The feeling of deep pain is all too real. While physical pain is seen from the outside by others, emotional pain goes unseen. But which is worse, physical or mental pain?
Sometimes we can’t tell the difference. The emotional pain suffered goes unseen by others and it still takes it toll on the body also causing physical pain. Eventually the two are so intertwined that it’s hard to tell the difference between the two. All you feel is simply deep pain that’s indescribable.
To help you describe and identify the pain you are experiencing, here are 60 quotes about deep pain.
Quotes About Deep Pain
Sit with the pain until it passes, and you will be calmer for the next one
Naval Ravikant
Great things never came from comfort zones
Neil Strauss
One thing you can’t hide – is when you’re crippled inside
John Lennon
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
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you
Maya Angelou
That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt
John Green
Our strength grows out of our weaknesses
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain
Robert Gary Lee
Don’t let pain define you, let it refine you
Tim Fargo
Stay focused on your purpose, not your pain
Ranal Currie
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Learn to wait and embrace your pain. Fleeing it will simply bring more confusion. Facing it will bring clarity
Maxime Lagace
Often it’s the deepest pain which empowers you to grow into your highest self
Unknown
After the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here
Walt Disney
Don’t get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure
Rumi
There is a saying in Tibetan, ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength’. No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster
Dalai Lama
Behind every beautiful thing, there’s been some kind of pain
Bob Dylan
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
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey
Kenji Miyazawa
You must go through that short-term pain to reach long-term gains. A meaningful life is about growth, not comfort
Maxime Lagace
Pain nourishes courage. You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you
Mary Tyler Moore
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The pain will leave once it has finished teaching you
Bruce Lee
Failure gave me strength. Pain was my motivation
Michael Jordan
Turn your wounds into wisdom
Oprah Winfrey
If you can sit with your pain, listen to your pain and respect your pain—in time you will move through your pain
Bryant McGill
Pain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding
Khalil Gibran
I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning
Haruki Murakami
Our most beautiful dreams are born from our most unpleasant nightmares
Matshona Dhiiwayo
You gave me pain wrapped in love
Krishna Chhetri
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain
Joseph Campbell
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I guess that’s what pain can do if you allow it: crack you open, let light in, and show you what’s on the inside
Michelle Cuevas
The pain started years ago, but I’d lived with it for so long at that point that I’d accepted it as an inevitable part of me
Diwakar Sharma
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it
J.K. Rowling
There is no coming to consciousness without pain
Carl Jung
Pain is like a love affair. When it’s over it’s over
Elyse Sommer
The pain is never without purpose, and it never lasts forever. This is a chapter in your life—this is not the whole book!
Patsy Burnette
The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body
Publilius Syrus
Pain can make us lash out in unexpected ways. Pain can make us hurt those we care about. Pain can build walls between two human souls
Faheemah Isaacs
The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is
Eckhart Tolle
God gave us pain to remind us we are alive, so we will learn to value the joys and beauty of the world
Tom Corr
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it
Zora Neale Hurston
It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don’t agree. The wounds remain. Time—the mind, protecting its sanity—covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone
Rose Kennedy
The more you victimize yourself and romanticize your pain, the more you will stay stuck in cycles of misery and resentment
Rabin Paudel
We are all damaged. We have all been hurt. We have all had to learn painful lessons. We are all recovering from some mistake, loss, betrayal, abuse, injustice or misfortune
Bryant McGill
There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds
Laurell K. Hamilton
Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word
George R. R. Martin
Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go
Roy T. Bennett
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
James Baldwin
You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it
J.K. Rowling
Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us
David Richo
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I’ve lived too long with pain. I won’t know who I am without it
Orson Scott Card
For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob
Virginia Woolf
You were unsure which pain is worse — the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will
Simon Van Booy
And so I wait. I wait for time to heal the pain and raise me to me feet once again – so that I can start a new path, my own path, the one that will make me whole again
Jack Canfield
I just let the pain take over, allowing it to numb the pain of being left behind
Jessica Sorensen
Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you’re alive
Robert Jordan
I’ve perfected the art of the fake smile. It’s not so difficult when you are completely numb
Bethany Griffin
Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the pain and the suck, you don’t ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for
Jim Butcher
Your heart literally hurts when it’s breaking. You can feel it, every beat another ache, and nothing you can do will stop it, either from beating or breaking
Alison McGhee
Some scars don’t hurt. Some scars are numb. Some scars rid you of the capacity to feel anything ever again
Joyce Rachelle
Works Cited
100 Pain Quotes To Help You Stay Calm And Hopeful (wisdomquotes.com)
115 Pain Quotes Honoring Your Strength and Power (2022) (everydaypower.com)
Pain Quotes (7634 quotes) (goodreads.com)