Quotes About Pain

“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”
― Lance Armstrong

“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton

“Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.”
― Bob Dylan

“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”
― José N. Harris

“The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.”
― Jodi Picoult

“I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.”
― Jodi Picoult

“There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.”
― Erma Bombeck

“Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?”
― Jacqueline Carey

“The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”
― George R.R. Martin

“The worst wounds, the deadliest of them, aren't the ones people see on the outside. They're the ones that make us bleed internally.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces.”
― Richard Kadrey

“I wondered how long it could last. Maybe someday, years from now. If the pain would decrease to the point where I could bear it. I would be able to look back on those few short months that would always be the best of my life.”
― Stephenie Meyer

“Some pains are physical, and some pains are mental.”
― Ogden Nash

“My heart hurts that means I’m alive.”
― Kazuya Minekura

“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The cure for pain is in the pain.”
― Rumi

“Humor was a good way to hide the pain.”
― Rick Riordan

“Your heart literally hurts when it's breaking. You can feel it, every beat another ache, and nothing you can do will stop it, either from beating or breaking.”
― Alison McGhee

“There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.”
― Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

“What the eyes don't see, the heart can't feel.”
― Dia Reeves

“Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.”
― Jim Butcher