Quotes about Pain

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.

The self-indulgent man, then, craves for all pleasant things or those that are most pleasant . . . Hence he is pained both when he fails to get them and when he is craving for them, for appetite involves pain.

Maturity' really means: being very unsurprised by, and calm around, pain and disappointment.

Depression is very real. It'll back you into a dark room, slap you across the face, spit in your eyes, scream in your ears, and punch you in the gut - Until you give in.

But wherefore thou alone wherefore with thee came not all hell broke loose Is pain to them less pain, less to be fled, or thou than they less hardy to endure courageous chief, The first in flight from pain, hadst thou alleged to thy deserted host this cause of flight, Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive.

Hell has no benefits, only torture.

Thus the Lord, by pain, sickness, and disappointments, by breaking our cisterns and withering our gourds—weakens our attachment to this world, and makes the thought of leaving it, more easy and more desirable.

The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and suffering are not ultimate. God is. Satan, the great lover of evil and suffering, is not sovereign. God is.

The only person in history who did not deserve to suffer, suffered most.

O Father, touch us with fresh faith that we might believe the incredible. The very pain of Christ that makes us despair is our salvation. Open our fearful hearts to receive the gospel. Waken the dead parts of our hearts that cannot feel what must be felt-that we are loved with the deepest, strongest, purest love in the universe.