1. Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
2. 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, who had ever been alive.
- James Baldwin
3. We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
- Kenji Miyazawa
4. Adventures are all very well in their place, but there’s a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.?
- Neil Gaiman
5. The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
- Ernest Hemingway
6. Behind every beautiful thing, there’s been some kind of pain.
- Bob Dylan
7. Pain is immune to empathy… like love.
- Barbara Lazear Ascher
8. The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives – the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
- Norman Cousins
9. After the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here.
- Walt Disney
10. Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.
- Ovid
11. We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.
- Paolo Coelho
12. It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
- Teddy Roosevelt
13. We can learn and change in a state of pain and suffering, or we can evolve in a state of joy and inspiration.
- Joe Dispenza
14. There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
- Maya Angelou
15. Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul??
- John Keats
16. If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it, to love it. Some endure it through drowning it in sorrow, or by making themselves forget. Others turn it into anger.
- Sara J. Maas
17. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
18. People go through so much pain trying to avoid pain.
- Neill Strauss
19. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.
- Walter Anderson
20. My painting carries with it the message of pain.
- Frida Kahlo
21. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become good is like walking on a double-edged sword; it takes a longer time and is more painful.
- Umera Ahmed
22. Laugher is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
- Charlie Chaplin
23. Sit with the pain until it passes, and you will be calmer for the next one.
- Naval Ravikant
24. Pain nourishes courage. You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.
- Mary Tyler Moore
25. The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.
- Jodi Picoult
26. If you can sit with your pain, listen to your pain and respect your pain—in time you will move through your pain.
- Bryant McGill
27. Life is pain, so live it up while you can.
- Ernest Hemingway
28. The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
- Lord Byron
29. If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey
30. Life is painful and messed up. It gets complicated at the worst of times, and sometimes you have no idea where to go or what to do.??
- Alysha Speer
31. If I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes then share with me your smile.?
- Santosh Kalwar
32. There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
33. Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.
- Khalil Gibran
34. Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
- J.K. Rowling
35. 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
36. And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
- Anais Nin
37. There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
- Erma Bombeck
38. The best way of handling pain was to study it objectively.
- Arthur C. Clarke
39. There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.
- Laurell K. Hamilton
40. We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to.
- C.S. Lewis
41. The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is.
- Eckhart Tolle
42. Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
43. The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
- Thomas Paine
44. Pain is temporary. It may last for a minute, or an hour or a day, or even a year. But eventually, it will subside. And something else take its place.
- Eric Thomas
45. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
- C.S. Lewis
46. I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness.
- Henry Rollins
47. Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.
- Carl Jung
48. Pain is like a love affair. When it’s over it’s over.
- Elyse Sommer
49. We’ve all felt misunderstood during times of great pain.
- Megan Devine
50. In moments of pain, we seek revenge.
- Ami Ayalon
51. No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster.
- Dalai Lama
52. Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.
- David Richo
53. He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
- Aeschylus
54. Pain is a part of growing up. It’s how we learn.
- Dan Brown
55. It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
- Marquis de Sade
56. Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.
- Eckhart Tolle
57. Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
- Cesare Pavese
58. With time the pain eases, the body recovers and the brain figures out new ways to go on.
- Frederico Chini
59. Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.
- Neil Gaiman
60. 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
61. Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.
- Iain Thomas
62. 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
63. One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
- Sophocles
64. Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.
- Roy T. Bennett
65. There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.?
- Fernando Pessoa
66. Sacrifice today for tomorrows betterment, you are willing to pay those payments with pain, because pain is just a message when you are fixing something that’s insufficient in your life.
- Greg Plitt
67. Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.
- Tony Robbins
68. It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
- Teddy Roosevelt
69. Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.?
- Lance Armstrong
70. Don’t be scared… Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You’ll find out one day.
- Gayle Foreman
71. When it hurts – observe. Life is trying to teach you something.
- Anita Krizzan
72. That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.
- John Green
73. The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before.
- C.S. Lewis
74. If you’re never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you’ll never get better.
- Angela Duckworth
75. God gave us pain to remind us we are alive, so we will learn to value the joys and beauty of the world.
- Tom Corr
76. The pain will leave once it has finished teaching you.
- Bruce Lee
77. When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.
- Khalil Gibran
78. Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly … and if left unresolved for very long, you can almost forget that you were ever created to fly in the first place.
