60 Pain quotes about life that will help you become wiser. Here are the best pain quotes to read from famous people that will surely inspire you. Pain caused by emotional distress can last longer compared to its physical counterpart. It can also be deeply felt and will be hard to recover from. May these quotes about pain help you acquire insight into dealing with pain. While being hurt can't be avoided, experiencing pain will make your future self stronger and wiser. Share these deep pain quotes with friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them as well.
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1. “Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.” – J.K. Rowling
2. “The worst wounds, the deadliest of them, aren't the ones people see on the outside. They're the ones that make us bleed internally.” – Sherrilyn Kenyon
3. “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” – James Baldwin
4. “People go through so much pain trying to avoid pain.” – Neil Strauss
5. “Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.” – Benjamin Alire Sáenz
6. “Sacrifice today for tomorrows betterment, you are willing to pay those payments with pain, because pain is just a message when you are fixing something that’s insufficient in your life.” – Greg Plitt
7. “Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.” – Roy T. Bennett
8. “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” – Marcus Aurelius
9. “The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.” – Jodi Picoult
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10. “Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.” – David Richo
11. “We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.” – Paulo Coelho
12. “Remember anything you want that’s valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.” – Tony Robbins
13. “Don't be scared. Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.” – Gayle Forman
14. “Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.” – Rabindranath Tagore
15. “We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.” – Jim Rohn
16. “I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.” – Wm. Paul Young
17. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey
18. “You may have had unfair things happen to you, but the depth of your pain is an indication of the height of your future.” – Joel Osteen
19. “There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.” – Laurell K. Hamilton
20. “What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside.” – Wayne Dyer
21. “Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.” – George R.R. Martin
22. “It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.” – Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
23. “The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.” – Ernest Hemingway
24. “When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.” – Jane Austen
25. “One thing you can't hide is when you're crippled inside.” – John Lennon
26. “One word will free us of all the weight and pain of life, that word is love.” – Sophocles
27. “Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.” – Bob Dylan
28. “Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.” – Bo Bennett
29. “Sit with the pain until it passes, and you will be calmer for the next one.” – Naval Ravikant
30. “He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that's what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.” – Hannah Harrington
31. “Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.” – Ovid
32. “Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take can sometimes be the most painful.” – José N. Harris
33. “I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.” – Jodi Picoult
34. “Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.” – Tony Robbins
35. “Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.” – Joseph Campbell
36. “You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.” – Shaun Hick
37. “These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.” – Rumi
38. “No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.” – Anonymous
39. “Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out, it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.” – Robert Service
40. “Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you.” – Lev Grossman
41. “Often it’s the deepest pain which empowers you to grow into your highest self.” – Anonymous
42. “Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.” – Angelina Jolie
43. “If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it, to love it. Some endure it through drowning it in sorrow, or by making themselves forget. Others turn it into anger.” – Sarah J. Maas
44. “Just like there's always time for pain, there's always time for healing.” – Jennifer Brown
45. “When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.” – Alanis Morissette
46. “When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.” – Kahlil Gibran
47. “The prettiest smile hides the deepest secrets. The prettiest eyes have cried the most tears. And the kindest hearts have felt the most pain.” – Anonymous
48. “If you're never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you'll never get better.” – Angela Duckworth
49. “Forgetting about our mistakes and our wounds isn't enough to make them disappear.” – Ai Yazawa
50. “I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness. There are things that haunt us our entire lives; we are unable to let them go. The good times seem almost effervescent and dreamlike in comparison with the times that didn’t go so well.” – Henry Rollins
51. “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” – Khalil Gibran
52. “Some are born virtuous, some become virtuous. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become good is like walking on a double-edged sword; it takes a longer time and is more painful.” – Umera Ahmed
53. “The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.” – Bell Hooks
54. “If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.” – Eckhart Tolle
55. “Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.” – Kahlil Gibran
56. “Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.” – Mary Tyler Moore
