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โPain โ, by Riccardo Cuppini , is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Physical pain or mental suffering can be due to many reasons. These quotes about pain will remind you how powerful and strong you actually are. May these quotes about pain help you to remove all your sorrows and bring a smile to your face.
Quotes About Pain
โIt is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.โ
MARQUIS DE SADE, โPhilosophy in the Bedroom: An Erotic Novelโ, Library of Alexandria
โOne good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.โ
BOB MARLEY, Song: Trenchtown Rock
โNearly everyone has his box of secret pain.โ
JOHN STEINBECK (1952). โEast of Edenโ
โPain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.โ
โThe greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.โ
JENNIFER ANISTON, โOprah Magazineโ, 2004.
โOne thing you canโt hide โ is when youโre crippled inside.โ
JOHN LENNON, Song: Crippled Inside, A lbum: Imagine
โBut what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.โ
GEORGE ELIOT (2013). โDelphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)โ, p.2488, Delphi Classics
โTurn your wounds into wisdom.โ
โItโs no good trying to keep up old friendships. Itโs painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.โ
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM (1930). โCakes and Aleโ
โIf pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.โ
GEORGE SANTAYANA (2011). โThe Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book Oneโ, p.136, MIT Press
โThe greatest evil is physical pain.โ
SAINT AUGUSTINE, Soliloquies I.21
โYou feel your strength in the experience of pain.โ
โWhen thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.โ
SALMAN RUSHDIE (2010). โMidnightโs Childrenโ, p.497, Random House
โReal pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.โ
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (2013). โDelphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)โ, p.3497, Delphi Classics
โYou think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.โ
JAMES BALDWIN, โDoom and glory of knowing who you areโ. โLIFEโ Magazine, Vol. 54, No. 21, (p. 89), May 24, 1963.
โFace your life, itโs pain, itโs pleasure, leave no path untaken.โ
โLife is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.โ
CESARE PAVESE (1961). โThis Business of Livingโ, p.74, Transaction Publishers
โDo you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?โ
JOHN KEATS (2013). โDelphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)โ, p.824, Delphi Classics
โRich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,- Sweet is pleasure after pain.โ
JOHN DRYDEN, โAlexanderโs Feastโ (1697) l. 57
โWaiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.โ
โEvil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.โ
SIMONE WEIL (2015). โFirst and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledgeโ, p.69, Wipf and Stock Publishers
โThe worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. Itโs the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.โ
LOIS LOWRY (2014). โThe Giver Movie Tie-In Editionโ, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
โWhat hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.โ
ELIE WIESEL, โCourage To Care โ Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaustโ by Carol Rittner and Sandra Meyers, NYU Press, (p. 2), 1986.
โPain is never permanent.โ
โAfter great pain, a formal feeling comes. The nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.โ
EMILY DICKINSON, โAfter great pain, a formal feeling comesโ (1862)\
โNever producing pain by thought, word, and deed, in any living being, is what is called Ahimsรข, non-injury.โ
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA (2015). โThe Complete Works of Swami Vivekanandaโ, p.175, Manonmani Publishers
โYou purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.โ
ALEXANDER POPE (1822). โThe poems of Alexander Popeโ, p.91
โOne word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.โ
โTime was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.โ
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER, โExtremely Loud and Incredibly Closeโ. Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2005.
โIt is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.โ
THEODORE ROOSEVELT (2015). โTheodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Centuryโ, p.31, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
โNo pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.โ
WILLIAM PENN, No Cross, No Crown (1669) See Proverbs 212
โThatโs the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.โ
โWorldโs use is cold, worldโs love is vain, worldโs cruelty is bitter bane ; but is not the fruit of pain.โ
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1866). โElizabeth Barrett Browningโs poetical worksโ, p.222
โImagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.โ
MARKUS ZUSAK (2013). โThe Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Editionโ, p.211, RH Childrens Books
โNature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.โ
JEREMY BENTHAM, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation ch. 1 (1789)
โYour pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.โ
โEven pain pricks to livelier living.โ
AMY LOWELL (2009). โSword Blades and Poppy Seedโ, p.43, ReadHowYouWant.com
โMan maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.โ
MAXWELL MALTZ (1989). โPsycho-Cyberneticsโ, p.137, Simon and Schuster
โI wish no living thing to suffer pain.โ
โYou may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call โfailureโ is not the falling down, but the staying down.โ
MARY PICKFORD, โWhy Not Try God?โ, Chapter 6 (newspaper serial) in St. Petersburg Times, sect. 2, p. 3, January 25, 1936.
โDoubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.โ
KHALIL GIBRAN (2007). โKahlil Gibran: Masterpiecesโ
โSome old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.โ
โPain of mind is worse than pain of body.โ
PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
โThose who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.โ
SAMUEL JOHNSON, The Rambler No. 48, 1 September (1750)
โMuch benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.โ
GEORGE MEREDITH, โVittoriaโ (1866) ch. 42
โPain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.โ
โVirtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.โ
ALEXANDER POPE, โEpistles to Several Personsโ โTo a Ladyโ (1735) l. 163
โSo great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.โ
MATTHEW HENRY (1839). โAn Exposition of the Old and New Testament: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents: Job-Solomonโs Song. 1839โ, p.24
โOne fire burns out anotherโs burning, One pain is lessenโd by anotherโs anguish.โ
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (2000). โRomeo and Julietโ, p.36, Classic Books Company
โGrief is itself a medicine.โ
โAh, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.โ
GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL (1935). โSelected poemsโ
โRemember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.โ
SENECA THE YOUNGER, Epistulae ad Lucilium XCIV
โPain is not evil unless it conquers us.โ
โPleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.โ
JOHN SELDEN, โTable Talkโ (1689) โPleasureโ
โOne pain is lessened by anotherโs anguish.โ
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (2003). โRomeo and Julietโ, p.46, Perfection Learning
โThere is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.โ
DANTE ALIGHIERIย (1995). โDanteโs Inferno: The Indiana Critical Editionโ, p.311, Indiana University Press
โNo gains without pains.โ
โNever a lip is curved with pain that canโt be kissed into smiles again.โ
BRET HARTE (2016). โPoetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelistโ, p.112, VM eBooks
โOn the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.โ
VIRGINIA WOOLF (2005). โSelected Works of Virginia Woolfโ, p.756, Wordsworth Editions
โAll pain is the same.โ
OPRAH WINFREY (2017). โThe Wisdom of Sundays: Life-Changing Insights and Inspirational Conversationsโ, p.6, Pan Macmillan
โThe essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something โ usually ourselves.โ
โPain pays the income of each precious thing.โ
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (2002). โThe Complete Sonnets and Poemsโ, p.262, Oxford University Press on Demand
โLong pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.โ
JOHN DRYDEN (1808). โThe Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumesโ, p.123
โAnd the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.โ
BAYARD TAYLOR (1856). โPoemsโ, p.226
โPain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.โ
โPains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.โ
JOHN DRYDEN, โTyrannic Loveโ (1669) act 4, sc. 1
โPain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.โ
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, โMutationโ
โThere is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.โ
ERMA BOMBECK (2013). โThe Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tankโ, p.139, Open Road Media
โLife can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.โ
โAmour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.โ
ALDOUS HUXLEY (2015). โCrome Yellowโ, p.86, Sheba Blake Publishing
โGod is a concept by which we measure our pain.โ
JOHN LENNON, โGodโ (song) (1970)
โAll our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.โ
MAURICE MAETERLINCK (1913). โOur Eternityโ
โThe best way out is always through.โ
โMen who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage โ theyโve experienced pain and bought jewelry.โ
RITA RUDNER (2008). โI Still Have It . . . I Just Canโt Remember Where I Put It: Confessions of a Fiftysomethingโ, p.86, Crown Archetype
โSometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.โ
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (2013). โThree Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thiโ, p.171, Simon and Schuster
โIt is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.โ
AIDEN WILSON TOZER, โThe Root of the Righteousโ. Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, 1955.
โIf there is no struggle, there is no progress.โ
โEvery setback might be the very thing that makes you carry on and fight all the harder and become much better.โ
LES PAUL, โThe Man Before The Guitar: Remembering Les Paul At 100โ. โAll Things Consideredโ with Joel Rose, kvcrnews.org. June 9, 2015.
โAs much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the journey.โ
MARTHA BECK, โReasons to feel good about the futureโ by Martha Beck, edition.cnn.com. January 9, 2008.
โIf you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.โ
โWhat may look like a small act of courage is courage nevertheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward.โ
DAISAKU IKEDA (2000). โThe Way of Youth: Buddhist Common Sense for Handling Lifeโs Questionsโ, p.111, Middleway Press
โFaith doesnโt mean that you donโt have doubts.โ
BARACK OBAMA (2007). โThe Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dreamโ, p.207, Canongate Books
โLife is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.โ
โPeople have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.โ
THICH NHAT HANH (2015). โMindfulness Meditation: For a Quieter Mind, Self-Awareness and Healthy Livingโ, p.125, Souvenir Press
โYou donโt drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.โ
EDWIN LOUIS COLE (1998). โProfiles in Courageous Manhoodโ, Albury Pub
โIt is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.โ
RAM DASS (2012). โJourney of Awakening: A Meditatorโs Guidebookโ, p.28, Bantam
โChange is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.โ
โDonโt watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.โ
SAM LEVENSON (2016). โYou Donโt Have to Be in Whoโs Who to Know Whatโs What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levensonโ, p.146, Open Road Media
โItโs not whether you get knocked down, itโs whether you get up.โ
VINCE LOMBARDI, JR. (2012). โWhat It Takes to Be Number Oneโ, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc
โForget the past.โ
NELSON MANDELA (1990). โNelson Mandela, symbol of resistance and hope for a free South Africa: selected speeches since his releaseโ
โPain is life โ the sharper, the more evidence of life.โ
โEvery setback means youโre one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.โ
JOEL OSTEEN (2012). โI Declare: 31 Promises to Speak Over Your Lifeโ, p.19, Hachette UK
โThe art of life is the art of avoiding pain.โ
โIโm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.โ
ALICE HOFFMAN (2012). โGreen Heartโ, p.93, Scholastic Inc.
