Quotes about Pain
A wound won't heal if you keep touching it.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Pain helps the body grow.Riddles help the mind grow.Loss helps the heart grow.Temptations help the soul grow.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Gray hairs signify old age, not wisdom.Muscles signify strength, not health.Laughter signifies amusement, not joy.Weeping signifies pain, not weakness.Smiling signifies courteousness, not love.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Suffering is wisdom's school teacher.
— Lauren Kate
Surely again, to heal men's wounds by music's spell.
— Euripides
Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.
— George Eliot
Is quick relief worth it? No, it isn't. I'd rather take the pain myself so they won't have to.
— Terri Blackstock
His tears reached deep inside and tore great chunks from what was left of his heart.
— Terri Blackstock
to dedicate oneself as a Victim of Love is not to be dedicated to sweetness and consolations; it is to offer oneself to all that is painful and bitter, because Love lives only by sacrifice . . . and the more we would surrender ourselves to Love, the more we must surrender ourselves to suffering.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Even as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will be the most perfect hate. Wherefore as the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods. Consequently the sight of the happiness of the saints will give them very great pain.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
If for no other reason, God sometimes allows us to suffer pain so that we can comfort others suffering in a like situation.
— Norman Geisler