This inspirational collection of pain quotes will remind you just how strong and powerful you are despite your trials and tribulations.

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What are the benefits of reading pain quotes?

In life, pain is inevitable.

Whether physical or mental, we all deal with pain daily.

Pain and suffering are part of human life.

These pain quotes will help you:

• Look at the pain in your life with a new lens
• Learn the importance of confronting and embracing your feelings
• Remember what is important in life and to cherish the beautiful moments

As much as people try to avoid pain, there can be no gain without pain.

When we overcome painful situations, we fully realize how precious life is.

That is why you should actually move toward your pain and not away from it.

Can you imagine a world without pain?

If there were no pain in the world, we would probably be reckless, and nothing would be of value to us.

However, thanks to pain, we learn to appreciate life itself and everything around us.

Painful experiences like breakups and losing a loved one or job make us more powerful and strong because we learn to survive during these hard times.

It’s when we put our survival instincts into practice that we can truly be strong.

In that respect, below you’ll find our collection of inspirational, wise, and uplifting pain quotes, pain sayings, and pain proverbs collected over the years from various sources.

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Pain Quotes Honoring Your Strength and Power

1. No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” – Hal Borland

2. ”No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.” – William Penn

3. ”Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.” – John Sterling

4. ”Pain nourishes courage. You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.” – Mary Tyler Moore

5. ”Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey

6. ”Failure gave me strength. Pain was my motivation.” – Michael Jordan

7. ”You never know how strong you are… until being strong is the only choice you have.”― Cayla Mills

8. ”It’s not whether you get knocked down. It’s whether you get up again.” – Vince Lombardi

9. ”Pain pays the income of each precious thing.” – William Shakespeare

10. “Pain and pleasure like light and darkness, succeed each other.” – Lawrence Stone

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Pain quotes to remind you how strong and powerful you are

11. ”Pain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger

12. ”Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing.” – Fight Club

13. “Pain is weakness leaving the body.” — Chesty Puller

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

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

16. ”There is no coming to consciousness without pain.” – Carl Jung

17. “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” — Khalil Gibran

18. “The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.” — Aristotle

19. ”Our strength grows out of our weaknesses.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

20. ”I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.” – Haruki Murakami

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Pain quotes to give you courage

21. ”Our most beautiful dreams are born from our most unpleasant nightmares.” ― Matshona Dhliwayo

22. “Bad things happen to our life so as to favor the good things that will happen next.”― Maria Karvouni

23. ”Suffering is an extraordinary teacher.” – Ryan Hall

24. ”The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.” – George Gordon Noel Byron

25. “To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!” — Charlie Chaplin

26. “You gave me pain wrapped in love.”― Krishna Chhetri

27. “Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.” — Joseph Campbell

28. “Pain is immune to empathy…like love.” – Barbara Lazear Ascher

29. ”Pain is a part of growing up. It’s how we learn.” – Dan Brown

30. “Don’t get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.” – Rumi

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Pain quotes to make you feel stronger

31. ”All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me…. You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.” —Walt Disney

32. ”Make up your mind that no matter what comes your way, no matter how difficult, no matter how unfair, you will do more than simply survive. You will thrive in spite of it.” —Joel Osteen

33. “I guess that’s what pain can do if you allow it: crack you open, let light in, and show you what’s on the inside.”― Michelle Cuevas

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

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

36. ”The pain started years ago, but I’d lived with it for so long at that point that I’d accepted it as an inevitable part of me.” – Diwakar Sharma

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

38. ”Anybody can laugh in joy, but the bold ones also smile in pain…knowing that pain is just like a zooming train, that will soon pass by.” – RVM

39. ”If you can sit with your pain, listen to your pain and respect your pain—in time you will move through your pain.” – Bryant McGill

40. ”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

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Quotes about pain to inspire and teach

41. ”You may have had unfair things happen to you, but the depth of your pain is an indication of the height of your future.” – Joel Osteen

42. ”Smile, though your heart is aching. Smile, even though it’s breaking. When there are clouds in the sky, you’ll get by if you smile through your pain and sorrow. Smile and maybe tomorrow, you’ll see the sun come shining through for you.” – Charlie Chaplin (see more Charlie Chaplin quotes)

