Quotes about Pain
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth -look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Love until it hurts. Real love is always painful and hurts; then it is real and pure.
— Mother Teresa
No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
— Marquis de Sade
Daily there have to be many troubles and trials in every house, city, and country. No station in life is free of suffering and pain, both from your own, like your wife or children or household help or subjects, and from the outside, from your neighbors and all sorts of accidental trouble.
— Martin Luther
The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow with an inner poise, and to absorb the most intense pain without abandoning our sense of hope.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
— Samuel Johnson
God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.
— CS Lewis
How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?
— Oscar Wilde
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
— George Bernard Shaw
If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.
— Anonymous
Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.
— John of the Cross
The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love someone else.
— Anonymous