Quotes about Pain
For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.
— George Eliot
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
— Khalil Gibran
There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.
— Isabel Allende
When I think of the happiness that is in store for me, every sorrow, every pain becomes dear to me.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.
— Dante Alighieri
Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.
— CS Lewis
Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
— Henry Ward Beecher
you cannot let the pain of the past destroy the happiness of the future.
— Tracie Peterson
Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Happiness is not being pained in body nor troubled in mind.
— Thomas Jefferson
History is a bath of blood.
— William James
Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair
— Timothy Keller