Quotes about Pain

All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain.

Shame usually follows a pattern—a cycle of self-recrimination and lies that claims life after life. First, we experience an intensely painful event. Second, we believe the lie that our pain and failure is who we are—not just something we've done, or had done to us—and we experience shame. And finally, our feelings of shame trap us into thinking that we can never recover—that, in fact, we don't even deserve to.

If you don't handle the hurt properly, their sin becomes a catalyst for your own.

Having suffered so much, the capacity for suffering had to some extent left him.

Instead of her soul swaying with new life, it seemed to droop, to bleed, as if it were wounded.

Paul walked with something screwed up tight inside him. He would have suffered much physical pain rather than this unreasonable suffering at being exposed to strangers

But he had been so much hurt that something inside him had perished, some of his feelings had gone. There was a blank of insentience.

Her still face, with the mouth closed tight from suffering and disillusion and self-denial, and her nose the smallest bit on one side, and her blue eyes so young, quick, and warm, made his heart contract with love.

Some are wrestling with painful words spoken over them by someone they love or walking around in chains of their own making.

You and I... we never really finished our conversation, but I can tell you this... living with a broken heart is living half dead, and that doesn't mean you're half alive. It means you're half dead. And... that's no way to live.

Something only God can do. He both broke and filled my heart at the same time. I still don't understand that.

I quit screaming at God a long time ago, 'cause I reckon he knows a thing or two about hurt.