We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.
The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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.
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.
It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
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.
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.
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.
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
Pain is weakness leaving the body.
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.
You can feel sore tomorrow or you can feel sorry tomorrow. You choose.
It hurts now, but one day it will be your warm up.
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.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.