Quotes about Pain

People have so much pain inside them that they're not even aware of.

When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.

My experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

People lie to themselves all the time about what they've been through and what it means - I'm no exception. But you write those lies down - lies that really matter to you and that are really painful to let go of because they've become a part of who you are - and they don't work.

It is painful beyond measure to lose a loving father and grandmother to violence.

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.

Lewis Smedes sums up the dangers of superficial forgiveness: "We will not take healing action against unfair pain until we own the pain we want to heal. It is not enough to feel pain. We need to appropriate the pain we feel: Be conscious of it, take it on, and take it as our own … I worry about fast forgivers. They tend to forgive quickly in order to avoid their pain.

We numb our pain through denial, blaming, rationalizations, addictions, and avoidance.

When we deny our pain, losses, and feelings year after year, we become less and less human.

Pain has an amazing ability to open us to new truth and to get us moving.

Unhealed wounds open us up to habitual sin against God and others.

Mature spiritual leadership is forged in the crucible of difficult conversations, the pressure of conflicted relationships, the pain of setbacks, and dark nights of the soul.