Quotes About Pain

Memories, you see, hurt. The good ones most of all.

There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.

Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.

Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.

Sometimes wisdom comes from suffering, and sometimes suffering comes from wisdom.

We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.

Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.

There is no such thing as a peace of soul approach to religion. It makes of God a gigantic Bayer Aspirin; take God three times a day and you won't feel any pain.

Knowledge is Bought only with a weary care, And wisdom means a world of pain.

When you have trained your mind and your nerves to realise this idea of the world's nondependence on you or on anybody, there will then be no reaction in the form of pain resulting from work.

There is a glory in happiness, there is a glory in suffering.

He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

The Yogis say that the man who has discriminating powers, the man of good sense, sees through all that are called pleasure and pain, and knows that they come to all, and that one follows and melts into the other; he sees that men follow an ignis fatuus all their lives, and never succeed in fulfilling their desires.

After a time man finds that it is not happiness, but knowledge, towards which he is going, and that both pleasure and pain are great teachers, and that he learns as much from evil as from good.

It was easy to see that I was recreating my painful history every time I talked about it.

We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.

They were struggling and often in quite a lot of pain and concern, but still, they were all right. I thought to myself as I looked around, 'What we're all doing is we're all managing gracefully.' [p.5]

Right Understanding means feeling terrible, remembering pain is finite, and taking some solace from that remembering. And, when things are pleasant, even splendidly pleasant, remembering impermanence doesn't diminish the experience--it enhances it [p. 33]

Often, it is the thought that pain will never end that makes it seem unbearable.

The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part.