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