Quotes about Pain

I have pain; there is no arguing against sense, but I have peace, I have peace.

leave me in peace, let me sleep one night at least without my pillow being wet with tears, my eyes burning and my head throbbing

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

Pain is the seasoning that gives pleasure its flavor.

Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust. Hatred alone is immortal.

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.

For the Life of the Creature, whilst only creaturely, and possessing nothing but itself, is Hell; that is, it is all Pain and Want and Distress. Now nothing, in the Nature of the Thing, can make the least Alteration in this creaturely Life, nothing can help it to be in Light and Love, in Peace and Goodness, but the Union of God with it, and the Life of God working in it, because nothing but God is Light, and Love, and heavenly Goodness.

Oh for holiness! Oh for more of God in my soul! Oh this pleasing pain! It makes my soul press after God.

It hurt me, and pained my very heart, that any body should show me any respect. Alas! methought, how sadly they are deceived in me! how miserably would they be disappointed, if they knew my inside! Oh my heart!

God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.

The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.

Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it.