Chronic Pain Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old chronic pain quotes, chronic pain sayings, and chronic pain proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Living in the past is like choosing to cling to a chronic illness. Asa Don Brown
Positive self-talk is to emotional pain as pain pill is to physical pain. Edmond Mbiaka
Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain. Gene Tierney
Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting. Siri Hustvedt
One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives. Polly Toynbee
The demon that you can swallow gives you it's power, and the greater life's pain, the greater life's reply. Joseph Campbell
You don't know pain until you're staring at yourself in the mirror with tears streaming down your face and you're begging yourself to just hold on and be strong. Anonymous
Chronic pain shatters productive lives. Chronic pain almost always is accompanied by depression, anxiety, frustration, fatigue, isolation, and lowered self-esteem. Jed Diamond
Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain. Bob Dylan
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. Lance Armstrong
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. Kahlil Gibran
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. Kenji Miyazawa
Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes. George Orwell
Chronic pain or other challenges are invitations; gifts that challenge us to learn how to manage the mind. Cheryl Richardson
My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain. Charlie Chaplin
What a person did when they were in pain said a lot about them. Veronics Roth
It's a complete physical, mental and emotional assault on your body. Jamie Wingo
Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause is healed. Suffering is pain that we hold on to. It comes from the mind's mysterious instinct to believe that pain is good, or that it cannot be escaped, or that the person deserves it. Deepak Chopra
There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain. R.D. Laing
If your body is screaming in pain, whether the pain is muscular contractions, anxiety, depression, asthma or arthritis, a first step in releasing the pain may be making the connection between your body pain and the cause. Beliefs are physical. A thought held long enough and repeated enough becomes a belief. The belief then becomes biology. Marilyn Van Derbur
Pain will come with time, but time will heal the pain. Anthony Liccione
If you can sit with your pain, listen to your pain and respect your pain, in time you will move through your pain. Bryant McGill
Pain is when you're slowly dying on the inside and you're way too weak to speak about it so you keep silent and suffer alone. Anonymous
God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives. Felt weakness deepens dependence on Christ for strength each day. The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away. To live with your ‘thorn' uncomplainingly, that is, sweet, patient, and free in heart to love and help others, even though every day you feel weak, is true sanctification. It is true healing for the spirit. It is a supreme victory of grace. J. I. Packer
The body cannot take chronic terror; it must defend itself by refusing to harbor the spirit that wants to soar through it and experience life to the fullest. Carmen Aguirre
That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt. John Green
You feel your strength in the experience of pain. Jim Morrison
Avoiding our pain is needlessly exhausting. Pain can not be killed. When we attempt to bury our pain, it rises up from the grave of our emotions, haunting us, until we acknowledge its presence. We can heal our pain when we allow it to move through us. Jaeda Dewalt
Generally speaking, chronic pain and other physical and mental disorders have been categorized as 'silent disorders' in the workplace simply because most employees are afraid of the consequences if employers find out. Wayne Hochwarter
Pain may create misery, pain may give you sorrow. It may trouble you today, but will be gone tomorrow. Anonymous
Chronic pain can be very lonely. It can have a shame-based quality. Jennifer Grey
Consciousness is the chronic pain of life, and all higher organisms suffer it every waking moment. David Marusek
If you keep your heart open, that same pain can become a purifying pain, a strengthening pain. If we choose forgiveness over bitterness, that pain can heal instead of hurt. Instead of a pain that divides, it can be a pain that binds. Instead of a pain that breaks us down, it can be a pain that builds us up. Seth Adam Smith
Find a place inside where there's joy, and that will burn out the pain. Joseph Campbell
Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. what you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain. Saint Bartholomew
It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience. Julius Caesar
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. Aeschylus
Pain is weakness leaving the body. Chesty Puller
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. Ernest Hemingway
Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word. George R. R. Martin
If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved. George Santayana
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Haruki Murakami
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. James A. Baldwin
The weaker we feel, the harder we lean on God. And the harder we lean the stronger we grow. Joni Eareckson Tada
Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain. Khalil Gibran
There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds. Laurell K. Hamilton
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. Lord Byron
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it, and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. Marcus Aurelius
The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea. Martin Luther King
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. Mary Tyler Moore
Be patient and tough someday this pain will be useful to you. Ovid
To heal our wounds, we need courage to face them. Paulo Coelho
The essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something usually ourselves. Pema Chodron
Pain any pain emotional, physical, mental has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories. We would be more alive if we did more of this and Life would be more lovely if we did less of that. Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away. Peter McWilliams
It has been said, time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone. Rose Kennedy
It's easy to look at people and make quick judgments about them, their present and their past, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceberg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul. Sherrilyn Kenyon
It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it. W. Somerset Maugham

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