Quotes About Pain

The cup of suffering is not the same size for everyone.

The only way to ease our pain is to experience it fully. Learn to stay with uneasiness, learn to stay with the tightening, so that the habitual chain reaction doesn't continue to rule your life.

I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!

When I look back on my marriages, or the breakups, sure I know the pain I went through, but that's part of life and it has its own value.

I was 11 when I was molested. It was like a nuclear explosion going off in my life, destroying everything.

Unborn children can experience pain even more so than adults as the baby has more pain receptors per square inch than at any other time in its life.

I don't expect too much from the afterlife, I think that I know very well what pain is. When I think of the end of my life, I think mainly: I didn't do nothing, but I could have done more.

In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain.

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.

It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.

Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been on to more dearly than Him.

To live sober is...to die countless times!

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.

Inside I knew he was meant to be the guy that taught me about life. Even if he broke my heart eventually.

The sun in my life, it is gone, it is gone

For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?

This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.

Having a normal knee would make life a lot easier.

Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends.

Unless our souls had root in soil divine We could not bear earth's overwhelming strife. The fiercest pain that racks this heart of mine, Convinces me of everlasting life.

There's nothing like suffering to reveal how small and needy you are. Pain has the remarkable capacity to reveal the weakness of the things you're leaning on to make life worth living.

Awareness signs the warrant for suffering.

And the whole pain flows open and I die.