Top 100 Pain Is Quotes
#2. We grow through investigation, and to investigate we need experience. We tend to repeat what we have not understood. If we are sensitive and intelligent, we need not suffer. Pain is a call for attention and the penalty of carelessness. Intelligent and compassionate action is the only remedy.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#3. Avoiding our pain is needlessly exhausting. Pain can not be killed. When we attempt to bury our pain, it rises up from the grave of our emotions, haunting us, until we acknowledge its presence. We can heal our pain when we allow it to move through us.
Jaeda DeWalt
#4. Fear is worse than pain, I think. Pain is centralized, identifiable, and wanes as you wait. Fear is a heaviness you can't wriggle out from under. You must simply find the will to stand with it and start walking. Fear does not start to fade until you take the step that you think you can't.
Susan Meissner
#5. Pain is the fuel that lights the flame of our enlightenment
Eckhart Tolle
#6. When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the noise they make. The other half is the terror at being forced to accept that they exist.
Noah Cicero
#7. I understand pain. I've lived with pain my entire life. But pain is nothing compared to betrayal. And betrayal is nothing compared to knowing that the javelin in your back was rammed there by the one person in your life you actually trusted.
Brad Meltzer
#8. When I press my forehead to his back, the shape of his pain is alluring, almost visible. It forms him, tells him to protect himself, makes him everything he is. He needs to keep it.
Brenna Yovanoff
#9. Callahan's Law:
Shared pain is lessened;
Shared joy is increased.
Spider Robinson
#10. Pain, suffering, and death are natural conditions of the human existence. One person's pain is not and cannot be more important than another's.
Megan Thomason
#11. Suffering is always hard to quantify - especially when the pain is caused by as cruel a disease as Alzheimer's. Most illnesses attack the body; Alzheimer's destroys the mind - and in the process, annihilates the very self.
Jeffrey Kluger
#12. ...dancing with someone who is causing you pain is a bit like trying to smile while having a tooth extracted.
Kapka Kassabova
#13. I don't care whether it was once sacred or not, I HATE WHAT I DO. It's destroying my soul, making me lose touch with myself, teaching me that pain is a reward, that money buys everything and justifies everything.
Paulo Coelho
#15. I know nothing but my open body giving birth to words. Until the pain is over. Until the end of living. Until the end of utterance. Since they have condemned me to say what they want to forget.
Jeanne Hyvrard
#16. Pain is a reminder that God has not forgotten us. He cares enough to allow us to experience in a small way what He suffered, so we can be more grateful.
Norma Gail
#17. No one would ever cast me as an aristocrat. I think the big thing about being an Irish artist is access to melancholy. Especially the American Irish. The availability of loss, some kind of pain, is an important part of who we are. I think my Irishness gave me that.
Brian Dennehy
#18. From a Darwinian perspective, it is clear what pain is doing. It's a warning: 'Don't do that again.' If you burn yourself, you're never going to pick up a live coal again.
Richard Dawkins
#19. Pain is the best schoolmaster, as you will soon discover.
Joe Abercrombie
#20. We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
Jim Morrison
#22. I never take medication for pain. I want to know if the pain is getting better or worse.
Johnny Ramone
#23. Pain is as common as skin, we all experience it. It unites us all. Fortunately, that's not the whole story.
Michael Gungor
#24. The pain is a reminder that I'm lucky to be alive.
Markus Heitz
#25. The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#26. Pain is what hurts you. Fear is what never lets you forget about it.
Dan Waldschmidt
#27. Humans may progress. They may think that they are moving forward because they have invented clever machines and because they control the land and sea. But man's capacity to inflict and endure pain is constant. Man's desire for power, to beat down his competition - it hasn't changed in the slightest.
Gemma Malley
#28. Pain is definitely a genius in his own right. 'Thr33 Ringz' is definitely one of my top 10 albums. It's one of those albums you listen to front-to-back.
Travie McCoy
#29. You can't compare and rank heartache. Pain is pain is pain. There is no precise measurement. No quarter cup.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#30. Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. It's like that frozen pain and my very existence are one.
The pain is an anchor, mooring me here.
Haruki Murakami
#31. Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it's worth.
John Green
#32. Pain is to be endured. It ends or it does not.
Jim Butcher
#33. You said pain is necessary, because in order for a person to succeed, they must first learn to conquer adversity.
Colleen Hoover
#34. I think you're wrong there. It feels selfish at the time, because the pain is excruciating, but there is no nobility in hanging on to something that is miserable and false. We have to fight for our happiness in life.
Kate Mulgrew
#35. Sometimes the pain is a startling breach that hobbles your entire soul; dreadful losses that rupture your perceived reality. Pain so visceral and unrelenting that even death itself can begin to look like a welcomed and kind benefactor.
Bryant McGill
#36. But something I have learned is that sometimes, the universe is full of heavy things that drop on top of your life and stay put forever. Love is one of them. Pain is another. Sometimes they're the same thing.
Fred Venturini
#37. All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.
Rebecca West
#38. Pain is interesting. I dislike it immensely but I've never experienced pain and boredom at the same time. Even when I had unending and severe pain in my lower back for several years I was never bored by the pain, though it exhausted me.
Augusten Burroughs
#39. Pain is a debt paid off with time.
Matt Haig
#41. There is no doubt that the most effective way to heal my pain is to purposefully put it to work healing the pain in the life of another. But that means I must endure the pain of not focusing on 'my' pain.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#42. Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.
Siri Hustvedt
#43. Pain is essential. Often I cannot avoid it.Therefore all one can do is redeem it; and the only way to redeem it is through literature, art, poetry, music.
