Enduring Pain Quotes

Good pain is pain in the service of a purpose. Bad pain is pain endured because we are resisting a needed growth step.

What is to give light must endure burning.

A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable.

..the best is only bought at the cost of great pain...or so says the legend

The most feared thing should be death, but after a lot of rumination, I have settled to fear incessant pain. It is not a 'screaming hysterically' kind of fear but a silently lurking one.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.

Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.

I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it

I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.

There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

You believe you could not live with the pain. Such pain is not lived with. It is only endured. I am sorry.

The heat of the bread burned into my skin, but I clutched it tighter, clinging to life.

New grief, when it came, you could feel filling the air. It took up all the room there was. The place itself, the whole place, became a reminder of the absence of the hurt or the dead or the missing one. I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure.

Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer is a small matter: in that line, weak women and even slaves often attain masterliness. But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of it that is great, that belongs to greatness.

Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.

Do not consider painful what is good for you.

Pain didn't ever really stop, he thought; it just changed forms.

Heartache, Daphne eventually learned, never really went away; it just dulled. The sharp, stabbing pain that one felt with each breath eventually gave way to a blunter, lower ache—the kind that one could almost—but never quite—ignore.

Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.

Even in the most grieving of losses, or whatever sort of pain you're sitting in, we can bear it.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.