Quotes about Pain
How did we all get so screwed up? Putting aside our damaged parents, poverty, abuse, addiction, disease, and other unpleasantries, life just damages people. There is no way around this.
— Anne Lamott
God isn't there to take away our suffering or our pain but to fill it with his or her presence
— Anne Lamott
O Love that will not let me go I rest my weary soul in thee I give thee back the life I owe that in thine ocean depths its flow may richer, fuller be. O Joy that seekest me through pain I cannot close my heart to thee I trace the rainbow through the rain and feel the promise is not vain that morn shall tearless be.
— Sheila Walsh
Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive. —C. S. LEWIS, MERE CHRISTIANITY
— Sheila Walsh
Every scar has a life of its own and a space in my heart.
— Paulo Coelho
The search for happiness is more important than the need for pain.
— Paulo Coelho
As soon as a baby enters the world, the baby is immediately introduced to pain. It is somewhat symbolic that life begins with a cry.
— RC Sproul
The same fire" (which he decides to be material) " torments the damned in hell and the just in purgatory...The least pain in purgatory exceeds the greatest in this life.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
— John Eldredge
Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a musèd rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy!
— John Keats
Pain and blessings, deep wounds and healed scars, and, thank heaven, a God who could make sense of it all.
— Elizabeth Musser
But healing isn't the same as recovery, is it? Healing slides way down in your heart and settles there.
— Elizabeth Musser