Quotes about Pain

Winning gives birth to hostility.
Losing, one lies down in pain.
The calmed lie down with ease,
having set winning & losing aside.

Dhammapada 15.201

Who except the gods can live without any pain?

Pain is a message asking for our help.

You can be sad for others but you don't have to take on their pain.

Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

The first time you're broken, you don't know you'll be healed again, better than before.

Most people tell you they want to get out of kindergarten, but don't believe them. Don't believe them! All they want you to do is to mend their broken toys. "Give me back my wife. Give me back my job. Give me back my money. Give me back my reputation, my success." This is what they want; they want their toys replaced. That's all. Even the best psychologist will tell you that, that people don't really want to be cured. What they want is relief; a cure is painful.

Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgment. On the emotional level, it is some form of negativity. The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment, and this in turn depends on how strongly you are identified with your mind.

Pain is inevitable as long as you are identified with your mind.

I am the perpretor of my suffering - but only all of it.

A person will remain the same until the pain of remaining the same is greater than the pain of change.

Healing is not what I ask for. For I understand now I will continue to
carry this sorrow. I just wonder if the music can be my mask, for the
sorrow can be painful. Who knows how much longer my construction will
continue. My heart can only take so much of the real world. Sometimes
stepping away from the real world even if temp or putting on a mask, can be an escape to an oasis while I become the man I am meant to be. I
understand in the end Music is my escape from the pain but its just a
mask until I shine and become Man and Overcome the sorrow that is the
real world.

Fear was given to man as a cautionary device to spare him pain; it is not mean to be cultivated and abused.

Think of me tonite
For that which you savor
Did it give you something real,
or could you taste the pain of my death in its flavor?

My heart calls to me in my sleep
How can I turn to it
'Cause I'm all locked up in this
Dark place - and I do not know
I'm good as dead
My head aches - warped and tied up
I need to kill this pain

My head won't leave my head alone
And I don't believe it will
'Till I'm dead and gone
My head won't leave my head alone
And I don't believe it will
'Till I'm six feet under ground

And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with you
All through my life? - sharing my fire, my bed,
Sharing - oh, worst of all things! - the same head? -
And, when I feed myself, feeding you, too?

May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths, and superficial relationships, so that you may live deep within your heart. May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people, so that you may work for justice, freedom, and peace. May God bless you with tears to shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation, and war, so that you may reach out your hand to comfort them and to turn their pain into joy. And may God bless you with enough foolishness to believe that you can make a difference in this world, so that you can do what others claim cannot be done.

The hurt that we embrace becomes joy.

You left me boundaries of pain
Capacious as the sea,
Between eternity and time,
Your consciousness and me.

Pain destroys the illusions of false, that is, elitist pleasures. It burns from the inside out. It, therefore, sensitizes us to what is truly beautiful in life.

A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it.

If God were to exist for the entire humanity, he would be profoundly vile, as he allows the existence of unfathomable sin, stupidity, madness, and misery for no reason than his own despicable enjoyment. God exists though, not for all humanity, but for a one chosen man - a philosopher - who is bound to answer the greatest philosophical question, the question about the nature of the questioner's existence, which progressively quenches the divine vanity.

Pleasure of love lasts a moment, pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Like falling stars from the universe we are hurled
Down through the long loneliness of the world
Until we behold the pain, become the pearl

Sometimes we guard people from the truth to protect them from being hurt, but by doing that we only hurt them more in the long run.