Quotes About Pain

Who except the gods can live without any pain?

Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

"Okay, I have arthritis, and this is the way arthritis is." Take pain as it comes and you can better master it.

Resistance causes pain and lethargy. It is when we practice acceptance that new possibilities appear.

Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Suffering is also one of the ways of knowing you're alive.

Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.

True knowledge comes only through suffering.

Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you.

Those things that hurt, instruct.

When pain ends, gain ends too.

Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break.

In every pang that rends the heart The Man of Sorrows had a part.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and boughr jewelry.

In the race for love, I was scratched.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Life is a battle in which we fall from wounds we receive in running away.

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

Both choices are painful, but only one is therapeutic.

Pain is part of being alive, and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily unbearable, and we need to be taught that.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.