Pain Quotes

In pleasant peace and security How suddenly the soul in a man begins to die He shall look up above the stalled oxen Envying the cruel falcon, And dig under the straw for a stone To bruise himself on.

~ Robinson Jeffers

There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it.

~ Robin Hobb

By shutting out the real world we can live peacefully in ours. We know that a world without pain is a world without feeling… But a world without feeling is a world without pain.

~ Daniel Keyes

It is amazing, though, what pains your subconscious will undergo in achieve sustainable peace.

~ Carol Cassella

In the moments of adversity, we engaged our minds on beautiful thoughts, our spirit on spirituality and our hands on inspiration writings. What a good trade of pain for peace of mind?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I trade all my pains for the peace of God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I trade all my pains for peace of God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You ought to welcome troubled-souls with your peaceful-spirit.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Speaking a painful truth should be done only in love - like wielding a sword with no hilt - it should pain oneself in direct proportion to the amount of force exerted.

~ Criss Jami

If you hurt, expect to feel the pain.

~ Debasish Mridha

Don’t let your outer pain, misery, and suffering touch your inner calmness and happiness.

~ Debasish Mridha

Let me not fear pain, let me have the power to tolerate it.

~ Debasish Mridha

When pain is intense, you are at a climax. You can then see the light of transcendence.

~ Debasish Mridha

The marks humans leave are too often scars.

~ John Green

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

~ J.k. Rowling

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

~ Lois Lowry

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.

~ George R.r. Martin

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

~ Markus Zusak

One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.

~ John Lennon

I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.

~ Edgar Allan Poe

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

~ Bob Dylan

You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

~ J.k. Rowling

Did you really want to die?No one commits suicide because they want to die.Then why do they do it?Because they want to stop the pain.

~ Tiffanie Debartolo

The worst type of crying wasn't the kind everyone could see--the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it. A section withered and became a scar on the part of your soul that survived. For people like me and Echo, our souls contained more scar tissue than life.

~ Katie Mcgarry

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.

~ C.s. Lewis

Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz

But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.

~ Margaret Atwood

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

~ Marcus Aurelius

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

~ Haruki Murakami

Don't be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.

~ Gayle Forman

Forgiveness has nothing to do with absolving a criminal of his crime. It has everything to do with relieving oneself of the burden of being a victim--letting go of the pain and transforming oneself from victim to survivor.

~ C.r. Strahan

The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.

~ Djuna Barnes

Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.

~ Andrew Boyd

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, butfor the heart to conquer it.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take can sometimes be the most painful...

~ José N. Harris

I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

~ Jodi Picoult

I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.

~ Veronica Roth

Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, What else could this mean?

~ Shannon L. Alder

Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces.

~ Richard Kadrey