Top 100 Greatest Pain Quotes
#1. A mighty pain to love it is,
And 't is a pain that pain to miss;
But of all pains, the greatest pain
It is to love, but love in vain.
Abraham Cowley
#2. Positive, affirming relationships bring great pleasure while poor relationship brings great pain. Greatest happiness found in good relationships, greatest pain found in bad relationships
Gary Chapman
#3. She was my greatest pain, and my only salvation. She was the only one who could heal this hole in my heart, a hole she'd torn open. Kellan Kyle
S.C. Stephens
#4. If there ever was someone who had a control over you, someone who could cause you the greatest pain, someone who could ignore your most necessary requirements and someone for whom forgiveness were truly difficult to render, that person is none other than YOU.
Stephen Richards
#6. Mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.
Victor Hugo
#7. In being vulnerable, we reach for our greatest need while risking our greatest pain.
Danny Silk
#8. The Greatest Pleasure & The Greatest Pain exists in a relationship.
Dharmendra U
#9. You can love someone even when they cause you the greatest pain of your life. Even when they intentionally hurt you every second, every hour, every day with every fiber of their being.
Julia Kent
#10. The truth for every superhero is that beneath the greatest pain lies the greatest power.
Frederick Espiritu
#12. My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.
Kanye West
#13. Sometimes the greatest pain, is the one we think we can't control.
Dugald Black
#14. Freedom rests on finding the meaning and lessons even in our greatest pain.
Lee L Jampolsky
#16. Our greatest pain in this life often comes from those who should love us the most.
Jeff Wheeler
#17. Is it not also a paradox that in our efforts to escape pain we all run immediately for salvation to human love where we find the greatest pain of all?
James Jones
#18. If the sun warms up the rain, and the rain puts out the sun. Why does the greatest love become the greatest pain?
Stevie Nicks
#19. The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#20. We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.
Mary Astell
#22. Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.
Stephen Covey
#23. it's being branded a failure that causes the most pain; when 'failure' changes from being a verb to becoming a noun.
Anup Kochhar
#24. We tend to forget at times that it is the little ones, the children, who do suffer the greatest hurt. If we cannot comprehend why certain sorrows are visited upon us, how on earth can they?
Sharon Kay Penman
#25. There is no shame in what you are feeling, Harry," said Dumbledore's voice. "On the contrary . . . the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength." Harry
J.K. Rowling
#26. We ought to recognize that our greatest battle is not with one another but with our pain, our problems, and our flaws. To be hurt, yet forgive. To do wrong, but forgive yourself. To depart from this world leaving only love. This is the reason you walk.
Wab Kinew
#29. The greatest evil is that which uses others for its own gratification, which forces change on others and causes pain for nothing more than its own pleasure.
Anonymous
#30. Some say pain is the greatest motivator ... I say it's love.
Solange Nicole
#32. No one can take less pains than to hold his tongue. Hear much, and speak little; for the tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and greatest evil that is done in the world.
Walter Raleigh
#33. PERHAPS THE GREATEST FACULTY our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain.
Patrick Rothfuss
#34. Even in the greatest afflictions, we ought to testify to God, that, in receiving them from his hand, we feel pleasure in the midst of the pain, from being afflicted by Him who loves us, and whom we love.
John Wesley
#35. This is the greatest mystery of the human mind
the inductive leap. Everything falls into place, irrelevancies relate, dissonance becomes harmony, and nonsense wears a crown of meaning. But the clarifying leap springs from the rich soil of confusion, and the leaper is not unfamiliar with pain.
John Steinbeck
#36. Our greatest hope comes from the knowledge that the Savior broke the bands of death. His victory came through His excruciating pain, suffering, and agony. He atoned for our sins if we repent.
James E. Faust
#37. My mother's death supervened, and this was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worshipped her ... I could not resign myself to the loss of a being on whom I counted to make invisible the unavoidable blemishes of my soul.
Salvador Dali
#38. Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.
Rumi
#39. Love is the greatest magician in the universe; it can turn pain into pleasure, agony into power, sorrow into joy, and gloom into laughter.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#40. Sometimes the greatest fear and pain come from a sense of meaninglessness in life. Meaning is a choice, not a search, remember? A sense of meaninglessness is really, therefore, a call to let in higher awareness and truth.
