Pain Quotes

Pain and afflictions cast a dark shadow over our lives. These clouds of despair, gloom and depression spare none. A few of us are brave and they come out of the phase with very little damage. But there are those among us who cannot take the grief and look for short cuts like suicide and various addictions. The pain quotes collected here are meant to bring some relief to your anguish; these quotations with their tales of woe will make your burden a tad lighter and easier to bear. Read the following quotations to find out more.

What I think I've been able to do well over the years is play with pain, play with problems, play in all sorts of conditions.
Problems
Roger Federer

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No problems are ever resolved by violence. It only aggravates the pain and the hurt on every side.
Problems Violence Hurt
Pranab Mukherjee

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Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
Life Love Happiness
Anthony Hopkins

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The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
Nothing Excitement
Charles Dickens

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One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Good Music
Bob Marley

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I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters.
Art
Marilyn Manson

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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
Words
Toni Morrison

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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
Tragedy Laughter Humor
Erma Bombeck

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Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.
Confidence Reality Self Confidence Self Esteem
Charles Kingsley

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If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
Jim Carrey

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To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
Charlie Chaplin

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There's this unbelievable bias and prejudice against quote-unquote good-looking people, that they can't be in pain or they can't have rough lives or be deep or interesting.
People
Rob Lowe

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It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
Men Patience
Julius Caesar

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My dad was a roofer when I was young. I believe he owned his own roofing company in Florida. And then he fell through a roof, broke his back. Permanently. I mean, he's not paralyzed or anything, but he's had to deal with pain for all of his life since then.
Life
Channing Tatum

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I never really liked Hollywood. I found it unreal - unreal and full of men and women whose lives were confused and full of pain.
Men Women
Grace Kelly

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Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Excitement Positivity
Joseph Campbell

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You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.
Baby Love
Frank Sinatra

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I would say probably my least favorite costume ever was in 'Van Helsing.' That was a huge pain because it had thigh-high boots with 30 buckles on them that had to be done up individually.
Kate Beckinsale

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Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
World Freedom
Kurt Cobain

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Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
Darkness Light
Laurence Sterne

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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.
Life Suffering Learning
Angelina Jolie

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My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.
Phyllis Diller

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The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.
People
Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Pain is temporary, film is forever.
Michael J. Fox

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Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
Marriage
Rita Rudner

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My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.
Life Focus
Jim Carrey

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There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.
Truth
George Michael

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When I retired, I stopped playing because of my body, so much pain and injuries.
Body
Ronaldo

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We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
Pleasure
Alan Watts

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Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
Adversity Sadness Spirituality Earth
Thomas More

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The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.
Love
Jennifer Aniston

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I think that storytelling, at its essence, allows us to feel like we all suffer the same insanity or a similar insanity of existence: that nobody escapes scot-free. We're all going to wind up - at the best-case scenario - 80, 85, 90, broken, in pain, and feeling like it was all a dream and not really understanding the point of any of it.
David Harbour

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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
Greatness Life Art
Lord Byron

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There's been a lot of speculation about every single girl I'm with and it actually does quite irritate me after a while, more so because it's a complete pain for the girls.
Girl
Prince William

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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
Death Benefit Suffering Usefulness
Salvador Dali

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You develop a third eye where you kind of know where they are in a room at all times but no matter how vigilant you are as a parent, at some point, you'll look around a room and can't find them and there's a searing pain that goes through your body.
Jodie Foster

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My father did a lot of disaster relief work, and he was always in places where there was a lot of pain.
Fathers Work
Elizabeth Holmes

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We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
Violence Fear
Jim Morrison

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I look at something like 'Short Term 12,' and that character has a lot of pain, and I wouldn't have known how to portray that if I hadn't experienced pain myself.
Character
Brie Larson

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I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.
Love Eyes
Dennis Rodman

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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
Age
Pearl S. Buck

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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
Hatred People
James Baldwin

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I think magic, whether I'm holding my breath or shuffling a deck of cards, is pretty simple. It's practice, it's training, and it's - It's practice, it's training and experimenting, while pushing through the pain to be the best that I can be.
Best Training
David Blaine

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I push myself hard. I don't like pain, exactly, but as a ballerina, I lived in constant pain. At ballet school in Stockholm, I remember we had a locker where if someone had been to the doctor and gotten painkillers, we divided them among us. In a sense, we were all addicted.
Doctor
Alicia Vikander

