Top 100 Quotes About Pain
#1. Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.
Lance Armstrong
#2. This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.
Shaquille O'Neal
#3. But adulthood," continued the barely twentysomething, "doesn't give you power over what matters most. It doesn't protect you from pain, loss, fate. That's part of being human.
Cynthia Leitich Smith
#4. Lights are on, and I'm not in pain, and never before have I been so keenly aware that this is all anyone really needs.
Claudia Gray
#5. I think my first big heartbreak made me more compassionate about other people's heartaches. It enabled me to feel more for others when they are in moments of pain.
Kerry Washington
#6. The happiest people I know as a nation are the Burmese; their brightness and cheeriness are proverbial. Kindness to animals is one of their greatest 'weaknesses'; no Burmese will kill an animal, even if it is to put it out of pain.
Robert Baden-Powell
#7. I thought I am kissing pain and pain belongs to You as happiness never does. I love You in Your pain. I could almost taste metal and salt in the skin, and I thought, How good you are. You might have killed us with happiness, but You let us be with You in pain.
Graham Greene
#8. I have learned that in a long life we all eventually play the part of the betrayed, and we all eventually play the part of the betrayer, and neither is pleasant because both roles involve pain, inflicting or absorbing it.
Robert Wagner
#9. Those were the reasons we both knew how deep love was, the shared pain that would outlast any pain we caused each other.
Amy Tan
#10. Implants were something I thought I wanted when I was younger, and now I don't. It was hard being active with them, because my chest was always sore. It hurt a lot, and I didn't like always being in pain, so they had to go!
Heather Morris
#11. Alone at last. Oh, the pleasure of the pain. (Zarek)
You really do suffer from insanity, don't you? (Thanatos)
Hardly. I have to say I enjoy every minute of it. (Zarek)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#12. You have someone in your life whom you honor and revere so much that every hurt on them is inflicted on you as well. And the closer they are to you, the greater the pain.
Masashi Kishimoto
#13. Even a life of pain is not worth wasting.
Dan Abnett
#15. Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down and makes it corporeal, accepting as true whatever the body certifies.
Socrates
#16. Rosewood is what Americans did to Americans. We have to hold the mirror up ... and look at ourselves. Sometimes that's an ugly sight. And sometimes you have to go through that pain - both black America and white America - so we can finally find some racial harmony.
Ving Rhames
#17. The wind? I am the wind. The sea and the moon? I am the sea and the moon. Tears, pain, love, bird-flights? I am all of them. I dance what I am. Sin, prayer, flight, the light that never was on land or sea? I dance what I am.
Isadora Duncan
#18. Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child.
Pat Benatar
#19. Sorrow is humbling. I want my pain to be fabulous. I don't need my pain to be worse than anyone else's; I just want it to be strangely, uniquely mine. Art to someone else's breakdown.
- Thea Hillman, "Dear Kath After"
from the anthology Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache
Clint Catalyst
#20. I like pain. I like when it lingers. It reminds a person of what they've lived through.
Tarryn Fisher
#21. I wonder if anybody else feels this way, if anyone in here is as scared as I am. Are they as sad and angry and confused and ashamed? Is that even possible? Is it even possible for one building to hold all that pain?
Amy Reed
#22. In her questioning eyes her story of pain is spilling silently out. But Lore does not want to know that story. There is time, right now, for her pain only.
Pamela Erens
#23. You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.
H.R. Giger
#24. I treated despair in terms of hierarchy: if there was a more important pain in the world, it meant my own was negated. I thought I simply had to accept the fact that I was ugly, and that to feel despair about it was simply wrong.
Lucy Grealy
#25. Not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.
Anonymous
#26. Her bones felt thin and hollow beneath my fists, but her frailty didn't deter me. I wanted her to feel my pain.
Courtney Cole
#27. There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)
Sherman Alexie
#28. I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
Randa Haines
#29. You may think pain is a barricade to success, but it's usually a bridge.
Randy Gage
#30. Blessing is defined by neither ease nor worldly possessions nor pain-free existence nor stock-market successes. Blessing is bowing down to receive the expressions of divine favor that in the inner recesses of the human heart make life worth the bother.
Beth Moore
#31. You know that you have been stabbed when you feel the deep pain of betrayal.
Les Parrott
#32. Pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens our survival.
Robert A. Heinlein
#33. To grieve at any loss, be it of friend or property, weakens mind and body. It is no help to the friend grieved for. It is rather an injury; for our sad thought must reach the person, even if passed to another condition of existence, and it is a source of pain to that person.
Prentice Mulford
#34. And God's epic grace shows us how to rise above our pain and circumstances with enduring hope and faith in him.
Kurt W. Bubna
#35. Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.
