Quotes about Pain
What kind of second-rate grief is it that permits them to walk?
- John Updike
The sickness of a family member, friend or neighbor is a call to Christians to demonstrate true compassion, that gentle and persevering sharing in another's pain.
- Pope John Paul II
It's better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
- John Ortberg
Have we the humility to thank our Father for the gift of pain?
- Elisabeth Elliot
Pain is Pain. Broken is Broken. FEAR is the Biggest Disability of all. And will PARALYZE you More Than Being in a Wheelchair.
- Nick Vujicic
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear.
- William Saroyan
I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have life itself.
- Walter Anderson
Death and pain are not frightening, it's the fear of pain and death we need to fear. Which is why we praise the poet who wrote, 'Death is not fearful, but dying like a coward is.'
- Marcus Aurelius
Fear is more pain than is the pain it fears
- LM Montgomery
Forgiveness of sin strikes the root of all pain.
- TB Joshua
Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone.
- Desmond Tutu