Quotes about Pain

Pain too is just a scary mask: look under it and you will see. The body sometimes suffers, but relief is never far behind.

My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age 18. I wanted to throttle the man, but she was in love, so all I could do was hope, pray and cry.

It's hard to see your wife deteriorate in front of your eyes.

In the scriptures, we are told you can't really understand happiness unless you understand sadness. You don't know pleasure if you don't know pain. It's part of life. So can you learn something from somebody who has gone from success to success to success? I don't think so.

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.

When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain.

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

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.