Quotes about Pain

The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.

The holiness of the saints will not excuse them from sufferings.

It was more for Christ to suffer one hour than for us to have suffered forever.

What I know for sure is that there is no strength without challenge, adversity, resistance, and often pain.

The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one's heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one's heart to stone.

How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

Love is easily killed.

A burnt child loves the fire.

Now and then, however, he is horribly thoughtless, and seems to take a real delight in giving me pain. Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.

sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it

No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.

All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.