilius Syrus

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.

Emotional Pain Quotes

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us. — Richard Rohr

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all. — Dorothy Day

Most traditional methods of working on oneself are mostly pain centered. People get to repeat over and over their painful emotions without knowing how to use the body's own inherently positive direction and force. — Eugene Gendlin

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.

Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care... -Wintergirls — Laurie Halse Anderson

I am a vegetarian because I realized that even little chickens suffer pain and fear, experience a range of feelings and emotions, and are as intelligent as mammals, including dogs, cats, and even some primates. — Sayings

Having the choice at the end of my life has become incredibly important. It has given me a sense of peace during a time that otherwise would be dominated by fear, uncertainty and pain. — Brittany Maynard

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

Where there is love, there is pain — Spanish Proverbs

As long as you are unable to access the power of the Now, every emotional pain that you experience leaves behind a residue of pain that lives on in you. — Eckhart Tolle

Love, the beauty of it, the joy of it and even the pain of it, is the most incredible gift to give and receive as a human being. — Elliot Page

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning. — Louisa May Alcott

Silent Pain Quotes

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. — Eckhart Tolle

It is unbearably painful for the soul to love silently. — Anna Akhmatova

It is the most painful thing to see how young children become collateral damage of wars, but when peace treaties are signed landmines do not respect any of these accords. And as long as these silent killers linger after wars, children will never know peace — Danny Glover

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

They'll realize that beneath your unfeeling exterior is a heart that's breaking! Silently, and in more pain than any of us can possibly understand, because that's what it is to be Vulcan! — Kelis

And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again. — Thomas Moore

where I have seen good I shall speak of it with pleasure, and where I have seen the reverse, I shall try to be silent; for a book is meant to give pleasure, and pain that is inflicted in black and white lasts for ever. — Isabel Burton

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.

Silent is the ruined land. Man is brutal and the rain does not wash away the pain or rid the distant memory. It makes it glisten. — Cecil Castellucci

Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since sometimes our pleasure would be none but for telling of it, and our grief insupportable but for participation. — William Wycherley

Men had taken greater blows: that was what made a man a man. For did they not say that a man is like a funeral ram which must take whatever beating comes to it without opening its mouth; that the silent tremor of pain down its body alone must tell of its suffering? — Chinua Achebe

The stars spoke once to man. It is world destiny That they are silent now. To be aware of the silence Can become pain for earthly man. But in the deepening silence There grows and ripens What man speaks to the stars. — Rudolf Steiner

Chronic Pain Quotes

The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away. — J. I. Packer

The weaker we feel, the harder we lean on God. And the harder we lean the stronger we grow. — Joni Eareckson Tada

They botched one of the two surgeries and created a hernia. You can't treat chronic pain with surgery. — Eric Berg

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.

One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives. — Polly Toynbee

I have lived most my life with chronic inflammation and constant pain with immediate diarrhea. — Mike McCready

Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain. — Gene Tierney

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.

You can only exist as far as your mind will allow you to exist, and I think chronic pain will stop time dead in its tracks. You feel like you're the only one, and how unfair it is, and a million different feel-sorry-for-yourself type feelings. — Phil Anselmo

The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area. — Karen Duffy

God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives. — J. I. Packer

I deal daily with chronic pain and, at times, my pain feels like a lemon that God "squeezes," revealing my sour attitude, peevish spirit, and tendency to complain or grumble. Did not God use my pain to expose my sin, I might - like many of us - not be aware of the sin of which I'm capable. — Joni Eareckson Tada

Period Pain Quotes

The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life. — Dalai Lama

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture. — George Saunders

On thyroid therapy, more than 90 percent of those with painful menstruation were relieved, most of them completely. The results were fully as good in converting irregular periods to normal, regular ones. And in six of seven women with excessive flow, normal flow was established. — Broda Otto Barnes

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

Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th. — Fiona Shaw

I don't think anyone now really understands the planetisation of mankind, really understands the new world order emerging through all this period of strain and pain and contradiction, so more than ever, we need to have an internal sense of navigation. — William Irwin Thompson

The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. — Charles Evans Hughes

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.

