Quotes About Pain

If only tears could speak, they would tell the agony of the eyes.

I'm not sympathetic. I have zero sympathy. I understand about emotional eating, I understand how painful the process can be, but I also understand that change is possible.

I'm slowly becoming a repository for decomposing sorrows, regrets, ignored injustice, and forgotten promises. I can still feel its stench. But when I get accustomed to it, I will call it experience.

Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don't waste your pain; use it to help others.

I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.

Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real, even though our feet bleed on its stones.

At times I enjoy writing and at others times I just hate it because it's definitely having to go back and experience some pain and express what you really feel.

Sometimes you can learn, even from a bad experience. By coping you become stronger. The pain does not go away, but it becomes manageable.

We often find comfort in telling what is painful in actual experience.

Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.

Waxing was an interesting experience. Not quite as painful as I expected.

Allow yourself to experience fully every step of the journey, both the joy and the pain. You're alive. Greet the moment at hand with a grateful heart.

It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting.

The reward of pain is experience.

Blisters are a painful experience, but if you get enough blisters in the same place, they will eventually produce a callus. That is what we call maturity.

Suffering for eight hours...the most unpleasant experience I've ever had.

Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.

Human beings have a tendency to push away unwanted pain, but my experience is that when I give my consent to it, it delivers its gift and moves on.

All victims have experienced a loss-a thwarted desire or aspiration-even if they're not aware of it.

There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.

Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They feel medieval. I was very happy to stop wearing them.

Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience... It will force you to move on and you will not have a choice in the matter.