43. ”Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.” – Sarah Dessen

44. “We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.” — Jim Rohn

45. ”No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.” – Sheryl Swoopes

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

47. ”Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain, because life’s greatest lessons are learned through pain.” – Nagato

48. ”This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and… if I think of human beings I’ve known and of my own life, such as it is, I can’t recall any case of pain which didn’t, on the whole, enrich life.” – Malcolm Muggeridge

49. ”Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly … and if left unresolved for very long, you can almost forget that you were ever created to fly in the first place.” – WM. Paul Young

50. ”I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person.” – Rita Mero

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Pain quotes to elevate your perspective

51. “One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.” — Sophocles

52. “Pain is like a love affair. When it’s over it’s over.” – Elyse Sommer
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53. “Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.” – Ovid

54. “Sometimes pain can drive a man harder than pleasure.” – Don Ingall

55. “The pain is never without purpose, and it never lasts forever. This is a chapter in your life—this is not the whole book!”― Patsy Burnette

56. “Pain can be controlled, you just disconnect it.” – James Cameron

57. “Behind every beautiful thing, there’s been some kind of pain.” – Bob Dylan

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58. “I’m willing to accept any kind of pain to win a race.” – Rick Wohlhutter

59. “Pain is a great motivator.” – Naval Ravikant

60. “The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.” – Publilius Syrus

Insightful pain quotes

61. “It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.” – Marquis de Sade

62. “The pain of the little finger is felt by the whole body.” – Filipino Proverb

63. “Every pain is a gift. Every pain is an opportunity.” – Maxime Lagacé

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

65. “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” – Kenji Miyazawa

66. “Top results are achieved only through pain. But eventually you like this pain.” – Juha Vaatainen

67. “Life is pain, so live it up while you can.” – Ernest Hemingway

68. “Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.” – Robert Gary Lee

69. ”The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day.” – Charles Dickens

70. “Even pain has its joy.” – Russian Proverb

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Profound pain quotes

71. “We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.” – Alan Watts

72. “The pain and boredom we experience in the initial stage of learning a skill toughens our minds.” – Robert Greene

73. “Pain introduces you to your highest self.” – Paul Domenick

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

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75. “Pain can make us lash out in unexpected ways.
Pain can make us hurt those we care about.
Pain can build walls between two human souls.”― Faheemah Isaacs

76. “Of pain, you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.” – George Orwell

77. “The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is.” – Eckhart Tolle

78. “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

79. “I can’t stress this enough, but pain is part of the process. It’s important to feel it.” – Mark Manson

80. “Pain is temporary. It may last for a minute, or an hour or a day, or even a year. But eventually, it will subside. And something else take its place.” – Eric Thomas

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Other pain quotes and sayings

81. “Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.” – Neil Gaiman

82. “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” – Lance Armstrong Sally Jenkins

83. “You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.” – J.K. Rowling

84. “We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.” – Charles Bukowski

85. “The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” – Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
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86. “The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the deal.” – C.S. Lewis

87. “Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take can sometimes be the most painful.” – José N. Harris

88. “If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.” – C.S. Lewis

89. “If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.” – Zora Neale Hurston

90. “When pain brings you down, don’t be silly, don’t close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.” – Alanis Morissett

91. “It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don’t agree. The wounds remain. Time—the mind, protecting its sanity—covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.” — Rose Kennedy

92. “The more you victimize yourself and romanticize your pain, the more you will stay stuck in cycles of misery and resentment.” ― Rabin Paudel

93. “You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.” — Bob Marley

94. “Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.” — Buddhist proverb

95. “Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.” — Helen Keller

Pain quotes for when you’re hurting

96. “It is when we hurt that we learn.”— Steve Maraboli

97. “Pain doesn’t hurt as much when you stop avoiding it.”― Mel Robbins

98. “With time the pain eases, the body recovers and the brain figures out new ways to go on.”— Federico Chini

99. “From hurt comes pain, from pain comes change. If it hurts enough, change will happen.”― Tripp Evans

100. “If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it, to love it.”― Sarah J. Maas

101. “People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel?”— Jim Morrison

102. “Sometimes you weren’t supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.”― Sarah Addison Allen

103. “We are all damaged. We have all been hurt. We have all had to learn painful lessons. We are all recovering from some mistake, loss, betrayal, abuse, injustice or misfortune.”— Bryant McGill