- WM Paul Yong
79. If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.?
- Zora Neale Hurston
80. Failure gave me strength. Pain was my motivation.
- Michael Jordan
81. Turn your wounds into wisdom.
- Oprah Winfrey
82. 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
83. 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
84. Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
- Buddha
85. My faith didn’t remove the pain, but it got me through the pain. Trusting God didn’t diminish or vanquish the anguish, but it enabled me to endure it.
- Robert Rogers
86. We don’t even ask for happiness, just a little less pain.
- Charles Bukowski
87. Sometimes you weren’t supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.
- Sarah Addison Allen
88. The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
- Lois Lowry
89. Of pain, you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
- George Orwell
90. He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
- Dr. Seuss
91. 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, but for the heart to conquer it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
92. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.
- Jim Morrison
93. Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain.
- Bruce Lee
94. Remember anything you want that’s valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.
- Tony Robbins
95. If experience is the mother of wisdom, pain is the father.
- Thibaut
96. Pain can be controlled, you just disconnect it.
- James Cameron
97. Pain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
98. No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
- William Penn
99. Growth in painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.
- Anonymous
100. All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
- Cicero
101. This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and… if I think of human beings I’ve known and of my own life, such as it is, I can’t recall any case of pain which didn’t, on the whole, enrich life.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
102. Often it’s the deepest pain which empowers you to grow into your highest self.
- Anonymous
103. One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
- Bob Marley
104. If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible.
- Paolo Coelho
105. I don’t believe there is pleasure in life. I believe there is only relief of pain… We have to suffer to be on top.
- Georges St-Pierre
106. The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
- Charles Dickens
107. You must possess strength to inflict pain, Bob.
- The Joker, Batman (1989)
108. Pain, pleasure, and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence.
- Frida Kahlo
109. When pain brings you down, don’t be silly, don’t close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.
- Alanis Morisette
110. Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth.
- Lev Grossman
111. Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.
- Angelina Jolie
112. Pain is a fact. Suffering is a choice.
- Naval Ravikant
113. Pain is a sudden hurt that can’t be escaped. But then I have also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing.?
- C. Joybell C.
114. I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
- James Baldwin
115. One thing you can’t hide – is when you’re crippled inside.
- John Lennon
116. It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness.
- Chuck Palahniuk
117. We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
- Alan Watts
118. Pain doesn’t hurt as much when you stop avoiding it.
- Mel Robbins
119. You may have had unfair things happen to you, but the depth of your pain is an indication of the height of your future.
- Joel Osteen
120. My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.
- Charlie Chaplin
121. Make friends with pain and you’ll never be alone.
- Ken Chlouber
122. Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.?
- William Goldman
123. There’s beauty in pain, and everyone experiences it – and it’s a lesson.
- Wynter Gordon
124. Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.
- Bo Bennett
125. The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.
- Thomas Jefferson
126. Don’t get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.
- Rumi
127. 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
128. Sometimes pain can drive a man harder than pleasure.
- Don Ingall
129. Just like there’s always time for pain, there’s always time for healing.
- Jennifer Brown
130. What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it’s because that’s what’s inside.
- Wayne Dyer
131. Pain is constant. You either suffer the pain of discipline, or the pain of regret.
- Yvan Byeajee
132. The greatest evil is physical pain.
- St. Augustine
133. It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.
- Rose Kennedy
134. Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.
- John Sterling
135. Moral wounds have this peculiarity – they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.?
- Alexandre Dumas
136. Pain is the only evil I know about. It’s the only one I can fight.
- Walter M. Miller
137. From hurt comes pain, from pain comes change. If it hurts enough, change will happen.
- Tripp Evans
138. Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
- Khalil Gibran
139. When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
- Jane Austen
140. These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.
- Rumi
141. Pain pays the income of each precious thing.
- William Shakespeare
142. Our most beautiful dreams are born from our most unpleasant nightmares.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
143. Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.
- George R.R. Martin
144. The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.
- Publilius Syrus
145. The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure but to avoid pain.
- Aristotle
146. 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
147. Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
- Joseph Campbell
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