Elie Wiesel
#44. Unresolved emotional pain is the great contagion of our time - of all time.
Marc Ian Barasch
#45. The first step in helping a suffering person is to acknowledge that the pain is valid, and worthy of a sympathetic response.
Philip Yancey
#47. I've learned that if I stay busy, especially by helping others, I don't think about my pain. In an odd way, my pain is its own therapy. I intend to go on until I can't go anymore.
Don Piper
#48. Pain is the touchstone of all growth
Bill W.
#50. The last few hours were certainly very painful," replied Anne: "but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering-
Jane Austen
#51. You'd think wouldn't hurt a little one, but the pain is a great as if they'd been with yoy all your life. You can't remember what it was like before they touched your heart and you can never forget them
Lorraine Heath
#54. Emotional pain is such a strange feeling. You can forget you're in it - or try to, anyway - and then it sneaks up and finds its way to the surface.
Jennifer Lopez
#55. The essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something - usually ourselves.
Pema Chodron
#57. I'm floating. The absence of pain is powerful.
Fiona Wood
#58. Pain is a teacher from whom we can learn much.
John Powell
#59. Pain is nothing but growth waiting for us to give it permission to grow us up.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#61. Fire is easy to work with if you keep your mind clear, but pain ... pain fights back. Pain is alive. Pain is the enemy.
Terry Pratchett
#62. The problem, unstated until now, is how to live in a damaged body in a world where pain is meant to be gagged uncured ungrieved over. The problem is to connect, without hysteria, the pain of anyone's body with the pain of the world's body.
Adrienne Rich
#63. Pain is a forcing sieve that turns me to gruel.
Marge Piercy
#64. life is real,
and pain is real,
but death is an imposter,
Mary Oliver
#65. I think attempting to sell people an easy fix for pain is the worst kind of snake oil.
Brene Brown
#66. Wherever a pain is, that's where the cure goes; wherever poverty is, that's where provision goes. Wherever a difficult question is, that's where the answer goes; wherever a ship is, water goes to it. Don't seek the water; increase your thirst, so water may gush forth from above and below.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#67. To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.
Mark Twain
#68. We accumulate pain, collect it ... We display it, stack it up into a pile, then we stack it up into a mountain, so we can climb up onto it, waiting for or demanding sympathy: "Hey, do you see how big my pain is?"
Marlena De Blasi
#69. Pain is inevitable, it eventually touches us all. Suffering is optional.
Sean Stephenson
#70. The pain of losing a loved one by the horrible act of murder is not lessened by the horrible murder of another, not even when it is cloaked as 'justice' and state-sanctioned. It is only a delusion to believe that one's pain is ended by making someone else feel pain.
Antoinette Bosco
#72. The truth is that pain is not inherently bad for us; pain is information.
Cortney S. Warren
#73. Remembering pain is how you learn never to let the cause of it happen again
James Patterson
#74. The possibility of pain is where love stems from
Matt Haig
#75. I know it feels like it, but you're not alone in your pain. Shed it. Write a story. And we'll tell you that our pain is the same.
Ksenia Anske
#77. We only dream of things we know and people that we've seen ... War and pain is all I know, it is all I can ever see.
Nadege Richards
#78. Pain is a coward. He flees when faced by the irresistible power of the will-to-live, which is more strongly rooted in the flesh than the intensest passion is rooted in the spirit.
Stefan Zweig
#79. Never believe that animals suffer less than humans. Pain is the same for them that it is for us. Even worse, because they cannot help themselves.
Louis J. Camuti
#80. Pain is all I know." He murmured.
"Peace is all I want
Dean Koontz
#81. Pain is pain, hurt is hurt, fear is fear, anger is anger, and it has no color.
Iyanla Vanzant
#82. nothing about her pain is remotely original - and yet it still hurts
A.S. King
#83. pain is what made you a woman. Most of the milestones in a woman's life were accompanied by pain, like her first time having sex or birthing a child. For men, it was all orgasms and champagne. She
Brit Bennett
#84. Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person.
Pema Chodron
#87. Pain is the coin they use now in all their transactions. Nothing else teaches them, nothing else will satisfy them.
Robin Hobb
#88. Given involuntarily, and in an atmosphere of distrust, pain is torture, whatever the motive," suggests David. "But given consensually, between equals, pain can be a most incredible form of love.
Geoff Mains
#89. Pain is a part of life. I hated that fact. I would be much happier without it but then it wouldn't be my life.
E.J. Harington
#91. The most brutal truth
Is the truth unspoken and
Pain is spawned by
a faulty connection.
Matt Ferrara
#92. Cruel laughter is the way cowards cry when they're not alone, and causing pain is how they grieve.
Gregory David Roberts
#93. When we truly allow ourselves to feel our own pain, over time it comes to seem less personal. We start to recognize that what we've perceived as our pain is, at a deeper level, the pain inherent in human existence.
Sharon Salzberg
#94. Machiavelli believed it was better to be feared than loved, because attachment is easily severed, but the terror of pain is ever present.
J.M. Darhower
#95. When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
Jane Austen
#96. The process of recovering from addictiveness happens at a deeper level of consciousness and through feeling our pain without using old addictive fixes. There is no escaping that getting in touch with our original pain is the touchstone to mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.
Christopher Dines
#97. From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain is the fertilizer for wisdom.
T.F. Hodge
#100. You must be willing to accept the fact that pain is a part of the process of revelation.
Stanley Crouch
