Top 100 Pain Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”

— Aeschylus

52. “The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

53. “Waiting for the end to come, Wishing I had strength to stand, This is not what I had planned, It’s out of my control.”

— Linkin Park

54. “The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

55. “You’re going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do. You don’t get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you’re going to take. That’s it.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

56. “What hurts us is what heals us.”

— Paulo Coelho

57. “It’s easier to run Replacing this pain with something numb It’s so much easier to go Than face all this pain here all alone.”

— Linkin Park

58. “Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.”

— Mark Twain

59. “I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.”

— Franz Kafka

60. “No one knows my Struggle, they only see the Trouble. Not knowing it’s hard to carry on when, No one loves you.”

— Tupac Shakur

61. “I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God’s megaphone to rouse a deaf world. You see, we are like blocks of stone out of which the Sculptor carves the forms of men. The blows of his chisel, which hurt us so much are what make us perfect.”

— C. S. Lewis

62. “Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”

— C. S. Lewis

63. “A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.”

— Steve Prefontaine

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

— Rumi

65. “After the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here.”

— Walt Disney

66. “Remember anything you want that’s valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.”

— Tony Robbins

67. “We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”

— Charles Bukowski

68. “Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.”

— Frida Kahlo

69. “Pain makes you stronger. Fear makes you braver. Heartbreak makes you wiser.”

— Drake

70. “Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.”

— Tony Robbins

71. “Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

72. “He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.”

— Dr. Seuss

73. “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

74. “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

75. “Life is pain, so live it up while you can.”

— Ernest Hemingway

76. “When the pain overtakes you, reach inside. Gather the broken pieces, and hand them to God. Ask Him to remake your heart. Different, this time. Stronger. More beautiful. This is how we are made, and remade by the Maker.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

77. “Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.”

— Eckhart Tolle

78. “Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

79. “People fear death even more than pain. It’s strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.”

— Jim Morrison

80. “Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.”

— C.G. Jung

81. “Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.”

— Lance Armstrong

82. “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”

— Kenji Miyazawa

83. “There are no mistakes in life, only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only opportunities to grow, learn and advance along the road of self-mastery. From struggle comes strength. Even pain can be a wonderful teacher.”

— Robin S. Sharma

84. “There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

— C.G. Jung

85. “Face your fears, endure their pain, and they will be re-written in the form of pride and dreams.”

— Greg Plitt

86. “Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.”

— Mary Tyler Moore

87. “It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”

— Rose Kennedy

88. “Sacrifice today for tomorrows betterment, you are willing to pay those payments with pain, because pain is just a message when you are fixing something that’s insufficient in your life.”

— Greg Plitt

89. “Much of your pain is self-chosen.”

— Khalil Gibran

90. “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

91. “When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.”

— Khalil Gibran

92. “Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.”

— Walter Anderson

93. “Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?”

— Leo Buscaglia

94. “Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”

— Pablo Neruda

95. “Hearts united in pain and sorrow will not be separated by joy and happiness. Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure. Love that is washed by tears will remain eternally pure and faithful.”

— Khalil Gibran

96. “We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.”

— Alan Watts

97. “The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

98. “Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.”

— Rumi

99. “It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

100. “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.”

— Khalil Gibran