Robert Holden
#41. I still believe that standing up for the truth of God is the greatest thing in the world. This is the end (purpose) of life. The end of life is not to be happy. The end of life is not to achieve pleasure and avoid pain. The end of life is to do the will of God, come what may.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#42. The greatest leverage you can create for yourself is the pain that comes from inside, not outside. Knowing that you have failed to live up to your own standards for your life is the ultimate pain.
Tony Robbins
#43. I suppose I do believe that the greatest art consoles a wound that it creates, that art can give you the capacity to endure and respond to the pain it forces you to feel. Psychological pain, I mean.
Christian Wiman
#44. Laughter dulls the sharpest pain and flattens out the greatest stress. To share it is to give a gift of health.
Barbara Johnson
#45. If you want to help people, if you care, go to the cities. The city is where the pain is the greatest - and the cities are a hell of a lot of fun if you like art, movies and plays.
Frederick Lenz
#46. How much education may reconcile young people to pain and sufference, the examples of Sparta do sufficiently shew; and they who have once brought themselves not to think bodily pain the greatest of evils, or that which they ought to stand most in fear of, have made no small advance toward virtue.
John Locke
#47. You should welcome pain; it is the greatest motivator in life.
Tanner Di Bella
#48. The greatest minds are like film, they take the negatives and develop themselves in darkness ...
Brandi L. Bates
#49. Love. It's God's greatest gift. He fills our world with it and makes sure we grow up with caring, supportive parents. I'm just kidding. Pain is God's greatest gift. Pain is God's way of saying, Hurts, don't it ? Well, go ahead. Say, me dammit again.
Christopher Titus
#50. To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness.
Jean Giraudoux
#51. This stranger has become the center of my world. A puzzle I have to solve. My greatest pleasure and my deepest pain.
Nina G. Jones
#52. The fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength
J.K. Rowling
#53. There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic
and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.
Ivan Turgenev
#54. Time is as necessary for remembering as it is for forgetting. Even the smallest embrace of pain needs time larger than a pause; the greatest pause requires an eternity, the greatest hurt a lifetime. A lifetime is longer than eternity: an eternity can exist without human presence.
Yvonne Vera
#55. Overcoming adversity puts you among the bravest, overcoming pain puts you among the strongest; overcoming opponents puts you among the mightiest, but overcoming yourself puts you among the greatest.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#56. What if my greatest disappointments, or the aching of this life, is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can't satisfy?
Laura Story
#57. You must laugh in the face of adversity. In the end, humor is the greatest weapon against the pain. The
K. Hollan Van Zandt
#58. It is ignorance that smothers, and it is carelessness that makes it invisible. The hunger of craving pollutes the world, and the pain of suffering causes the greatest fear.
Gautama Buddha
#59. The greatest creative power you have on earth ... is to help others. To ease pain and give joy are your finest powers. Kindness is a human miracle.
Anne Rice
#60. Once we start basing our self-esteem purely on our performance, our greatest joys in life can start to seem like so much hard work, our pleasure morphing into pain.
Kristin Neff
#61. In every heart there is an inner room, where we can hold our greatest treasures and our deepest pain.
Marianne Williamson
#62. The real aim of social and industrial organization ought to be the production of strong, healthy men and women, capable of playing and working with the least pain and the greatest joy.
Charles A. Beard
#63. For long years I felt torn between the greatest grief and the greatest love. . . . Whenever I attempted to sing of love, it turned to pain. And again, when I tried to sing of pain, it turned to love. Thus were love and pain divided in me.
Franz Schubert
#64. If you cannot embrace the pain of learning but must have instant gratification, you forfeit the greatest rewards of life.
John Piper
#65. Your greatest area of leadership often comes out of your greatest area of pain and weakness.
Wayde Goodall
#66. But the truth is, when it comes to emotional pain - the pain that registers inside - the greatest damage is often the thing that continues to resonate when the feeling of the pain subsides. It is that message that the pain tells us about ourselves and about the meaning of our lives.
Stephen Mansfield
#67. Why seeketh thou revenge, O man! with what purpose is it that thou pursuest it? Thinkest thou to pain thine adversary by it? Know that thou thyself feelest its greatest torments.
Akhenaton
#68. God uses our deepest pain as the first stepping stone to our greatest reward.
