Pain And Sorrow Quotes

• Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.

  Joseph Butler

  Pain, Compassion, Mind

  Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax (1828). “The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Butler: To which is Prefixed, an Account of the Character and Writings of the Author”

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• 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

  Pain, Heart, Optimistic

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• You'll never get to a person's soul until you understand their hurts.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Hurt, Pain, Understanding

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• There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Pain, Loneliness, Heart

  FaceBook post by Hubert Selby, Jr. from Jan 23, 2013

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• Jesus doesn't give an explanation for the pain and sorrow of the world. He comes where the pain is most acute and takes it upon himself. Jesus doesn't explain why there is suffering, illness, and death in the world. He brings healing and hope. He doesn't allow the problem of evil to be the subject of a seminar. He allows evil to do its worst to him. He exhausts it, drains its power, and emerges with new life.

  N. T. Wright

  Death, Christian, Hope

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• In deep pain, people don't need logic, advice, encouragement, or even Scripture. They just need you to show up and shut up.

  Rick Warren

  Encouragement, Pain, People

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from May 22, 2013

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• O what a blessed day that will be when I shall . . . stand on the shore and look back on the raging seas I have safely passed; when I shall review my pains and sorrows, my fears and tears, and possess the glory which was the end of all!

  Richard Baxter

  Pain, Blessed, Sea

  Richard Baxter (1822). “The Saint's Everlasting Rest: Or, A Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in Their Enjoyment of God in Heaven”, p.306

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• The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist.

  Kevin Carter

  Life, Suicide, Pain

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• We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Happiness, Success

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• Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Murakami Haruki, (2012). “L'arte di correre”, p.8, Giulio Einaudi Editore

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• Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

  Joseph Addison

  Honesty, Pain, Integrity

  Joseph Addison (1837). “The Spectator, no. 1-314”, p.251

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• That's the thing I want to make clear about depression: It's got nothing at all to do with life. In the course of life, there is sadness and pain and sorrow, all of which, in their right time and season, are normal-unpleasant, but normal. Depression is an altogether different zone because it involves a complete absence: absence of affect, absence of feeling, absence of response, absence of interest. The pain you feel in the course of a major clinical depression is an attempt on nature's part (nature, after all, abhors a vacuum) to fill up the empty space.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Pain, Sadness, Space

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think life is really hard sometimes. It's not easy to wake up every day and go through what you go through. But the beautiful moments that you share with people that you love, or even experience alone, are worth all of the pain and sorrow. Those moments should be cherished, and I think that's what music is all about-to remind people of the beautiful moments that are in everybody's life

  Charlie Haden

  Love, Beautiful, Pain

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• Unfortunately, it is much easier to shut one's eyes to good than to evil. Pain and sorrow knock at our doors more loudly than pleasure and happiness; and the prints of their heavy footsteps are less easily effaced.

  Thomas Huxley

  Pain, Eye, Doors

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.323, University of Georgia Press

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• Pain is pain and sorrow is sorrow. It hurts. It limits. It impoverishes. It isolates. It restrains. It works devastation deep within the personality. It circumscribes in a thousand different ways. There is nothing good about it. But the gifts God can give with it are the richest the human spirit can know.

  Margaret Clarkson

  Hurt, Pain, Giving

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• Think of everything you've ever experienced that was painful; that's the meaning of Good Friday. Think of all the ways that love ultimately healed your heart; that's the meaning of Easter.

  Marianne Williamson

  Friday, Easter, Heart

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 06, 2012

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• All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement.

  Billy Graham

  Life, Sympathy, Encouraging

  Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.119, Thomas Nelson Inc

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  If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Inspiring, Sympathy

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “Outre Mer. Driftwood”

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• There is no sin or transgression, pain or sorrow, which is outside of the healing power of His Atonement.

  C. Scott Grow

  God, Christian, Spiritual

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• Christ is building His kingdom with earth's broken things. Men want only the strong, the successful, the victorious, the unbroken, in building their kingdoms; but God is the God of the unsuccessful, of those who have failed. Heaven is filling with earth's broken lives, and there is no bruised reed that Christ cannot take and restore to glorious blessedness and beauty. He can take the life crushed by pain or sorrow and make it into a harp whose music shall be all praise. He can lift earth's saddest failure up to heaven's glory.

  J.R. Miller

  Inspirational, Strength, God

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• Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Religious, Pain

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.46, Penguin

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• How can you and I really expect to glide naively through life, as if to say, 'Lord, give me experience, but not grief, not sorrow, not pain, not opposition, not betrayal, and certainly not to be forsaken. Keep from me, Lord, all those experiences which made Thee what Thou art! Then, let me come and dwell with Thee and fully share Thy joy!'

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Life, Art, Pain

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• Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.

  Rumi

  Heart, Sorrow, Yellow Leaves

  "Overcoming Self-Doubt — What I Have Been Learning From Rumi" by Faisal Hoque, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2015.

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  Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Inspirational, Sad, Pain

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.262, Google Publishing

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• The way to live in the present is to remember that "This too shall pass." When you experience joy, remembering that "This too shall pass" helps you savor the here and now. When you experience pain and sorrow, remembering that "This too shall pass" reminds you that grief, like joy, is only temporary.

  Joey Green

  Life, Pain, Grief

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