Pain Quotes

Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Straight tribulation is easier to bear than tribulation which advertises itself as pleasure.

C.S. Lewis

To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.

Terence

Man is to be understood only in his relation to God.

C.S. Lewis

Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

Mary Tyler Moore

What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.

Publilius Syrus

Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.

Publilius Syrus

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be, or not to be, that is the question:Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to sufferThe Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune,Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles,And by opposing end them: to die, to sleepNo more; and by a sleep, to say we endThe Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocksThat Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummationDevoutly to be wished. To die to sleep,To sleep, perchance to Dream; Aye, there's the rub.

William Shakespeare

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.Much of your pain is self-chosen.It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquillity:For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen,And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.

Kahlil Gibran

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 the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

George Eliot

The very thing that is causing you pain is building you up.

Steve Maraboli

Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again.

Bret Harte

Hurt's a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don't change facts.

Stephen King

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

John Selden

Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute.

Mark Twain

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

Laurence Sterne

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Cesare Pavese