Quotes About Pain

I think I've been broken for a long time. I've lived with this hole in my chest for so long I got used to it.

Cazador: si vas de caza Por los montes del Señor, Teme que a los pájaros venguen Hondas heridas de amor.

I cannot help it, — in spite of myself, infinity torments me.

"Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man...

It was one of those somber evenings when the sighing of the wind resembles the moans of a dying man; a storm was brewing, and between the splashes of rain on the windows there was the silence of death. All nature suffers in such moments; the trees writhe in pain and twist their heads; the birds of the fields cower under the bushes; the streets of cities are deserted.

How glorious it is – and also how painful – to be an exception.

L'homme est un apprenti, la douleur est son maître. Et nul ne se connaît tant qu'il n'a pas souffert. C'est une dure loi, mais une loi suprême, vieille comme le monde et la fatalité, qu'il nous faut du malheur recevoir le baptême et qu'à ce triste prix tout doit être acheté...

I dolori passeggeri bestemmiano e accusano il cielo; i grandi dolori non accusano nè bestemmiano. Ascoltano.

Dépouille devant tous l'orgueil qui te dévore, Cœur gonflé d'amertume et qui t'es cru fermé. Aime, et tu renaîtras ; fais-toi fleur, pour éclore ; Après avoir souffert, il faut souffrir encore ; Il faut aimer sans cesse, après avoir aimé.

Le ciel m'en est témoin, dès le premier moment, Je compris que l'aimer était peine inutile ; Et cependant mon coeur prit un amer plaisir À sentir qu'il aimait et qu'il allait souffrir !

Before God promotes us, he takes us through pain to purify our hearts, deepen our dependence on him, and impart spiritual wisdom.

There is no loss without pain. Yet there is no change without loss.

The deepest and most significant growth comes through pain.

The unresolved painful experiences of our past lead us to make unhealthy decisions in the future.

they refuse to cry, because they don't ever want to feel again the anguish and the pain they've locked away inside. Abused individuals often don't cry for the same reason.

Once you've experienced any emotional pain, the pain is imprinted on your inner being and remains there until you intentionally resolve it.

I am very scared of wasps; my cousin was stung in the eye once.

For some, the fear of coming out is so great, they can continue to live an inauthentic life. But at a certain point, the pain becomes too much to bear. For me, having one more day pass by where I wasn't living my true self seemed like such a wasted opportunity, such a wasted life.

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it's a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO saying goodbye to a co-founder.

I was told to have an ice bath once, which I did once, and it was the most horrific experience. In my head it sounded like a great idea, so I filled my bath with ice and water, and it was absolutely horrendous.

When I was a kid, we went to St. Augustine, Fla., and I was lying on the couch one night with a Q-tip, cleaning my ear out after I'd taken a shower. I hit my arm on something, jabbed the Q-tip through my ear drum, busted my ear drum and couldn't get back in the water the rest of the time we were there.

My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain.

I know that when you are experiencing failure, it's pretty damn painful. It is easy in retrospect to wax poetic about it. But in the moment, you don't think you will survive, let alone have the time to reflect on how valuable those lessons will be for you in the future.