Quotes about Pain
Painful experiences can be used to better prepare us for heaven. You see, if we let it, even pain can shape us—make us better people—get rid of some of the ugly parts of our humanity.
— Janette Oke
Ya hurt, Joshsh?" I thought that was quite apparent, but for someone like Sam who spent a good deal of his time on the ground, perhaps it was a reasonable question.
— Janette Oke
Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.
— CS Lewis
God is at work in the mess. That's the message of the Bible. That's why the Bible is not pretty. That's why it's grimy, because God is working in the mess. He's working in the tears.
— Matt Chandler
This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
An aching tooth is better out than in. To lose a rotting member is a gain.
— Richard Baxter
In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has to teach us.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination, made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing by pain, danced like some foul puppet on a stand and grinned through moving masks.
— Oscar Wilde
Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return.
— Oscar Wilde
The life that was to make his soul would mar his body.
— Oscar Wilde
From your silken hair to your delicate feet you are perfection to me. Pleasure hides love from us, but pain reveals it in its essence.
— Oscar Wilde
out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star, there is pain
— Oscar Wilde