85 Chronic Pain Quotes to Help Stay Positive

Wether your pain is temporary or chronic, use these quotes about pain (both in your body and mind) to help cope with the discomfort, heal, and find peace in your situation.

Pain Quotes

“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

“Just like there’s always time for pain, there’s always time for healing.” – Jennifer Brown

“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” – Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

“Don’t get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.” – Rumi

“Scars are just a treasure map for pain you’ve buried too deep to remember.” – Jodi Picoult

“I’ve lived too long with pain. I won’t know who I am without it.” – Orson Scott Card

“If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it, to love it.” – Sarah J. Maas

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

“There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.” – Erma Bombeck

“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” – Lance Armstrong Sally Jenkins

“Pain is the only evil I know about. It’s the only one I can fight.” – Walter M. Miller

“It is when we hurt that we learn.” – Steve Maraboli

“Truly, a life in constant pain is the life of the damned.” – Christopher Pike

“Sweet is pleasure after pain.” – John Dryden

“Sometimes you weren’t supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.” – Sarah Addison Allen

“I’m willing to accept any kind of pain to win a race.” – Rick Wohlhutter

“Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.” – Neil Gaiman

“We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.” – Charles Bukowski

“Pain is only temporary. Quitting is forever!” – Lance Armstrong

“With time the pain eases, the body recovers and the brain figures out new ways to go on.” – Federico Chini

“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” – Maya Angelou

“It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.” – Veronica Roth

“Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take can sometimes be the most painful.” – José N. Harris

“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” – José N. Harris

“Even pain pricks to livelier living.” – Amy Lowell

“People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel?” – Jim Morrison

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

“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

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” – Khalil Gibran

“I can’t stress this enough, but pain is part of the process. It’s important to feel it.” – Mark Manson

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

“The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.” – Aristotle

“Even pain has its joy.” – Russian Proverb

“The best way of handling pain was to study it objectively.” – Arthur C. Clarke

“When you fall, feel the pain. And then stand up. You were born for victory. And failure has no place in your world.” – Robin Sharma

“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” – Lois Lowry

“You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.” – Bob Marley

“…when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.” – Jane Austen

“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

“Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.” – George R.R. Martin

“The pain and boredom we experience in the initial stage of learning a skill toughens our minds.” – Robert Greene

“Of pain, you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.” – George Orwell

“One thing you can’t hide – is when you’re crippled inside.” – John Lennon

“When pain brings you down, don’t be silly, don’t close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.” – Alanis Morissett

“Pain and pleasure like light and darkness, succeed each other.” – Lawrence Stone

“Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.” – David Richo

“The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.” – Publilius Syrus

“Recycle your pain, allow your pain to reach you to greatness.” – Eric Thomas

“Pain is immune to empathy…like love.” – Barbara Lazear Ascher

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” – Bob Marley

“You gave me pain wrapped in love.” – Krishna Chhetri

“If pain doesn’t lead to humility, you have wasted your suffering.” – Katerina Stoykova Klemer

“Sometimes pain can drive a man harder than pleasure.” – Don Ingall

“Bad things happen to our life so as to favor the good things that will happen next.” – Maria Karvouni

“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.” – Chuck Palahniuk

“Pain can be controlled, you just disconnect it.” – James Cameron

“The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is.” – Eckhart Tolle

“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.” – Zora Neale Hurston

“From hurt comes pain, from pain comes change. If it hurts enough, change will happen.” – Tripp Evans

“The cure for pain is in the pain.” – Rumi

“We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.” – Alan Watts

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

“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

“Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.” – Buddhist proverb

“Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.” – Joseph Campbell

“The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel.” – Erica Jong

“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.” – Ernest Hemingway

“These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.” – Rumi

“Behind every beautiful thing, there’s been some kind of pain.” – Bob Dylan

“Learn the lesson of your pain.” – Gary Null

“Pain is weakness leaving the body.” – Chesty Puller

“If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.” – C.S. Lewis

“One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.” – Sophocles

“Humor was a good way to hide the pain.” – Rick Riordan

“Pain is temporary. It may last for a minute, or an hour or a day, or even a year. But eventually, it will subside. And something else take its place.” – Eric Thomas

“Life is pain, so live it up while you can.” – Ernest Hemingway

“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.” – Laurell K. Hamilton

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.” – John Green

“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the deal.” – C.S. Lewis

“Pain is a great motivator.” – Naval Ravikant

“Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.” – Robert Gary Lee

“If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.” – