Quotes About Inevitable Pain

#1. I should have known better than to open myself to such inevitable pain. When did I forget to stay aloof and unattached? When did I let my armor soften, leaving me vulnerable? This is what I get for playing human. The

Jessica Khoury

#2. I understand there are inevitable things that we have to go through: heartbreak, family problems. I don't feel like some Quixotic idiot who says, 'We don't have to feel pain.' No! Let's feel it, let's make it work for ourselves. But I want us all to be able to get past it.

Drew Barrymore

#3. Pain is inevitable, suffering is not. Pain and suffering are two different animals.

Henepola Gunaratana

#4. Conceptio culpa Nasci pena Labor vita Necesse mori 'Conception is sin, birth is pain, life is toil, death is inevitable.

Niall Ferguson

#5. Pain is inevitable, but misery is a choice,

Catherine Leggitt

#6. She was forever tilted sideways by the notion that pain was inevitable, chance was cruel, and all human ingenuity should go towards the making of a good cup of tea.

Colum McCann

#7. Pain and suffering are inevitable in our lives, but misery is an option

Chip Beck

#8. Inner peace is accomplished by understanding and accepting the inevitable contradictions of life - the pain and pleasure, success and failure, joy and sorrow, births and deaths. Problems can teach us to be gracious, humble, and patient.

Richard Carlson

#9. Pain is inevitable, it eventually touches us all. Suffering is optional.

Sean Stephenson

#10. It takes two to tango, and if you dance too long, implosion is inevitable.

Allie Burke

#11. I suppose that's an inevitable part of human existence, but in the bosom of a close family it can, at least, be endured. For the homeless, there is no relief. Without family or friends there's only the pain.

Peter Kirby

#12. The pain started years ago, but I'd lived with it for so long at that point that I'd accepted it as an inevitable part of me.

Ashley D. Wallis

#13. Pain from problems and disappointments, etc., is inevitable in life, but suffering is a choice determined by whether you choose to compare your experience and pain to something better and therefore feel unlucky and bitter or to something worse and therefore feel lucky and grateful!

Viktor E. Frankl

#14. Pain is inevitable but suffering is a choice.

Terrence S.M. Popp

#15. Pain is inevitable in life but sufferings and miseries are optional.

Debasish Mridha

#16. Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.

Malcolm Lowry

#17. Pain and suffering
Is inevitable in this world
Yet we choose to survive.
I'm not scared of anyone anymore
And I can say
I've learned all I can from mice
Be a lion when you talk to me.

Monique Koll

#18. But now, this time, finally, he felt the anguish and pain thrusting out from deep inside, consciously, knowingly; an emotional agony boiled up within, churned and frenzied by the overwhelming realisation that things should not have been this way; that there was nothing inevitable about this outcome.

Martin Andrews

#19. What they don't tell you about the illusion
is that I am as much lion as I am lion tamer.
And I got good at inflicting pain the same way I got good
at soothing it.
This, we call unfortunate,
but inevitable.

Ashe Vernon

#20. Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. - UNKNOWN I

Lori Deschene

#21. Pain is inevitable, from this perspective, but suffering is an optional extra, resulting from our attachments, which represent our attempt to try to deny the unavoidable truth that everything is impermanent.

Oliver Burkeman

#22. Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules.

Christopher Hitchens

#23. Pain is inevitable. It is actually a great opportunity for growth, but when we blame or fail to take responsibility for our suffering, the pain becomes stagnant, and stagnant pain can have a compounding effect if left unchecked.

Romany Malco

#24. And for the first time he realized the pain inevitable in any human relationship - pain suffered and pain inflicted. How foolish we were to be afraid of loneliness.

Graham Greene

#25. Pain is inevitable in life; you can't avoid it. You can only feel it. Realize its true nature without emotional attachment and then transcend yourself and your emotions beyond that level. Pain will not go away, but you find that it is not hurting you that much.

Debasish Mridha

#26. As you pass through life pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Anon

Gemma Jackson

#27. You can wait as long as you like, pretty one, it won't make any difference. He will never see you as anything more than some victim he has to protect. Why he thinks it his duty to protect you from the inevitable, I do not know ... unless he knows something we do not ...

Charlotte Munro

#28. Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#29. Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional

Barbara Johnson

#30. If we look for ways to get rid of necessary pain, we'll be disillusioned or misled. For people who define real change as the elimination of inevitable struggle, the final chapters will be terribly disappointing.

Larry Crabb

#31. Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional.

Tim Hansel

#32. EMOTIONAL PAIN is an inevitable reality of life..while it gives discomfort, it is also a dynamic force to 'awareness'. Pain is a very human way of 'demanding change'.Whenever you feel pain about something, you need to CHANGE something! It is that simple...

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#33. I think there comes a point when the outcome of a battle is inevitable but the fighting has not ended. Then the enemy becomes exhaustion and pain. A common enemy. Does the soldier holding in his entrails and facing the death reaper, care any longer what he fought for?" said Quain.

Adrian G. Hilder

#34. Pain in life is inevitable.

Sunday Adelaja

#35. A universal truth of bicycling is this - pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Robert Penn

#36. Pain is inevitable as long as you are identified with your mind.

Eckhart Tolle

#37. The meaning of pain is different for different people ... It depends on their age, their experience and their knowledge. But the intensity of it is the same, young or old ... and unfortunately it is inevitable ... just like failure, that results in more pain ...
It's a vicious cycle.

Shreyas Tripathy

#38. Pain is inevitable; lives come with pain. Suffering is not inevitable. If suffering is what happens when we struggle with our experience because of our inability to accept it, then suffering is an optional extra [p. 19].

Sylvia Boorstein

#39. Pain is inevitable. Misery is a choice.

Christopher Reeve