A good Dianetic auditor can take a broken-down, sorrow-drenched lady of thirty-eight and knock out her past periods of physical and mental pain and have on his hands somebody who appears to be twenty-five-and a bright, cheerful twenty-five at that. — L. Ron Hubbard

I know this is painful for the ladies to hear, but if you get married, you have accepted the headship of a man, your husband. Christ is the head of the household and the husband is the head of the wife, and that's the way it is, period. — Pat Robertson

I suddenly saw how sad and artificial my life had been during this period, for the loves, friends, habits and pleasures of these years were discarded like badly fitting clothes. I parted from them without pain and all that remained was to wonder that I could have endured them so long. — Hermann Hesse

I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me. — Hugo Weaving

Smile Through The Pain Quotes

There's gon' be some stuff you gon' see that's gon' make it hard to smile in the future. But through whatever you see, through all the rain and the pain, you gotta keep your sense of humor. You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit. Remember that. — Tupac Shakur

If you smile through your fear and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see the sun come shining through for you. — Nat King Cole

Smile, though your heart is aching Smile, even though it's breaking When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by If you smile through your pain and sorrow Smile and maybe tomorrow, You'll see the sun come shining through for you. — Charlie Chaplin

Sometimes you gotta laugh through the tears, smile through the pain so that you can live through the sorrow. — Alex Tan

Victor smiled through the pain and the blood. "Of course you have. I used to think Belikov was the savage one, but it's really you, isn't it? You're the animal with no control, no higher reasoning except to fight and kill. — Richelle Mead

Life Is Pain Quotes

Your life is nothing more than a love story. Between you and God. Nothing more. Every person, every experience, every gift, every loss, every pain is sent to your path for one reason and one reason only: to bring you back to Him. — Yasmin Mogahed

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

There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment. — Nick Saban

If we can realize that life is always happening for us, not to us… game over, all the pain and suffering disappears. — Tony Robbins

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. Yeah, I guess it is a friend. — Jim Morrison

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy. — Rabindranath Tagore

Death is but a transition from this life to another existence where there is no more pain and anguish. All the bitterness and disagreements will vanish, and the only thing that lives forever is love. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward. — C. S. Lewis

I Don't Think There's A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I'm Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain, Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You're Alive Is By How Much Pain You're Experiencing, Or How Little. — Jerry Garcia

Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped. — Charles Stanley

Love And 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

When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem. — Abraham Maslow

Sometimes my worst day - one filled with pain and suffering - in the eyes of God, is my best day if I've born it cheerfully and I've born it with love. — Mother Angelica

Everybody wants happiness, and nobody wants pain, but you can't have a rainbow without a little rain. — Zion Lee

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

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. — Mother Teresa

Who is it that loves and who that suffers? He alone stages a play with Himself; who exists save Him? The individual suffers because he perceives duality. It is duality which causes all sorrow and grief. Find the One everywhere and in everything and there will be an end to pain and suffering. — Anandamayi Ma

There is a quiet at the heart of love, And I have pierced the pain and come to peace. — Sara Teasdale

The letters don't get their true delight, when done in haste & discomfort, nor merely done with diligence & pain, but first when they are created with love and passion. — Giambattista Bodoni

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom. — Rumi

No Pain Quotes

Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain, The name of human you cannot retain. — Saadi Shirazi

For the choke, there are no "tough guys". With an arm lock he can be tough and resist the pain. With the choke he just passes out, goes to sleep. — Helio Gracie

There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain. — Isabel Allende

I learn from my mistakes. It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there’s no gain. — Johnny Cash

No love that a man has will only give him pleasure in return- he shall also suffer pain because of it, except for love of Allah. — Ibn Taymiyyah

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

If you think for one second no one knows what you've been going through; be accepting of the fact that you are wrong, that the long drawn and heavy breaths of despair have at times been felt by everyone - that pain is part of the human condition and that alone makes you a legion. — Shane Koyczan

Strong women wear their pain like stilettos. No matter how much it hurts, all you see is the beauty of it. — Harriet Morgan

Everything passes away-suffering,pain, blood, hunger,pestilence. The sword will pass away too, but the stars will remain when the shadows of our presence and our deeds have vanished from the Earth. There is no man who does not know that. Why, then, will we not turn our eyes toward the stars? Why? — Mikhail Bulgakov

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. — William Penn

Pain In Life Quotes

Believe in God like the sun up in the sky, see science can tell us how but it can't tell us why. I seen a baby cry then seconds later she laughed, the beauty of life the pain never lasts. — J. Cole

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.

