Top 52 Pain Quotes

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Pain is a part of life. We all experience it but not everyone deals with it the same way. To help you out, check out the top 52 pain quotes.

#52 – 50. Pain Quotes

52. All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

51. Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign. – William Cullen Bryant

50. The injuries we do and the injuries we suffer are seldom weighed on the same scales. – Aesop

#49 – 40. Pain Quotes

49. Pain is like a love affair. When it’s over it’s over. – Elyse Sommer

48. Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain? – Aeschylus

47. There is nothing more suitable for the purposes of the universe than pain; never a day when you suffer is a lost day. – Amado Nervo

46. That which is escaped now is pain to come. – Proverb

45. Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain. – Samuel Johnson

44. Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. – Buddhist proverb

43. The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset. – Thomas Jefferson

42. Pain is what the world inflicts upon us. Suffering is our emotional reaction when we fail to make the difficult conscious choice to choose Joy. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

41. When you can’t remember why you’re hurt, that’s when you’re healed. – Jane Fonda

40. Pain is the only evil I know about. It’s the only one I can fight. – Walter M. Miller

#39 – 30. Pain Quotes

39. Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment. – Will Rogers

38. The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain. – Henry Ward Beecher

37. If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret. – Jim Carrey

36. Pain is the universe unguarded. – Steve Aylett

35. Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life. – Angelina Jolie

34. He was wise to the ways of pain. He had to be, for he felt none. – James Tiptree

33. Pain is immune to empathy…like love. – Barbara Lazear Ascher

32. An hour of pain is as long as a day of pleasure. – English Proverb

31. We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons. – Jim Rohn

30. It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience. – Julius Caesar

#29 – 20. Pain Quotes

29. God gave us pain to remind us we are alive, so we will learn to value the joys and beauty of the world. – Tom Corr

28. The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings. – William Hazlitt

27. The pain of the little finger is felt by the whole body. – Filipino Proverb

26. After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs. – Emily Dickinson

25. Even pain has its joy. – Russian Proverb

24. Sometimes pain can drive a man harder than pleasure. – Don Ingalls

23. Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. – Khalil Gibran

22. I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more. – C. S. Lewis

21. Pain is the substance of life and the root of personality, because only suffering is a person. – Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo

20. Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself. – Havelock Ellis

#19 – 10. Pain Quotes

19. To banish cares, scare away sorrow and soothe pain is the business of the poet and singer. – Bodenstedt

18. The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

17. Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. – Kahlil Gibran

16. Men are more sensitive to pain than to pleasures. – Tito Livio

15. There are no gains without pains. – Benjamin Franklin

14. The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

13. There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience. – Marquis De Sade

12. Never a lip is curved with pain That can’t be kissed into smiles again. – Bret Harte

11. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be nor more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain. Revelation – Bible

10. Who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain larks you, but too deep to see. – Margaret Atwood

#9 – 1. Pain Quotes

9. Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression. – Samuel Johnson

8. Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are. – John Dryden

7. People in pain are like the wandering minstrels of the Renaissance. Any occupied space becomes their court. If the story’s told often enough, perhaps the demons will become manifest. Made visible and mastered though words. – Barbara Lazear Ascher

6. There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is. – Bill Bradley

5. The best way of handling pain was to study it objectively. – Arthur C. Clarke

4. Pain and pleasure like light and darkness, succeed each other. – Lawrence Stone

3. Pain can be controlled, you just disconnect it. – James Cameron

2. He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. – Samuel Johnson

1. Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. – Lance Armstrong

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