Pain - Quotes

The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered there is opportunity for growth. - Unknown

The pains of life serve, by contrast, to multiply enjoyment; they constitute the foil which sets off and heightens the flashing brightness of the gem. - Eliza Cook

The worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it. They say that time heals all wounds, but we never live long enough to test that theory. - Jose Saramago

There are only so many ways to experience pain. There are an almost limitless number of ways to inflict it, but the pain itself, initially vividly distinct in all its specifications, becomes, inevitably, just pain. - China Mieville

There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful. - Fernando Pessoa

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain. - R. D. Laing

There is no coming to consciousness without pain. - Carl Jung

There is no tyrant as merciless as pain. - Stephen King

There is one pain I often feel, which you will never know. It is caused by the absence of you. - Anthony Hopkins

There is such a thing as anaesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne. - Jack London

To hurt is as human as to breathe. - J. K. Rowling

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering. - Paulo Coelho

We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. - Eleanor Roosevelt

We can’t escape pain; we can’t escape the essential nature of our lives. But we do have a choice. We can give in and relent, or we can fight, persevere, and create a life worth living, a noble life. Pain is a fact; our evaluation of it is a choice. - Jacob Held

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons. - Jim Rohn

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. - Kenji Miyazawa

We wince under little pains, but nature in us, through the excitement attendant upon them, braces us to endure with fortitude greater agonies. - Christian Nestell Bovee

When times are difficult, remind yourself that no pain comes to you without a purpose. - Unknown

When we are suddenly released from an acute absorbing bodily pain, our heart and senses leap out in new freedom; we think even the noise of streets harmonious, and are ready to hug the tradesman who is wrapping up our change. - George Eliot

Wherefore groan and lament over pain? Be, rather, thankful for this one sign of life; for the dead suffer no pain, and lay figures are never chilled by frost. - Ivan Panin

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from over mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life. - Angelina Jolie

Without the possibility of pain, there can be no joy, no real love. - Angela Montenegro

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive. - James Baldwin