Quotes About Pain

I think that any time of great pain is a time of transformation, a fertile time to plant new seeds.

Everybody wants happiness, and nobody wants pain, but you can't have a rainbow without a little rain.

There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.

When I think of the happiness that is in store for me, every sorrow, every pain becomes dear to me.

The person who will give you unexplained happiness, will also be the reason for your unexplained sadness.

No one can take away your pain, so don't let anyone take away your happiness.

Next to the highest peak of happiness, there's the deepest gap of pain.

Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.

That cotton trade was almost the deal breaker for me. It was at that point that I said, "Mr. Stupid, why risk everything on one trade? Why not make your life a pursuit of happiness rather than pain?

We don't even ask happiness, just a little less pain.

Laughter can relieve tension, soothe the pain of disappointment, and strengthen the spirit for the formidable tasks that always lie ahead.

In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness.

Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.

Joy came always after pain.

There is no greater misery than false joys.

There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.

Both hurting and happiness make me feel more alive, but as I get older it seems that hurting's the low hanging fruit. So I pick it.

Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

Once I wanted total happiness - now I will settle for a little less pain.

I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.

Even while you are in doubt, there will be an answer you will arrive to. Even while you are in pain, your happiness will be waiting.

Pain is easy to write. In pain we're all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness?

For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.

Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.