Category Pain

Here are some quotes related to pain along with the authors’ names:

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” – Bob Marley
“Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.” – Joseph Campbell
“It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.” – Julius Caesar
“The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.” – Karl Marx
“Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.” – Mary Tyler Moore
“It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don’t agree. The wounds remain. Time – the mind, protecting its sanity – covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.” – Rose Kennedy
“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.” – Aristotle
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.” – Henri Nouwen
“Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.” – Paul Tillich
“To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!” – Charlie Chaplin
“We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.” – L. Lionel Kendrick
“If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.” – Jim Carrey1
“Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.” – Ayn Rand
“True compassion means not only feeling another’s pain but also being moved to help relieve it.” – Daniel Goleman
“The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.” – Lord Byron
“Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
“The greatest evil is physical pain.” – Saint Augustine
“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
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” – James Baldwin
“Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.” – Ovid
“Behind every beautiful thing, there’s been some kind of pain.” – Bob Dylan
“You can’t run away from trouble. There ain’t no place that far.” – Uncle Remus
“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.” – Chuck Palahniuk
“I don’t believe there is pleasure in life. I believe there is only relief of pain… We have to suffer to be on top.” – Georges St-Pierre
“Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.” – Andre Gide
“You have to die a few times before you can really live.” – Charles Bukowski
“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 prettiest smile hides the deepest secrets. The prettiest eyes have cried the most tears. And the kindest hearts have felt the most pain.” – Unknown
“I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.” – Sylvia Plath
“Sit with the pain until it passes, and you will be calmer for the next one.” – Unknown
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” – Haruki Murakami
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” – Lance Armstrong
“Pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” – Khalil Gibran
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” – Khalil Gibran
“Pain is a part of growing up. It’s how we learn.” – Dan Brown
“Pain is the touchstone of all growth.” – Bill Wilson
“Pain is the only thing that’s telling me I’m still alive.” – Unknown
“Pain is the price you pay for resisting life.” – Unknown
“Pain is the body’s way of ridding itself of weakness.” – Dean Karnazes
 

Category Suffering

Here are some quotes related to suffering along with the authors’ names:

“Suffering is when we resist the moment.” – Kamal Ravikant
“The greatest suffering is attachment. The greatest joy is understanding.” – Maxime Lagacé
“Suffering is a characteristic of life. You can’t take it personally.” – Jordan B. Peterson
“Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.” – Stephen Levine
“Suffering is your perceptions clashing with reality.” – Sven Schnieders
“Desire is suffering.” – Naval Ravikant
“People show off to fill a void.” – Maxime Lagacé
“The wise don’t suffer their sufferings.” – Maxime Lagacé
“A man who does not understand the benefit of suffering does not live a clever and true life.” – Leo Tolstoy
“Only 3 things can change our life: Dreams, Suffering and Love.” – Paulo Coelho
“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.” – Seneca
“Nothing can survive without food, not even suffering.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
“Whoever fears to suffer, already suffers what he fears.” – Thibaut
“Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning.” – Viktor E. Frankl
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.” – Bob Marley
“There will always be suffering. But we must not suffer over the suffering.” – Alan Watts
“Be grateful in spite of your suffering.” – Jordan B. Peterson
“The purpose of life, as far as I can tell, is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.” – Jordan B. Peterson
“I simply want people to know that there is a way out of suffering.” – Byron Katie
“One of the primary causes of suffering is avoidance.” – Shane Parrish
“Learn to accept discomfort and uncertainty. It will eliminate most of your imagined suffering.” – Neil Strauss
“The events of your past are fixed. The meaning of your past is not.” – James Clear
“You suffer because you expect.” – Maxime Lagacé
“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“The avoidance of suffering is a form of suffering. The avoidance of struggle is a struggle. Hiding what is shameful is itself a form of shame.” – Mark Manson
“You can suffer greatly but still have a great life. You can suffer little and have a meaningless life. Suffering has less to do with it than we think.” – Mark Manson
“Suffering ends when we stop fearing things that we can’t avoid.” – Unknown
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” – Helen Keller
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” – Khalil Gibran
“If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.” – Oswald Chambers
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.” – Charles Dickens
“Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.” – Ram Dass
“Suffering is one of life’s great teachers.” – Bryant McGill
“Suffering is the true test of life.” – Unknown
“Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.” – Ram Dass
“Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.” – Franz Kafka
“Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.” – Miguel de Unamuno
“Suffering is the way for Realization.” – Swami Vivekananda
“Suffering is the way to perfection.” – Swami Vivekananda
“Suffering is the way to the highest consciousness.” – Swami Vivekananda
“Suffering is the way to the highest knowledge.” – Swami Vivekananda
“Suffering is the way to the highest realization.” – Swami Vivekananda
“Suffering is the way to the highest wisdom.” – Swami Vivekananda
“Suffering is the way to the highest.” – Swami Vivekananda