Quotes about Pain
We often find comfort in telling what is painful in actual experience.
— St. Basil
If we are addicted to people's approval, we will always experience pain when that approval is withdrawn--as it always is.
— Joyce Meyer
You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy.
— Carol Burnett
Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.
— Eugene Peterson
The problem of suffering is not about something but about someone.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
— Mae West
This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
but the sword Of MICHAEL from the Armorie of God Was giv'n him temperd so, that neither keen Nor solid might resist that edge: it met The sword of SATAN with steep force to smite Descending, and in half cut sheere, nor staid, But with swift wheele reverse, deep entring shar'd All his right side; then SATAN first knew pain
— John Milton
Confounded, though immortal. But his doom, reserved him to more wrath; for now the thought both of lost happiness and lasting pain torments him.
— John Milton
But his doom 54: Reserv'd him to more wrath; for now the thought 55: Both of lost happiness and lasting pain 56: Torments him; round he throws his baleful eyes 57: That witness'd huge affliction and dismay 58: Mixt with obdurate pride and stedfast hate:
— John Milton
but the sword Of MICHAEL from the Armorie of God Was giv'n him temperd so, that neither keen Nor solid might resist that edge: it met The sword of SATAN with steep force to smite Descending, and in half cut sheere, nor staid, But with swift wheele reverse, deep entring shar'd All his right side; then SATAN first knew pain
— John Milton
Of thee/ Pains only in child-bearing were foretold; soon recompensed with joy, fruit of thy womb.
— John Milton