Scott Hildreth
#69. I think the deeper we go, the less likelihood we'll have of being recognised as something unwanted. It's like the human body - the greatest density of pain receptors lies in the skin.
Alastair Reynolds
#70. The pains of hell are not the greatest part of hell; the loss of heaven is the weightiest woe of hell.
Saint John Chrysostom
#71. Someone once said that death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside of us while we live. I could tell you who said it, but who the hell really cares.
One Tree Hill Haley James Scott
#72. The happiest lot is not to have experienced the keenest delights or the greatest pleasures, but to have brought life to a close without any very great pain, bodily or mental.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#73. She's a human being, just like me. Frail and faulty and flawed, capable of making the most heinous mistakes and inflicting the most severe pain. But equally capable of the greatest love.
Sarah Ockler
#74. Life taught me an eternal love will demand the worst sacrifices. A transcendent love will split your soul, cleaving you into pieces. A love this strong doesn't grant you sweetness - it grants you pain. And in that pain is the greatest pleasure of all.
Anonymous
#75. Do you know how it feels to resign yourself to your fate? It is almost welcome. There was to be no more pain, no more fear, no more longing. It is the death of hope that comes as the greatest relief.
The Girl You Left Behind
Jojo Moyes
#76. They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. (v)
Elie Wiesel
#77. Memories are either the greatest poetry, when they are memories of a vital happiness, or a burning pain, when they touch dried wounds.
p. 479
Ivan Goncharov
#78. The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#79. Guils is the greatest weapon vecause its cuts rarely heal and it aims for the heart
Orson Scott Card
#80. Every difficult task that comes across your path - every one that you would rather not do, that will take the most effort, cause the most pain, and be the greatest struggle - brings a blessing with it.
Lettie B. Cowman
#81. Relationships only get to exist as long as they keep breathing in the air of mutual forgiveness, and he and I have found an uncommon grace. Grace can strike when you are in great pain and light you with the greatest hope. I
Ann Voskamp
#82. There are so many much bigger realities that bring pain and anger that I've learned to seek out small joys every day. It is one of the greatest forms of self-defense that I know.
My
Inga Muscio
#83. Two of an actress's greatest assets are love and pain. A great actress, even a good actress, must have plenty of both in her life.
Katharine Hepburn
#84. Can we quantify failure in degrees and say, 'on a 10 point scale this failure causes this much pain?' Extremely difficult.
Anup Kochhar
#85. Words have the greatest power to inflict everlasting pain. Words have the greatest power to heal the soul.
Aneta Cruz
#87. It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment.
Mardy Grothe
#88. No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#89. Hurt is a great teacher, maybe the greatest of all.
Pat Conroy
#90. Just as the results of inebriety are most painful to the habitually sober, and just as the greatest saints have often been the greatest sinners, so, when the first class brain does something stupid, the stupidity of that occasion is colossal.
Stanley Baldwin
#91. I reached up with my finger and traced the scar over my eyebrow, remembering when that was the greatest hurt I'd ever known.
Sarah Dessen
#92. I want to reassure fans that I am 100% involved and will continue working on Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain; I'm determined to make it the greatest game I've directed to date. Don't miss it!
Hideo Kojima
#93. Kill not, cause no pain. Nonviolence is the greatest religion.
Mahavira
#94. The greatest challenge of my life has been to see and accept the actual truth without great pain and struggle against it.
M.C. Halliday
#95. One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Walter Bagehot
#96. We can only diffuse kindness, to the souls filled with bitterness. This is the greatest deeds to awaken their good spirit.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#97. My biggest emotional defeat and the greatest emotional pain I've had as an actor was when 'Wild Wild West' opened up to $52 million. The movie wasn't good. And it hurt so bad to be the No. 1 movie, to open at $52 million and to know the movie wasn't good.
Will Smith
#98. Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since sometimes our pleasure would be none but for telling of it, and our grief insupportable but for participation.
William Wycherley
#99. The greatest writers are the ones not afraid to share their heartbreak and pain for the world to read.
They are fearless and freely in sharing their heart to heal other wounds with their story.
Tamyara Brown
#100. Betrayal was the greatest of all crimes, for it took all that was human within a person and made it a thing of pain. In the face of that, murder itself was surcease: it was quick, and it ended the anguish and despair of a life without hope.
Steven Erikson
