Quotes about Pain
Hell is life drying up.
— Joseph Campbell
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
— St. Augustine
Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.
— Samuel Johnson
Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.
— Oscar Wilde
Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.
— Mark Twain
There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.
— Henry Ward Beecher
God will make right all that is wrong, He will take away the lingering effect of sin and what's not right in our lives. He knows how painful life in this world can be.
— Joshua Harris
Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.
— Margaret Atwood
I see that a lot in my own life and in the lives of others.Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God?
— Max Lucado
Try to see the joyful side of life. One must see the pain of life with clear eyes, and help all he can; but there is also lots of joy, and on should see that, too.
— Norman Vincent Peale
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.
— Thomas Jefferson
Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been on to more dearly than Him.
— Tullian Tchividjian