Quotes about Pain

So also Augustine, "The suffering at which you cry, is medicine, not punishment; chastisement, not condemnation. Do not drive away the rod, if you would not be driven away from the inheritance. Know, brethren, that the whole of that misery of the human race, under which the world groans, is a medicinal pain, not a penal sentence

Death is a solemn event for everyone. It is the winding up of all earthly plans & expectations. It is a separation from all we have loved and lived with. It is often accompanied by much bodily pain and distress. It opens the door to judgement and eternity - to heaven or to hell. It is an event after which there is no change, or space for repentance

For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.

When I think of the happiness that is in store for me, every sorrow, every pain becomes dear to me.

There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.

Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.

you cannot let the pain of the past destroy the happiness of the future.

Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.

Happiness is not being pained in body nor troubled in mind.