PAIN QUOTES
quotations about pain
It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Diary
That's the thing about pain.... It demands to be felt.
JOHN GREEN
The Fault in Our Stars
Pain is a part of growing up. It's how we learn.
DAN BROWN
Angels & Demons
The power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.
ORSON SCOTT CARD
Ender's Game
Pain is rewarding, in every capacity.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA
Rolling Stone, August 24, 2006
I hate all pain,
Given or received; we have enough within us
The meanest vassal as the loftiest monarch,
Not to add to each other's natural burden
Of mortal misery.
LORD BYRON
Sardanapalus
A little bit of pain is good for you. I feel alive. Everybody needs struggle. Once you overcome an obstacle, you springboard into the future. Life is interesting and short and it's not supposed to be easy, and if it is, you're probably just in denial and you're existing here like a zombie.
PAMELA ANDERSON
interview
Pain revealed the paltry dimensions of love. The paltry dimensions of everything, in fact, except pain.
GLEN DUNCAN
A Day and a Night and a Day
Pain ... after you've lived with it long enough, isn't pain anymore. It's something else.
SAMUEL R. DELANY
Nova
Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly ... and if left unresolved for very long, you can almost forget that you were ever created to fly in the first place.
WM. PAUL YOUNG
The Shack
Mortal! that cull'st the flowers of life,
Think not to escape the thorn.
WILLIAM B. TAPPAN
"The Thorn of Life"
Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows.
DEAN KOONTZ
Velocity
No pain, no gain.
JANE FONDA
Jane Fonda's Workout
Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain.
HORACE MANN
A Few Thoughts for a Young Man
Wounds make better lessons than lectures.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON
Dune: House Harkonnen
We wince under little pains, but nature in us, through the excitement attendant upon them, braces us to endure with fortitude greater agonies.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
There are no shortcuts ... in life or in love. This pain must be felt. The alternative is much worse. It's what makes us special, what makes us beautiful, what... what makes us worthy; the pain of how we love. But that pain is accompanied by something else, isn't it? Hope. With your pain, there is hope. And that is where you are. Somewhere between agony and optimism and prayer. So you're human. You're alive. And that is what we have.
DR. JUDE BAR-SHALOM
"Love Is Difficult", Brothers & Sisters, 2007
Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.
ECKHART TOLLE
The Power of Now
Some moments in a life, and they needn't be very long or seem very important, can make up for so much in that life; can redeem, justify, that pain, that bewilderment, with which one lives, and invest one with the courage not only to endure it, but to profit from it; some moments teach one the price of the human connection: if one can live with one's own pain, then one respects the pain of others, and so, briefly, but transcendentally, we can release each other from pain.
JAMES BALDWIN
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
It's much easier to wear your pain on the outside.
E. L. JAMES
Fifty Shades of Freed