Quotes About Pain

One of life's greatest paradoxes is that it's in the crucible of pain and suffering that we become tender.

One of life's greatest paradoxes is that it's in the crucible of pain and suffering that we become tender. Not all pain and suffering, certainly. If that were the case, the whole world would be tender, since no one escapes pain and suffering. To these elements must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love and the willingness to remain vulnerable. Together they lead to wisdom and tenderness.

As my friend Richard Rohr said, "If we don't learn to transform the pain, we'll transfer it.

I felt great empathy for my friend, as one form of cancer after another emerged to challenge him. I felt sympathy for his suffering that surely clawed at his daily routines, always active and busy, but he rarely verbalized complaints while courageously challenging his archenemy. He met pain and physical decline with 600-calorie workouts; he discarded anxieties somewhere along innumerable running trails; he faced death by running through life at full stride.

It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.

Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.

Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smile again.

It would take me a long time to understand how systems inflict pain and hardship in people's lives and to learn that being kind in an unjust system is not enough.

Estrella realized words could become as excruciating as rusted nails piercing the heels of her bare feet.

I deserve more, like a man who can tell me he loves me and accept that life includes pain without hiding from that.

Now he was singed by pain. When he finally opened his eyes he saw, at the end of the narrow green path, dazzlingly bright light. There she is, he thought breathlessly, there she is. With a shout of joy and deliverance he plunged forward to meet the light.

That's a horrible dream! Major Sanderson cried. It's filled with pain and mutilation and death. I'm sure you had it just to spite me. You know, I'm not even sure you belong in the Army, with a disgusting dream like that.

If there were God, never would He have permitted what I have seen with my own eyes

ÎÈ™i împreun? mâinile È™i îÈ™i atinse palmele una de alta. Nu erau moarte È™i era de-ajuns s? le deschid? È™i s? le închid? ca s? simt? durerea vieÈ›ii.

Life is like a pendulum. It swings back and forth between pain and relief. Without ceasing, endless. She

Si se diera el caso de un dolor insoportable que no se pudiera paliar, podría pedir que me sedaran. Así abandonaría durmiendo esta vida y este mundo. Prefiero eso que tener que suicidarme. Es algo que no quiero hacer, por mis seres queridos. Si estuviera solo en la vida, podría ser una opción, pero hoy por hoy no lo es.

The patient says, Doctor, it hurts when I do this. The doctor says, Then don't do that!

quand le monde offre tant de motifs de joie, souffrir est le fait d'un imbécile

Who can listen to a story of loneliness and despair without taking the risk of experiencing similar pains in his own heart and even losing his precious peace of mind? In short: "Who can take away suffering without entering it?

There are two extremes to avoid: being completely absorbed in your pain and being distracted by so many things that you stay far away from the wound you want to heal.

The main question is "Do you own your pain?" As long as you do not own your pain—that is, integrate your pain into your way of being in the world—the danger exists that you will use the other to seek healing for yourself. When you speak to others about your pain without fully owning it, you expect something from them that they cannot give. As a result, you will feel frustrated, and those you wanted to help will feel confused, disappointed, or even further burdened.

I am convinced that healing is often so difficult because we don't want to know the pain.

But human withdrawal is a very painful and lonely process, because it forces us to face directly our own condition in all its beauty as well as misery.

Your true identity is as a child of God. This is the identity you have to accept. Once you have claimed it and settled in it, you can live in a world that gives you much joy as well as pain. You can receive the praise as well as the blame that comes to you as an opportunity for strengthening your basic identity, because the identity that makes you free is anchored beyond all human praise and blame. You belong to God, and it is as a child of God that you are sent into the world.