104. “Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime.”― Bette Davis

105. “It hurts when people walk into your life and make you happy and then walk out and leave you hurting.”― Adrian Rayshawn

Pain quotes to give you strength to carry on

106. “The marks humans leave are too often scars.” ― John Green

107. “It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.” ― Chuck Palahniuk

108. “If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.” ― Paulo Coelho

109. “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” ― Lois Lowry

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

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

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

113. “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” ― Bob Marley

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

115. “One thing you can’t hide – is when you’re crippled inside.” ― John Lennon

Pain quotes about life

116. “Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.” ― David Richo

117. “…when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.” ― Jane Austen

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

119. “I’ve lived too long with pain. I won’t know who I am without it.” ― Orson Scott Card

120. “Just like there’s always time for pain, there’s always time for healing.”― Jennifer Brown

121. “If pain doesn’t lead to humility, you have wasted your suffering.” ― Katerina Stoykova Klemer

122. “These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.”― Rumi

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

124. “It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.” ― Veronica Roth

125. “Scars are just a treasure map for pain you’ve buried too deep to remember.” ― Jodi Picoult

Short Pain Quotes To Enlighten You

126. “Recycle your pain, allow your pain to reach you to greatness.” ― Eric Thomas

127. “The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain.” ― Leonardo da Vinci

128. “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” ― Maya Angelou

129. “Sweet is pleasure after pain.” ― John Dryden

130. “Learn the lesson of your pain.” ― Gary Null

131. “Truly, a life in constant pain is the life of the damned.” ― Christopher Pike

132. “Pain is only temporary. Quitting is forever!” ― Lance Armstrong

133. “When you fall, feel the pain. And then stand up. You were born for victory. And failure has no place in your world.” ― Robin Sharma

134. “Even pain pricks to livelier living.” ― Amy Lowell

135. “The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel.” ― Erica Jong

Emotional pain quotes

136. “The best people all have some kind of scar.”― Kiera Cass

137. “I have been crying my whole life and you are still wishing for the rain.”― Wrushank Sorte

138. “Among my stillness was a pounding heart.”― Shannon A. Thompson

139. “Emotional suffering comes as a result of trying to control the uncontrollable”
― Matt Purcell

140. “Emotional pain cannot kill you, but running from it can. Allow. Embrace. Let yourself feel. Let yourself heal.”― Vironika Tugaleva

141. “As convincing as it may seem, physical pain often arises merely to distract us from emotional pain.”― Charles F. Glassman

142. “Take all the time you need to heal emotionally. Moving on doesn’t take a day, it takes lots of little steps to be able to break free of your broken self.”― Tere Arigo

143. “Emotional fetters may hurt but they lead us to profound lessons of life.”― Balroop Singh

144. “Don’t try to look for logic in things that involve feelings and emotions.”― Garima Soni

145. “Most of the pain we feel is nothing more than a story that needs telling.”― Ashly Lorenzana

Pain Quotes To Help You Overcome Trying Times

146. “The only way to learn compassion is through your heart; you have to back up and pass through your own pain.” — Matthew Fox

147. “You will know how to stop suffering as soon as suffering ceases to be valuable. If you are in pain, you are being led.” — Martha Beck

148. “Everything passes. Joy. Pain. The moment of triumph; the sigh of despair. Nothing lasts forever – not even this.” — Paul Stewart

149. “Everyone in life is gonna hurt you, you just have to figure out which people are worth the pain.” — Bob Marley

150. “Loss and hardships are unavoidable in life, however, “how” we deal with our pain is what will make us or break us.” — Melanie Willard

151. “No one escapes pain, fear, and suffering. Yet from pain can come wisdom, from fear can come courage, from suffering can come strength – if we have the virtue of resilience.” — Eric Greitens

152. “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.” — Matthew Fox

153. “Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity.” — Dean Koontz

154. “Alas, there isn’t a pain-free way to achieve your goals.” — Seth

155. “Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage.” — Robert Nathan

Which of these pain quotes was your favorite?

Life is full of ups and downs.

When you experience pain, you might think you are alone.

But the reality is everyone in the world goes through difficult times; regardless of his or her status.

As these pain quotes have shown, hurt is a part of growing up and it’s how we learn.

The next time you go through a painful experience, remember the above words and keep going.

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