Robert Browning
#36. Because my mouth Is wide with laughter And my throat Is deep with song, You do not think I suffer after I have held my pain So long? Because my mouth Is wide with laughter You do not hear My inner cry? Because my feet Are gay with dancing You do not know I die?
Langston Hughes
#37. What chest?' I said, because everyone knows if you ignore persistent, throbbing pain then it goes away. Like toothache. And small children. And overdrafts.
Jodi Taylor
#38. It tears my heart just as my heart is torn when on certain nights I watch the full moon shining on the lagoon from an unclouded sky. There is always pain in the contemplation of perfect beauty.
W. Somerset Maugham
#39. If love and hate aren't true opposites, perhaps neither are pleasure and pain - if you go far enough in one extreme, it resembles the other.
Daria Snadowsky
#40. Suicide is not chosen; it happens when pain exceeds resources for coping with pain.
David L. Conroy
#41. Sleep offers us a retreat from the world and all its pain. Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us.
Patrick Rothfuss
#42. When a hunger pain happens, that's your bodies way of saying it's too late, you're a fat storing machine now. The key and all trainers know the secret is that you should always take portable snacks with you and try to feed yourself every couple of hours.
Jackie Warner
#44. Pain always makes me antagonistic
are you any different?
V.C. Andrews
#45. I will not doubt, though sorrows fall like rain, And troubles swarm like bees about a hive; I shall believe the heights for which I strive Are only reached by anguish and by pain; And though I groan and tremble with my crosses, I yet shall see, through my severest losses, The greater gain.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#46. Time and again, people transcend the paralyzing effects of psychological pain when they have sufficient contact with someone who can hear them empathically.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#47. You would have been better off if you admitted to yourself that she was the love of your life. It might have saved us some pain.
Adria J. Cimino
#48. Tell yourself that the world is outside, that it's not to be hidden from you, that you are going to thrust yourself forward and be relaxed in the world. You have chosen a field where you're going to be hurt to the blood. But to retreat from the pain is death
Stella Adler
#49. When your fear touches someone's pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone's pain, it become compassion.
Stephen Levine
#50. The pain does not bring perfection because the pain is from Satan. The Great Divine Reality is happiness, peace, abundance and perfection. The Great Reality can't create the pain. What is perfect can't create pain. What is perfect only conceives happiness.
Samael Aun Weor
#52. The pain of sacrificing our old selves is nothing compared to the joy of Christ living in us in our transformed lives.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#53. The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and clinging to passing desires.
Noah Levine
#54. I had lone, schooled myself to be oblivious to pain. I had neither doubts nor fears. All the content of my mind seemed to be an absolute faith in the overlordship of the mind. This passivity was almost dream-like, and yet, in its way, it was positive almost to a pitch of exaltation.
Jack London
#55. There is intimacy in pain. Anyone who has comforted a sufferer knows it - the helpless tenderness, the embrace and murmur and slow rocking together as two become one against the enemy, pain
Laini Taylor
#56. As pain tells us of the need for healing, worry tells us of the need for prayer.
Richard Lovelace
#57. Though it may take much suffering to kill the able-bodied and effective members of society, it does not take much to reduce them to worn, listless, diseased creatures, who thenceforward crawl through life with moody hearts and pain-stricken bodies.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#58. Love, the beauty of it, the joy of it and yes, even the pain of it, is the most incredible gift to give and to receive as a human being. And we deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame and without compromise.
Ellen Page
#59. Wrath to Butch : I always knew you were a royal; just didn't think it went past the pain-in-the-ass part is all.
J.R. Ward
#60. True confession is not just an exchange of information; it also involves entering into the pain of the person we have hurt and entering into God's pain over sin.
John Ortberg
#61. I can't help it. All I want to do is sleep, hide under the soft protection of the covers, and I know it isn't healthy. I know this, and yet I can't stop doing it. I've pushed Ethan away, ignoring the pain in his eyes. Ignoring everything, even the thoughts in my head.
Kristen Callihan
#62. He knows
full well
what her pain
will cost.
The map
to her treasure
which he
has lost.
Kirk Diedrich
#63. Your heart broke again and again, and you tried to fix the pieces with the salves of the world. But they can only dull the pain; they cannot heal. You have been chained. You've hidden your heart in the dark places. But I came to heal the brokenhearted and set the captives free.
James L. Rubart
#64. I think of pain differently now. There is pain that hurts, pain that is so bad you can no longer feel it. Your body just says 'hold on'.
Jackie French
#65. Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.
Ellen Hopkins
#66. The world is full of hate and pain
Must words be hateful too?
Debby Feo
#67. Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds.
