Quotes About Pain
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. ~ John Patrick
How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. ~ Thomas Jefferson
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. ~ Aristotle
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
It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply. ~ A.W. Tozer
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world. ~ C.S. Lewis
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain. ~ Thomas Jefferson
Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains. ~ Joseph Joubert
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain. ~ Anaïs Nin
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
We are content to forgo joy when pain is also lost. ~ Latin proverb
We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be. ~ C.S. Lewis
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better. ~ Oscar Wilde
You need bruises to know blessings and I have known both. ~ Francis Shand Kydd
The end of pain we take as happiness. ~ Giacomo Leopardi
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved. ~ Helen Keller
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. ~ Helen Keller
Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain. ~ Bob Dylan
Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain. ~ Aristotle
Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you. ~ Mother Teresa
Turn your wounds into wisdom. ~ Oprah Winfrey
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Stub your toe and the world laughs whether you do or not. ~ Linda Perret
After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs. ~ Emiliy Dickinson
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death. ~ Epictetus
Those things that hurt, instruct. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life. ~ Charles Lamb
In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me. ~ Saint Augustine
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain. ~ Thomas Hardy
Pain is the root of knowledge. ~ Simone Weil
There is no coming to consciousness without pain. ~ Carl Jung
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Stub your toe and the world laughs whether you do or not. ~ Linda Perret
You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain. ~ Giacomo Leopardi
Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard, and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike pleasure, wears no mask. ~ Oscar Wilde
I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain. ~ Plautus
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
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive. ~ James Baldwin
We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be. ~ C. S. Lewis
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. ~ Kahlil Gibran
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight. ~ Joseph Joubert
I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. ~ Maya Angelou
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path. ~ Paulo Coelho
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. ~ Kahlil Gibran
Our greatest joy-and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others. ~ Stephen R. Covey
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. ~ M. Kathleen Casey
Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved. ~ Florida Scott-Maxwell
The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain. ~ George Gordon Byron
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. ~ Dr. Seuss
One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside. ~ John Lennon
Pain is never permanent. ~ Teresa of Avila
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it. ~ Bill Cosby
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound. ~ Maureen Duffy
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. ~ George Gordon Byron
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. ~ Mark Twain
The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain. ~ Epicurus