Lord, catch me off guard today. Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain so that at least for the moment, I may be startled into seeing that you are here in all your splendor, always and everywhere, barely hidden, beneath, beyond, within this life I breathe. — Frederick Buechner

When you are sad or in pain or sick or you witness any cremation then you actually learn the many truths of life. — Neem Karoli Baba

Sacrifice today for tomorrows betterment, you are willing to pay those payments with pain, because pain is just a message when you are fixing something that’s insufficient in your life. — Greg Plitt

If I can stop one heart from breaking…” Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. — Emily Dickinson

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. — Kenji Miyazawa

You have to hurt in order to know. Fall in order to grow. Lose in order to gain. Because most of life's lessons are learned through pain — Boonaa Mohammed

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. - Lord Byron

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. — Lord Byron

Your muscles know nothing. It's your brain. Exercise is something you've got to do the rest of your life. It's a lifestyle. Dying is easy. Living is a pain in the neck. You've got to work at it. — Jack LaLanne

T 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

Some people have a thick skin and you don’t. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world. The cost is high, but the blessing of being compassionate is beyond your wildest dreams. — Anne Lamott

When you suffer, don't speak. Look inside and listen for the duaa He inspires in you. and then ask Him. Again and again. Don't stop. — Yasmin Mogahed

Suffering is optional. You’re gonna have some pain but it doesn’t have to make you suffer. — Jhene Aiko

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

Because I'm a civil rights activist, I am also an animal rights activist. Animals and humans suffer and die alike. Violence causes the same pain, the same spilling of blood, the same stench of death, the same arrogant, cruel and vicious taking of life. We shouldn't be a part of it. — Dick Gregory

We are all connected. What unites us is our common humanity. I don't want to oversimplify things - but the suffering of a mother who has lost her child is not dependent on her nationality, ethnicity or religion. White, black, rich, poor, Christian, Muslim or Jew - pain is pain - joy is joy. — Desmond Tutu

Cyclists live with pain. If you can't handle it you will win nothing — Eddy Merckx

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. — Leo Buscaglia

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens. — Pema Chodron

Feeling Pain Quotes

When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important. Interview with Andrew ShueAndrew Shue

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

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 are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds. — Laurell K. Hamilton

To me, cruelty is the worst of human sins. Once we accept that a living creature has feelings and suffers pain, then by knowingly and deliberately inflicting suffering on that creature, we are guilty, whether it be human or animal. — Jane Goodall

The pain you feel today builds the strength you have tomorrow. — Alex Hormozi

I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it. — Robert M. Sapolsky

Love Is Pain Quotes

I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. You see, we are like blocks of stone out of which the Sculptor carves the forms of men. The blows of his chisel, which hurt us so much are what make us perfect. — C. S. Lewis

For anew Self to be born, hardship is necessary. Just as clay needs to go through intense heat to become strong, Love can only be perfected in pain. — Shams Tabrizi

Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger than despair. We have to trust that the risk of loving is always worth taking. — Henri Nouwen

The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain. — Hunter S. Thompson

The cross reminds us that there is no true love without suffering, there is no gift of life without pain. — Pope Benedict XVI

When you turn your back on the voices of those who are in pain and who are angry, you breed hate. Love is the way out, not hate. — Lex Fridman

Regardless of the source of our pain, we must accept that God knows, God loves, and God is at work. — Charles Stanley

So what Ghost Stories means to me is like you've got to open yourself up to love and if you really do, of course it will be painful at times, but it will be great at some point. — Chris Martin

