Quotes about Pain
Genuine surrender says, "Father, if this problem, pain, sickness, or circumstance is needed to fulfill your purpose and glory in my life or in another's, please don't take it away." This level of maturity does not come easy.
— Rick Warren
No, that trauma you faced was not easy. And God wept that it hurt you so; But it was allowed to shape your heart So that into his likeness you'd grow.
— Rick Warren
Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.
— Jerry B. Jenkins
But remember, continuing a wrong relationship only increases the pain when it finally does end.
— Joshua Harris
Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.
— Stephen Covey
Unless a man has pity he is not truly a man. If a man has not wept at the worlds pain he is only half a man, and there will always be pain in the world, knowing this does not mean that a man shall dispair. A good man will seek to take pain out of things. A foolish man will not even notice it, except in himself, and the poor unfortunate evil man will drive pain deeper into things and spread it about wherever he goes.
— William Saroyan
A deep distress hath humanized my Soul.
— William Wordsworth
A deep distress hath humanised my soul.
— William Wordsworth
I have slept Weeping, and weeping I have waked; my tears Have flow'd as if my body were not such As others are, and I could never die.
— William Wordsworth
Long ago, in the infancy of civilization, man learned that there were drugs in Nature, cell products of the growth or transformation of "our brother organisms, the plants," by whose agency pain was turned to pleasure. By the aid of these outside influences he could clear "today of past regrets and future fears," and strike out from the sad "calendar unborn tomorrow and dead yesterday.
— David Starr Jordan
Jealousy is like a raging toothache. One cannot do anything when one is jealous, not even sit down. Once can only come and go. Back and forth.
— Milan Kundera
Unkind people need your kindness the most. They advertise their pain.
— Rick Warren