Quotes about Pain - Quotes on Pain

Welcome to these quotes about physical pain, emotional pain, and the consequences of pain.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.
- Paulo Coelho

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Pain is inevitable, Suffering is optional.
- Buddhist proverb

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus

Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
It is the bitter potion by which the
physician within you heals your sick self.
Therefore trust the physician, and drink
his remedy in silence and tranquility.
- Khalil Gibran

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him.
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha

Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.
- Paul Tillich

If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen

No pain, No gain.
- Anonymous

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
- Lance Armstrong (bicycle racer)

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
- Tony Robbins

We would never have a word for Joy if there were no suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
- Julius Caesar

Pain is what the world inflicts upon us.
Suffering is our emotional reaction when we fail to make the difficult conscious decision to choose Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
- Toni Morrison

I cannot know the pain you feel.
I cannot share your memories or your loss.
My words of sympathy are beneath measure,
yet know that my heart reaches out with love to your heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
- Joseph Campbell

Pain is what the world inflicts upon us. Suffering is our emotional reaction when we fail to make the difficult conscious decision to choose Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
- Mahatma Gandhi

The word "happy" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Gustav Jung

The most painful and debilitating fear is fear of the unknown.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
- Khalil Gibran

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
- Publilius Syrus

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
- Maurice Maeterlinck

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles

At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.
- Pema Chodron

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, "It might have been".
- John Greenleaf Whittier

We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz

Those we love don't go away,
They walk beside us every day,
Unseen, unheard, but always near,
Still loved, still missed and very dear.
- Anonymous

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
- Mother Teresa

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.
- Emily Dickinson

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson

Regrets and resentments cause great suffering but fix nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb

Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.
- Armand Hammer

No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill

Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie

Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed,
to those who still believe even though they've been betrayed,
to those who still love even though they've been hurt before.
- Anonymous

I am the master of my emotions -
I transform fear to love, anger to compassion, pain to comfort,
scarcity to abundance, expectation to gratitude, and jealousy to generosity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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