57. “The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.” – Aristotle
58. “It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.” – Julius Caesar
59. “The climb might be tough and challenging,but the view is worth it. There is a purpose for that pain; you just can't always see it right away.” – Victoria Arlen
60. “Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have, life itself.” – Walter Anderson
2. “The worst wounds, the deadliest of them, aren't the ones people see on the outside. They're the ones that make us bleed internally.” – Sherrilyn Kenyon
3. “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” – James Baldwin
4. “People go through so much pain trying to avoid pain.” – Neil Strauss
5. “Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.” – Benjamin Alire Sáenz
6. “Sacrifice today for tomorrows betterment, you are willing to pay those payments with pain, because pain is just a message when you are fixing something that’s insufficient in your life.” – Greg Plitt
7. “Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.” – Roy T. Bennett
8. “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” – Marcus Aurelius
9. “The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.” – Jodi Picoult
11. “We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.” – Paulo Coelho
12. “Remember anything you want that’s valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.” – Tony Robbins
13. “Don't be scared. Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.” – Gayle Forman
14. “Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.” – Rabindranath Tagore
15. “We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.” – Jim Rohn
16. “I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.” – Wm. Paul Young
17. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey
18. “You may have had unfair things happen to you, but the depth of your pain is an indication of the height of your future.” – Joel Osteen
19. “There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.” – Laurell K. Hamilton
20. “What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside.” – Wayne Dyer
21. “Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.” – George R.R. Martin
22. “It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.” – Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
23. “The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.” – Ernest Hemingway
24. “When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.” – Jane Austen
25. “One thing you can't hide is when you're crippled inside.” – John Lennon
26. “One word will free us of all the weight and pain of life, that word is love.” – Sophocles
27. “Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.” – Bob Dylan
28. “Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.” – Bo Bennett
29. “Sit with the pain until it passes, and you will be calmer for the next one.” – Naval Ravikant
30. “He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that's what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.” – Hannah Harrington
31. “Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.” – Ovid
32. “Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take can sometimes be the most painful.” – José N. Harris
33. “I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.” – Jodi Picoult
34. “Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.” – Tony Robbins
35. “Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.” – Joseph Campbell
36. “You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.” – Shaun Hick
37. “These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.” – Rumi
38. “No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.” – Anonymous
39. “Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out, it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.” – Robert Service
40. “Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you.” – Lev Grossman
41. “Often it’s the deepest pain which empowers you to grow into your highest self.” – Anonymous
42. “Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.” – Angelina Jolie
43. “If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it, to love it. Some endure it through drowning it in sorrow, or by making themselves forget. Others turn it into anger.” – Sarah J. Maas
44. “Just like there's always time for pain, there's always time for healing.” – Jennifer Brown
45. “When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.” – Alanis Morissette
46. “When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.” – Kahlil Gibran
47. “The prettiest smile hides the deepest secrets. The prettiest eyes have cried the most tears. And the kindest hearts have felt the most pain.” – Anonymous
48. “If you're never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you'll never get better.” – Angela Duckworth
49. “Forgetting about our mistakes and our wounds isn't enough to make them disappear.” – Ai Yazawa
50. “I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness. There are things that haunt us our entire lives; we are unable to let them go. The good times seem almost effervescent and dreamlike in comparison with the times that didn’t go so well.” – Henry Rollins
51. “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” – Khalil Gibran
52. “Some are born virtuous, some become virtuous. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become good is like walking on a double-edged sword; it takes a longer time and is more painful.” – Umera Ahmed
53. “The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.” – Bell Hooks
54. “If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.” – Eckhart Tolle
55. “Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.” – Kahlil Gibran
56. “Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.” – Mary Tyler Moore
57. “The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.” – Aristotle
58. “It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.” – Julius Caesar
59. “The climb might be tough and challenging,but the view is worth it. There is a purpose for that pain; you just can't always see it right away.” – Victoria Arlen
60. “Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have, life itself.” – Walter Anderson