210 Painful Quotes

Following is our list of painful quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about truth is painful.

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Famous Painful Quotes

Learning by experience often is painful- and the more it hurts, the more you learn. — Ralph Banks

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

Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know. — Amy Poehler

Those things that hurt, instruct. — Benjamin Franklin

Growth hurts because change isn't easy, that's why they call it growing pains — Sayings

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

The pain of the little finger is felt by the whole body. —

Love was like a toothache. — Eiji Yoshikawa

The things which hurt, instruct. — Benjamin Franklin

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

Don't tell me that [broken heartstrings] hurt less than a broken bone, that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away, that there's no way for it to metastasize - it does. — Shane Koyczan

Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is. — Lisa See

Memories have to be our most painful blessing. — Kanye West

We can't learn without pain. — Aristotle

Pain is an inextricable thread in the fabric of life, and to tear it out is not only impossible but destructive. — Mark Manson

Short Painful 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

Painful Image Quotes

Painful 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Painful 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.

Words Are Painful Quotes

You are the sky. The clouds are what happens, what comes and goes. — Eckhart Tolle

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

All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement. — Billy Graham

Painful 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.

This morning, you have a choice. You can lay in the dark replaying the awful events of the week, or you can turn the light on and read God's Word-His truth-which is the best thing to do when lies are swarming and painful thoughts are attacking like a bunch of bloodthirsty mosquitoes. — Lysa TerKeurst

A song can be more than words and music ... when sung with soul a song carries you to another world, to a place where no matter how much pain you feel, you are never alone. — Clay Aiken

Bullying can be physical, verbal or emotional. Words and threats are just as painful as fists, especially with social media these days. For those of you who don't know, I was actually bullied as a young boy on one occasion. — Sayings

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

Keep your words. This pain is no life." "You only feel pain because you're alive, boy!" the keeper thundered. "This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff. Fall off and you might die, but run from it and you are already dead! — Ted Dekker

There are no words to express the extraordinary strength and character of this breed of people we call American. They are the kind of men and women Tom Paine had in mind when he wrote, during the darkest days of the American Revolution, we have it in our power to begin the world over again. — Ronald Reagan

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same. — Toni Morrison

Words cannot ease the pain you are feeling right now But just wanted to let you know that we are thinking about you And praying for your pain to ease And for you to find sunshine when the dark clouds have passed. — Margaret Jones

Truth Is Painful Quotes

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

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.

It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

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

Tagore once said - art has to be beautiful, but, before that, it has to be truthful. Now, what is truth? There is no eternal truth. Every artist has to learn private truth though a painful private process. And that is what he has to convey. — Ritwik Ghatak

Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin, there is no other truth to tell. — Elena Ferrante

Painful 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.

Pain is inevitable, from this perspective, but suffering is an optional extra, resulting from our attachments, which represent our attempt to try to deny the unavoidable truth that everything is impermanent. — Oliver Burkeman

I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain. — Audre Lorde

We may have to face God's truth about our pain--it is real, but we must be careful not to get God and life mixed up. God does not cause the pain and sorrow. He suffers with us and desires to comfort us as only he can. — Jill Briscoe

Don't lie to me. Don't deceive me. Give me the truth. Even if it breaks me. A painful truth is better than a pleasant lie. — Yasmin Mogahed

Memories Are Painful Quotes

Love brings up our unresolved feelings . One day we are feeling loved , and the next day we are suddenly afraid to trust love . The painful memories of being rejected begin to surface when we are faced with trusting and accepting our partner's love . — John Gray

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

It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most. — David Brooks

Painful 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.

The vertical lines that run down his forearms are the most disturbing, thick and jagged as if someone took a razor to his skin. I wish I could run my fingers along them and remove the pain and memories that are attached to them. — Jessica Sorensen

Scars heal, glory fades, and all we're left with are the memories made. pain hurts, but only for a minute. life is short, so go on and live it. — Chris Cagle

You know that old joke about potheads having bad memories? Well, the bad memories are like pain, discomfort, and fear. So you lose all that, and the body reacts by healing faster and stronger. — Tommy Chong

Painful 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.

Painful memories are gone! Together, we can build up good memories. — Jung Woo

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope. — Thomas Carlyle

Sometimes I would be very upset because my memories are very murky from my childhood, but there are certain emotional memories or emotional truths that are painful, and things that I know to be the case and I had to nail them down, and that was difficult. — Justin Torres

Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners? — Henry David Thoreau

Painful Feelings 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

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

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

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

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

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

Painful 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.

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

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

Painful Things Quotes

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

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

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

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

We often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, over-reacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally. — Dalai Lama

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. — Theodore Roosevelt

Is it strange for me to say that if I were to die today, there’s not a thing I would change? I’ve lived well. Maybe I have made mistakes and been through my fair share of pain but all in all, it’s been okay. I’ve lived well. — Jhene Aiko

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

If you are experiencing confusion, pain, and suffering, it may be that God is working things out for you in his own way. It is most often the sovereign work of our God unfolding a master plan known only to him. — David Wilkerson

If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony. — Fernand Point

Painful Times Quotes

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

If I have any merit, it is getting along with individuals, according to their ways and characteristics. At times it involves suppressing yourself. It is painful, but necessary. To be a leader you have got to lead human beings with affection. — J. R. D. Tata

It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone. — Rose Kennedy

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

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

If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them. — Benjamin Rush

Some are born virtuous, some become virtuous. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become good is like walking on a double-edged sword; it takes a longer time and is more painful. — Umera Ahmed

look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you... — Colette

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

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

I was very sad for many days when I discovered that in the world there were poor people and rich people; and the strange thing is that the existence of the poor did not cause me as much pain as the knowledge that at the same time there were people who were rich. — Evita Peron

