Pain Sayings and Quotes
As humans, we like to avoid pain and suffering as much as possible. Unfortunately life has other plans. There’s no such thing as a pain-free existence. We are not robots. Perhaps though, we cannot know happiness without experiencing pain. Below you’ll find a collection of wise and inspirational pain quotes, sayings, and proverbs.
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
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We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
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Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.
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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
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When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.
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I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
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Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment.
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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Pain is what the world inflicts upon us. Suffering is our emotional reaction when we fail to make the difficult conscious choice to choose Joy.
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If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
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God gave us pain to remind us we are alive, so we will learn to value the joys and beauty of the world.
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Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
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An hour of pain is as long as a day of pleasure.
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Pain and pleasure like light and darkness, succeed each other.
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Pain is immune to empathy...like love.
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Pain is like a love affair. When it’s over it’s over.
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People in pain are like the wandering minstrels of the Renaissance. Any occupied space becomes their court. If the story’s told often enough, perhaps the demons will become manifest. Made visible and mastered though words.
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Even pain has its joy.
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The pain of the little finger is felt by the whole body.
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Pain is the only evil I know about. It’s the only one I can fight.
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Sometimes pain can drive a man harder than pleasure.
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He was wise to the ways of pain. He had to be, for he felt none.
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It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced. The bond that binds us is beyond choice. We are brothers. We are brothers in what we share. In pain, which each of us must suffer alone, in hunger, in poverty, in hope, we know our brotherhood.
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The best way of handling pain was to study it objectively.
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Pain can be controlled, you just disconnect it.
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Who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain larks you, but too deep to see.
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Pain is the universe unguarded.
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Pain is the substance of life and the root of personality, because only suffering is a person.
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There is nothing more suitable for the purposes of the universe than pain; never a day when you suffer is a lost day.
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Men are more sensitive to pain than to pleasures.
