Jun 16 2006
Quotes on Pain
- “God whispers to us in our conscience, speaks to us in our joys, and shouts to us in our pain.” - CS Lewis
- “Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.” - Thomas Carlyle
- “Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.” - Charles Lamb
- “Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with His Presence.” - Paul Claudel
- “Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being. It forces him to face again the fundamental questions of his fate, of his attitude toward God and fellow man, of his individual and collective responsibility and of the sense of his pilgrimage on earth.” - Pope Pius XII
- “Everywhere a greater joy is preceded by a greater suffering.” - St. Augustine
- “I take comfort in the fact that somehow, in the mysterious resources of the human spirit, even pain can serve a higher end.” - Dr. Paul Brand
- “When you have no experience of pain, it is rather hard to experience joy.” - George Wald (Nobel Prize winner)
- “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, it lasts forever.” - Lance Armstrong
- “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy; And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields. And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.” - Kahlil Gibran
- “At the point of pain, when you feel that you can’t go on anymore; the point when you just want to quit, that is the point when you have to decide either you’ll give in to the pain, or you’ll persevere and overcome.” - Dr. Marc Fazio