โMuch of your pain is self-chosen.โ
โWhen you hit a wall โ of your own imagined limitations โ just kick it in.โ
SAM SHEPARD, โRemembering Sam Shepard: The Pulitzer-Winning Playwright and Authorโs 10 Best Quotes on Writing, Love and Lifeโ by Olivia Ladd, July 31, 2017.
โFirst steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.โ
ABERJHANI (2014). โJourney through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetryโ, p.21
โMy heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you.โ
KURT COBAIN, โSong: โDumbโ (โIn Uteroโ)โ. 1993.
โI always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.โ
โI realize I waited too long but please donโt move on.โ
DRAKE, Song: Sooner Than Later, Album: So Far Gone
โI had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing.โ
ANNE RICE (2011). โNew Tales of the Vampires: includes Pandora and Vittorio the Vampireโ, p.26, Ballantine Books
โThe marks humans leave are too often scars.โ
JOHN GREEN (2012). โThe Fault in Our Starsโ, p.176, Penguin
โYesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.โ
โBut pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.โ
JOHN MILTON, 1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.6, l.461-3.
โFriends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.โ
HENRI J.M. NOUWEN (2017). โYou Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Livingโ, Convergent Books
โThere is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.โ
โFor all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.โ
JOHN DRYDEN, โThe Indian Emperorโ (1665) act 4, sc. 1
โFor it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all oneโs life.โ
AESCHYLUS, โPrometheus Boundโ. Play by Aeschylus,
โMoving on is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.โ
โ He preacheth patience that never knew painโ
HENRY GEORGE BOHN (1855). โA Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising Rayโs Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages. And a Complete Alphabetical Indexโ, p.381
โIn the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.โ
TIMOTHY KELLER (2013). โWalking with God through Pain and Sufferingโ, p.26, Penguin
โIn the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.โ
โPain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.โ
RANDALL JARRELL (1985). โRandall Jarrellโs letters: an autobiographical and literary selectionโ, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
โSooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened.โ
ANNE TYLERย (2012). โThe Beach Book Bundle: 3 Novels for Summer Reading: Breathing Lessons, The Alphabet Sisters, Firefly Summerโ, p.176, Ballantine Books
โIf I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.โ
โPain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow.โ
CHARLES CALEB COLTON (1824). โLacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Thinkโ, p.83
โTruly, a life in constant pain is the life of the damned.โ
CHRISTOPHER PIKE (2012). โThirst No. 1: The Last Vampire, Black Blood, Red Diceโ, p.211, Simon and Schuster
โThe pain passes, but the beauty remains.โ
โAnd die of nothing but a rage to live.โ
ALEXANDER POPE (1822). โThe poems of Alexander Popeโ, p.91
โWhen a person tells you that you hurt them, you donโt get to decide that you didnโt.โ
LOUIS C.K., โFictional character: Louieโ. โLouie/ Cop Storyโ, 2015.
โThe trick is not how much pain you feel โ but how much joy you feel.โ
โBeginners are many; finishers are few.โ
STEPHEN M. R. COVEY (2008). โThe Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everythingโ, p.122, Simon and Schuster
โBe patient. Relax and trust. Let go. Then, let go some more.โ
MELODY BEATTIE (1990). โThe Language of Letting Goโ, p.254, Hazelden Publishing
โAll pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.โ
โOften we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.โ
HELEN KELLER (2000). โTo Love this Life: Quotationsโ, p.25, American Foundation for the Blind
โSuffering is unbearable if you arenโt certain that God is for you and with you.โ
TIMOTHY KELLER (2013). โWalking with God through Pain and Sufferingโ, p.46, Penguin
โSome people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing.โ
โThere is a quiet at the heart of love, And I have pierced the pain and come to peace.โ
SARA TEASDALE (1911). โHelen of Troy, and Other Poemsโ
โAll the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.โ
HAVELOCK ELLIS (1973). โAffirmationsโ, Milford House Publishing Company
โPain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.โ
โOne must always maintain oneโs connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.โ
GASTON BACHELARD, โFragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)โ. Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.
โIf youโre not failing, youโre probably not really moving forward.โ
JOHN C. MAXWELL (2012). โThe Complete 101 Collectionโ, p.47, Harper Collins
โIf you canโt run, walk; if you canโt walk, crawl; but keep moving forward!โ
โPain is no longer pain when it is past.โ
MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON (1870). โOld Song and Newโ , p.260
โSooner or later weโve all got to let go of our past.โ
โIt seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world.โ
ALBERT SCHWEITZER (2014). โOut of My Life and Thought: An Autobiographyโ, p.244, Henry Holt and Company
โYour pain is an opportunity for you to learn about yourself.โ
GARY ZUKAV, โOn Guilt: Gary Zukav Tells How To Work Through Feeling Guiltyโ. October 16, 2012.
โIf you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.โ
JESSE JACKSON, โQ&A: The Rev Jesse Jacksonโ. Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, April 13, 2012.ย
โI always like to look on the optimistic side of life.โ
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