Karl Kraus
#68. The writer's advantage, in some respects, over those whose expression lies in other fields, is in the privilege of a double - sometimes a triple - living. Pleasure multiplied in the mirrors of words, and pain siphoned off in words.
Josephine Winslow Johnson
#69. Abandonment - and that's precisely what it is-is never a solution. It never takes away pain, but only adds to it.
Eric Mason
#70. Jacob was the only person I'd ever met, besides myself, who believed music was a cosmic language that spoke directly to our souls - to ease our pain, and to remind us we weren't alone.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#71. The problem is I do not want to forget. Despite all the pain, The hurt, I still want To remember you. I still want my heart To beat to the sound Of your name.
David Jones
#72. You're such a pain in the ass. (Butch)
Said the SIG to the Glock. (V)
J.R. Ward
#73. And I know you're frightened By my laughter But you're not afraid To hold my pain You see I'm never sure Just what you're after, Babe But it seems you only love me When it rains. How come you only love me when it rains?
Harry Chapin
#74. I want it," I repeat. "And not because I need the pain. But because I need you.
J. Kenner
#75. To move through pain to wisdom, through fear to courage, through suffering to strength, requires resilience.
Eric Greitens
#76. Heartbreak makes us stronger; it's an opportunity for spiritual growth. How can you understand someone else's pain if you have not yourself suffered?
Sandra Cisneros
#77. I find the dead easier to be around than the dying. They are not in pain, not afraid of death. There are no awkward silences and conversations that dance around the obvious. They aren't scary...Cadavers, once you get used to them--and you do that quite fast--are surprisingly easy to be around.
Mary Roach
#78. Let me know if you're in any pain, we're going through your groin with a tiny tube up to your heart." Doctor Casey said.
"Really, that's how my girlfriend does it. Only she doesn't have to medicate me first.
Lori Lesko
#79. Maybe right and wrong did not move, but understanding of them did. The wrenching pain of walking the same path, even for a short space, tore away the willingness to judge.
Anne Perry
#80. The whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.
Bertrand Russell
#81. And before we begin, I should like one thing noted. I knew you had Secret Pain.
Tessa Dare
#82. That which is, is. If you accept it you have joy arising in you, if you reject it you have pain, but the reality remains the same.
Osho
#84. Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?
Octavia E. Butler
#85. To see someone you love in so much pain - especially emotional pain that can't be remedied - was the worst form of torture.
Laura Kreitzer
#86. The only reason you feel pain is because you're so busy looking at yourself instead of looking at the wonderful patterns of light. If you become absorbed in the wonderful patterns of light, then there's no pain.
Frederick Lenz
#87. I share that pain. Those events have sparked anger, resentment, further division. I empathise with your anger. I understand your resentment. More than anything, I seek to heal that division.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#88. There's little enough joy, and far too much pain, in a world like this not to appreciate the beauty that comes your way. He
Kate Elliott
#89. He knew, for the moment, that he felt affection for Roark; an affection that held pain, astonishment and helplessness.
Ayn Rand
#90. Those who have gone through a divorce know the pain and special challenges of raising a child under such circumstances.
Mike McGavick
#92. Some we call players and some we call prizes, but when the pain comes and the game of mind begins, we are all the same, all naked and alone without riches or health or status, armed with only the strength that lies within us. Win or lose, live or die, it is up to us and us alone.
George R R Martin
#93. Inner healing involves moving from darkness to the light. "Light" is a word that has different meanings yet is generally understood as love and understanding. Love nurtures the emotional body; understanding fills the voids created by pain.
Deepak Chopra
#94. The process of grief has a beginning a middle and an end. The hard part is holding on in the middle. You can hold on. There's transformation happening in these times bringing you to a new place. It's a place you can only get to through the pain.
Mary Gauthier
#95. Stand still, close your eyes and listen; in the silence you can hear the cries of pain and low moans of anguish of animals waiting to die ... do everything you can even if today it is just one small thing. There are no excuses for inaction, despair, egotism, or petulance that matter to the animals.
Ashley Montagu
#96. There must be a technique for meeting pain. There must be a technique of endurance based on the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity, as Marcus Aurelius taught long ago.
Ray Stannard Baker
#97. So, more times than not, but not every time, it can be linked to a medical problem, such as menopause, cancer, chronic pain, it can be linked to anxiety and depression. Those are the more common causes.
Shelby Harris
#98. The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.
Herb Caen
#99. my life was lived through falling rain
so call on me if there be pain
Tupac Shakur
#100. It's that wounded-poet crap, that soul-pain shit, that too-much-of-a-tortured-genius-to-wash bollocks. Brush your teeth, you little bastard. You're not fucking Byron.
Robert Galbraith