Quotes about Pain
Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self pity and pain or sorrow.
— John Calvin
Pain and trials are almost constant companions, but never enemies. They drive me into His sovereign arms. There He takes my disappointments and works everything together for good.
— Kay Arthur
The pain was on the surface, so it took all his will to reach upward. But maybe that's what God asked of man. To reach upward even when it's hard.
— Mary Connealy
He knew, for the moment, that he felt affection for Roark; an affection that held pain, astonishment and helplessness.
— Ayn Rand
Shall I tell you the difference between you and your statue? No. But I want to. It's startling to see the same elements used in two compositions with opposite themes. Everything about you in that statue is the theme of exaltation. But your own theme is suffering. Suffering? I'm not conscious of having shown that. You haven't. That's what I meant. No happy person can be quite so impervious to pain.
— Ayn Rand
Beneath the layers of hurt, beneath the ragged laughter, I heard a willingness to endure. Endure—and make music that wasn't there before.
— Barack Obama
The trick is not caring that it hurts.
— Barack Obama
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
— Barbara Kingsolver
my heart felt like a soft, damaged place in my chest, like a bruise on a peach.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Maybe it's true what they say, that as long as you're nursing your own pain, whatever it is, you'll turn your back on others in the same boat. You'll want to believe the fix they're in is their own damn fault.
— Barbara Kingsolver
They wanted payback. I thought about what Rose said, wanting to see the rest of us hurt, because she was hurting. You have to wonder how much of the whole world's turning is fueled by that very fire.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Writing, which was both painful and palliative for me, turned out to be my own way of giving blood in a crisis. I can only hope this unit of words will have a longer shelf life than the forty-two days of a unit of blood, as this critical time blends seamlessly into the next one.
— Barbara Kingsolver