Quotes about Pain

They are not sorrows, so much as terrible things.

It made him feel as a wound does that you think you cannot bear. But you can bear anything, he thought.

But why must all the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?

I think you have more fun as a human being even though it is much more painful.

It is not bad," Santiago said. "And pain does not matter to a man.

Love changes everything. Days are longer, words mean more. Love changes everything. Pain is deeper than before. Love can turn your world around, and that world will last forever.

That would hurt the one I love the most.

Your pain isn't a trophy to show off. It's not a story to tell. It's potentially poison to your soul. To refuse to forgive is to choose to self-destruct.

We all pretend for a while or for a lifetime. But pretending is not living...I believe that God meant for life to take our breath away, sometimes because of the sheer joy of it all and sometimes because of the severe pain. To choose living over pretending means that we will know both.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

I want to see Christian fiction speak to the hard and real issues that tear people's lives apart.

Pain is the doorway into deep. Know what I mean? And tragedy is nature's great purifier. It burns away the fakeness, fear and arrogance that is of the ego. Returns us to our brilliance and genius, if you have the courage to go into that which wounds you. Suffering yields many rewards, including empathy, originality, relatability and authenticity.