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True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends. Adam Braun

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. Sophocles

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you. Ovid

Turn your wounds into wisdom. Oprah Winfrey

New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings. Lao Tzu

You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice. Bob Marley

Every pain is a gift. Every pain is an opportunity. Maxime Lagacé

he root of all suffering is attachment. Buddha Click to tweet

What hurts us is what heals us. Paulo Coelho

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. Neale Donald Walsch

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning. Haruki Murakami (1Q84)

Sit with the pain until it passes, and you will be calmer for the next one. Naval Ravikant

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

Let go of the past. Robert Greene

Adversity is the first path to truth. Lord Byron

Great things never came from comfort zones. Neil Strauss

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. Helen Keller

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure. Marquis de Sade

Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change. Tony Robbins

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

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. Kenji Miyazawa

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

Too many people believe that everything must be pleasurable in life, which makes them constantly search for distractions and short-circuits the learning process. Robert Greene

Most of the gains in life come from suffering in the short term, so you can get paid in the long term. Naval Ravikant

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. Kahlil Gibran

People go through so much pain trying to avoid pain. Neil Strauss

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

You must go through that short-term pain to reach long-term gains. A meaningful life is about growth, not comfort. Maxime Lagacé

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one. John Updike

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

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. Marcus Aurelius

best sad quotes about pain

Some people are going to leave, but that’s not the end of your story. That’s the end of their part in your story.

― Faraaz Kazi

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

― Oprah Winfrey

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

– Samuel Johnson

For we are born in other’s pain, and perish in our own.

– Francis Thompson

If you suffer, thank God! – it is a sure sign that you are alive.

– Elbert Hubbard

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

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

– Karl Marx

The marks humans leave are too often scars.

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

Life doesn’t hurt until you think about how much things have changed, who you’ve lost along the way, and how much of it was your fault.

– Jamila M. Allen

The longer the life the more the offense, the more the offense the more the pain, the more the pain the less the defense and the less the defense the less the gain.

– Sir Thomas Wyatt

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

– W. M. Lewis

The ones that you love the most are usually the ones that hurt you the most.

– Anonymous

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.

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

– Martin Farquhar Tupper

A golden heart stopped beating, working hands went to rest. He broke many hearts to prove to us, he only takes the best.

– Anonymous

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.”

– Anne Frank

Your heart says stay and battle the pain, but your mind says leave for all this isn’t needed, broken into pieces for that one and only. But follow your heart because the heart can only take so much.”

– Anonymous

Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

– Joseph Campbell

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

– Charlie Chaplin

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

― Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistral's Kiss

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

– Khalil Gibran

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

– Marquis de Sade