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I want to take all the pain that I feel and celebrate and turn it around.
Stevie Wonder

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If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.
Death Friendship Advice Belief
Thomas Paine

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I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.
Emo Philips

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Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!
Love
Joseph Addison

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My painting carries with it the message of pain.
Painting
Frida Kahlo

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The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
Suffering
Karl Marx

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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Pleasure Wisdom
Aristotle

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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Pleasure Indebtedness Revenge
Samuel Johnson

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Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
Sadness Anger
Yoko Ono

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

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I believe L. Ron Hubbard resolved the human mind, and in resolving it he has also resolved human pain - that's what I really think has happened here.
Mind
John Travolta

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Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
Laughter
Charlie Chaplin

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My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.
Sadness
Jennifer Aniston

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Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.
Kangana Ranaut

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When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain.
Health
Tom Petty

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I like to be in pain when I'm getting massaged. That way I know I'm getting my money's worth.
Money
Alison Brie

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You have to understand the Newark Riots - a lot of people understand that the pain was the initial explosion of anger and alienation, but after that, the response, sending the National Guard troops - a lot of violence was carried out and perpetrated by those who were allegedly coming here to protect residents.
Anger People
Cory Booker

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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
Pleasure Things Freedom
John Stuart Mill

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I'm definitely scared about newspapers. The problem is nobody wants to catch a falling knife, and nobody knows where things will stabilise. The value of newspapers has dropped significantly. I think we still have more pain to be felt.
Value
Jared Kushner

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Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
Life
Charles Lamb

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I don't think that my music without pain is good music - and I wouldn't know, because I haven't made any music without pain.
Good Music
Machine Gun Kelly

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Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
Reality
Sigmund Freud

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To act, you must know pain. You must know what it means to be in love, what it means to be rejected.
Love
Preity Zinta

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I know the injustice of outliving a child, the pain of a future stolen away, of mourning forever a voice you'll never hear.
Future
Jill Biden

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I have a high tolerance for pain - both physical and mental.
Tolerance
Dr. Dre

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After I quit dancing, for a while it felt strange not to be in pain. It was as if an old friend - not a good friend, but a presence, always tagging along - had left me.
Good
Alicia Vikander

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Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
Wickedness Knowledge Mystics & Mysticism
Simone Weil

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This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.
Tough
Shaquille O'Neal

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I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.
Time Laughter
Rashida Jones

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There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Carl Jung

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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Sadness Understanding
Khalil Gibran

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Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.
Zeal
Robert Browning

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A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look.
Thinking Women
Emma Thompson

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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
Fear Death
Epictetus

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Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
Greatness Art
Kanye West

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I'm willing to take any amount of pain to win.
Lewis Hamilton

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The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.
Mind
Margaret Mead

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I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.
People Childhood
Tyler Perry

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All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.
Pleasure Things
John Stuart Mill

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My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.
Anger Music Guitar
Kurt Cobain

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I love heels, I'm telling you. When I walk in flats, I get knee pain.
Love
Sofia Vergara

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No one can escape life's pain. That's life.
Life
Pierce Brosnan

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Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
Pleasure Right Happiness
John Stuart Mill

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I don't mind getting old except for the pain. I have two new knees, so going downstairs is not perfect. Nobody tells you about the pain.
Mind
Diana Rigg

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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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People have pain - they do regrettable things, they feel shame, and shame equals pain.
People Things
Jennifer Garner

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On the question of comfort women, when my thought goes to these people, who have been victimized by human trafficking and gone through immeasurable pain and suffering beyond description, my heart aches. And on this point, my thought has not changed at all from previous prime ministers.
People Women Heart
Shinzo Abe

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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Poetry Wonder Excitement
Khalil Gibran

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A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.
Death Life
Don DeLillo

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A lot of time, my inspiration comes from pain: growing pains, hunger pains, or money pains.
Money Time
Machine Gun Kelly

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I primarily have had my career in comedy, and that is something that I have never been too concerned about because I know there is really no room for vanity in comedy. Comedy comes from pain and it is a lot easier to empathize with somebody who is out of shape.
Chris Pratt

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It's really beautiful. But you know, fancy footwear is a pain!
Sarah Michelle Gellar

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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Wickedness Fear
Aristotle

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This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I'm discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it's a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.
Time
Eric Clapton

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Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all.
Excitement
Rosamund Pike

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As soon as 'General Admission' came out, there was a whole new pain that hit me that was rougher than I could imagine.
Machine Gun Kelly

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