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. — Henry Ward Beecher

Pain Relief Quotes

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

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. - Charlie Chaplin

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. — Charlie Chaplin

Pete Egoscue has totally changed my life. Never have I experienced such complete pain relief as I have by following the Egoscue Method. — Jack Nicklaus

The notion that most people want black-robed judges, well-dressed lawyers and fine-paneled courtrooms as the setting to resolve their disputes is not correct. People with problems, like people with pains, want relief, and they want it as quickly and inexpensively as possible. — Warren E. Burger

Chiropractic care is the only real, long-lasting relief that I have found for my neck pain due to an old injury. — James Arness

Atonement is a journey of healing that moves from the pain between a victim and an oppressor, through forgiveness, the making of amends, the relief of anger and compassion for the victim, to deep reconciliation. — Phil Cousineau

We all try to camouflage the monotony. But it takes a lot of energy. To insist on being special all the time. When we're so much like one another anyway. Our triumphs are the same. Our pain. Try for a moment to feel what relief there is in the ordinary. — Peter Høeg

I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain. — Keith Miller

People complain about their griefs and sorrows and how they pray to God but find no relief from pain. But grief itself is a gift from God. It is the symbol of His compassion. — Sarada Devi

Tonight. After the reaping, everyone is supposed to celebrate. And a a lot of people do, out of relief that their children have been spared for another year. But at least two families will pull their shutters, lock their doors, and try to figure out how they will survive the painful weeks to come. — Suzanne Collins

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

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

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

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

Physical Pain Quotes

There are two types of pain, the one that breaks you and the one that changes you. In the gym, pain is felt as a result of weakness leaving the body. Physical pain is the glue of transformation and the pain of progress. The more you endure the harder it gets to accept the thought of failure. — Greg Plitt

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one. — Ellen Key

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

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain. - Karl Marx

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain. — Karl Marx

Life does not end when we die. Death is a rebirth into a spirit world of light and love, a transition from the physical to the spiritual that is no more frightening or painful than passing between rooms through an open doorway. It is a joyful homecoming to our natural home, . . . — Betty Eadie

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken. — C. S. Lewis

The person drawn to dance as profession is notoriously unintellectual. He thinks with his muscles, delights in expression with body, not words; finds analysis painful and boring; and is a creature of physical ebullience. — Doris Humphrey

Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds. — Dan Millman

If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48) — Stephen Levine

Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters. — Camille Paglia

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More Pain Quotes

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. - Aristotle quote

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle

Every storm runs out of rain, just like every dark night turns into day. - Gary Allan quote

Every storm runs out of rain, just like every dark night turns into day. — Gary Allan

I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it - Orson Scott Card quote

I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it — Orson Scott Card

I came to bring the pain hardcore from the brain - Method Man quote

I came to bring the pain hardcore from the brain — Method Man

Better balance, less pain and less restless leg syndrome. - Euclid quote

Better balance, less pain and less restless leg syndrome. — Euclid

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful. - Elizabeth Wurtzel quote

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

Vodka does not ease back pain. But it does get your mind off it. - Fuzzy Zoeller quote

Vodka does not ease back pain. But it does get your mind off it. — Fuzzy Zoeller

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. - Richard Rohr quote

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. — Richard Rohr

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. - Walter Bagehot quote

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. — Walter Bagehot

it is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable. - Rose Kennedy quote

it is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable. — Rose Kennedy

The pain of discipline is nothing like the pain of disappointment - Justin Langer quote

The pain of discipline is nothing like the pain of disappointment — Justin Langer

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. — Marcus Aurelius

Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step, even though it be by painful effort, by self-denial and sacrifice, ascend the whole length of the ladder of progress. — Ellen G. White

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. — Winston Churchill

It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives. — Marianne Williamson

In Conclusion

Reading quotes about pain can offer a sense of solidarity and comfort. They remind us that pain is a natural part of life and can serve as a source of inspiration. Quotes about pain can also encourage us to lean into our emotions and confront our pain head-on, rather than suppressing or avoiding it. They can provide guidance on how to heal and move forward, reminding us that pain is not a permanent state and that there is hope for a brighter future.

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