Painful Experiences 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

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

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain. — William Faulkner

Turn your wounds into wisdom. — Oprah Winfrey

The universe is made up of experiences that are designed to burn out your attachment, your clinging, to pleasure, to pain, to fear, to all of it. And as long as there is a place where you’re vulnerable, the universe will find a way to confront you with it. — Ram Dass

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

You feel your strength in the experience of pain. — Jim Morrison

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

If you want to experience all of the successes and pleasure in life, you have to be willing to accept all the pain and failure that comes with it. — Mat Hoffman

Most of the pain that people experience is purely in their own minds. — Alex Hormozi

Very Painful Quotes

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

Pain is a sensation produced by something contrary to the course of nature and this sensation is set up by one of two circumstances: either a very sudden change of the temperament (or the bad effect of a contrary temperament) or a solution of continuity. — Avicenna

People know when you're speaking from el corazón. You have that pain. Take that pain and do something with it. That's very powerful. — Sandra Cisneros

It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind or brain-damaged baby (even ten years later when she may be happily married). — Phyllis Schlafly

If the system breaks down the consequences will still be very painful. But the bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be, so if it is to break down it had best break down sooner rather than later. — Theodore Kaczynski

God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators. — Dorothy L. Sayers

There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control. — Leo Buscaglia

Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle. — Gloria Allred

I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm not an advocate for the meat industry. — Anthony Bourdain

The Art Snob can be recognized in the home by the quick look he gives the pictures on your walls, quick but penetrating, as though he were undressing them. This is followed either by complete and pained silence or a comment such as 'That's really a very pleasant little water color you have there. — Russell Lynes

Painful Moments Quotes

Happy moments, PRAISE GOD Difficult moments, SEEK GOD Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD Painful moments, TRUST GOD Every moment, THANK GOD — Rick Warren

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

This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality. Embrace this moment, remember: we are eternal all this pain is an illusion. — Maynard James Keenan

EACH DAY OF HUMAN life contains joy and anger, pain and pleasure, darkness and light, growth and decay. Each moment is etched with nature’s grand design-do not try to deny or oppose the cosmic order of things. — Morihei Ueshiba

It's true we don't know what we've got until its gone, but we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. — Bette Davis

You have to make the decision to let go of the past if you want to move forward. Reliving your painful past will poison your heart and your tomorrow. If you look at today through the eyes of the past, you can never see what the present moment has to offer. — Bryant H. McGill

When people are like, 'Life is good,' I go, 'No, life is a series of disastrous moments, painful moments, unexpected moments, and things that will break your heart. And in between those moments, that's when you savor, savor, savor.' — Sandra Bullock

Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace. — Frederick Buechner

The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment. — Eckhart Tolle

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. — Bette Davis

Change Is Painful Quotes

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing. — Sakyong Mipham

Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful — Buddha

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

The wound is the place where the Light enters you. — Rumi

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth. — M. Scott Peck

Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life. — Jacob Burckhardt

Pain is important, and changing who you are is difficult, painful, and scary. Most of the self-help industry sees change as this euphoric, liberating thing and tells you that you can be happy all the time. I think the opposite. — Mark Manson

Changing the way we talk is not political correctness run amok. It reflects an admirable willingness to acknowledge others who once were barely visible to the dominant culture, and to recognize that something that may seem innocent to you may be painful to others. — David Plotz

Change will come only when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change. — Patrick Bet-David

All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful. — Flannery O'Connor

Painful Situations Quotes

So many people in the world would rather stay in a situation that's painful but familiar because they're comfortable with it. Not a lot of people have the strength or heart to realize when something's not good for them and to turn around and be alone. — Corey Taylor

You start projecting hurt and pain onto yourself when you don't find closure. Be honest with the situation and yourself, clean the wound, and move on. — Jay Shetty

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it. — Bill Cosby

A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel. — Elizabeth Blackwell

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them. — Simon Wiesenthal

The civil rights situation is like a pregnancy. It will get worse, I believe, before it gets better. What the usual pregnancy comes to is a decent baby. That is what we all hope will be the end product of this stress. It is customary, at the end of a pregnancy, to have for your pains a decent baby. — Gwendolyn Brooks

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

There is more pain from holding on to the thought of pain than there is in the situation itself. If you let the world strike you, it will do so less cruelly than your own imagination. — Lester Levenson

In my world, everything has the potential to be funny. Joyful things, painful things... It's all about how you view it and if you're able to take an objective stance on the situation. — Jinkx Monsoon

Why do we hold onto negativity? For some reason, we believe that others are affected by our experience of remaining upset, hurt or angry. Holding on to pain, anger, guilt or shame is the glue that binds us to the situation we want to escape. — Iyanla Vanzant

Real Pain Quotes

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

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

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

Extreme Pain Quotes

Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail. — Elbert Hubbard

Any time I go through difficulty, I look to moments in history where people have endured the same pain, if not more extreme, and I analyze, absorb, and connect how they got through it. — Jay Shetty

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

Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode. — William Styron

I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau. — Marie Antoinette

Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. ... They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the pain of self-awareness. ... [E]vil is laziness carried to its ultimate, extraordinary extreme. — M. Scott Peck

At bottom is the best soil to sow and grow something new again. In that sense, hitting bottom, while extremely painful, is also the sowing ground. — Anonymous

I was taught early on in my recovery that, 'Pain is good. Extreme pain is extremely good.' — Mike Ness

Maybe poets express more directly a sense of sympathy for other human beings. Painting is a little bit more of a retreat from human beings in real life; painting is more about the extreme moments when speech doesn't help anymore. — Francesco Clemente

So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar. — Matthew Henry

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More Painful 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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