Quotes about Pain

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

Real love—it's the best, most painful thing God ever did for us.

But it seems that in the end all that matters is finding a way to survive the grief and trusting in the goodness of life beyond the pain.

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.

Emotional pain is such a strange feeling. You can forget you're in it—or try to, anyway—and then it sneaks up and finds its way to the surface.

All pain we experience is intended to move us closer to the goal of being holy as He is holy.

Listening to other people's needs is listening to God. Noticing simple, natural beauty, hearing music, even confronting the challenge of pain and problems - that can all be listening to God too.

To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our own terms, to lead a more passionate, full, and delightful life than that, we must realize we can endure a lot of pain and pleasure for the sake of finding out who we are and what this world is.

We enter this world with birth pains and we leave with similar pains of death.

That freedom is lost in Hell.