Life
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.— Rumi
Pain has a way of teaching what comfort cannot. These deep quotes about life and pain are not here to fix anything. They are here to keep you company. Read slowly. Let the right ones stay.
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More topics ›The wound is the place where the Light enters you.— Rumi
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.— Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls.— Khalil Gibran
The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken places.— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.— Aeschylus
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.— Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness.— Jose N. Harris
You can recognize survivors of abuse by their courage. The most exhausted ones are still putting one foot in front of the other.— Jeanne McElvaney
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.— Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
The thing about pain is that it demands to be felt.— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Healing comes in waves and maybe today the wave hits the rocks.— Ijeoma Umebinyuo
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.— Robert Frost
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.— Kenji Miyazawa
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.— Friedrich Nietzsche
The cure for pain is in the pain.— Rumi
What does not kill me makes me stronger.— Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
It is so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.— John Steinbeck
You will lose someone you can't live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss.— Anne Lamott
Sometimes you have to die a little inside in order to be reborn and rise again as a stronger, smarter version of yourself.— Anonymous
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching.— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Life is a long lesson in humility.— James M. Barrie
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.— Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark
Pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.— Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
Behind every chronic pain there is a beautiful soul fighting to be happy.— Unknown
Sometimes the hardest part isn't letting go, but rather learning to start over.— Nicole Sobon
Hard times will always reveal true friends.— Unknown
And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through.— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.— Chinese Proverb
The only way out is through.— Robert Frost, A Servant to Servants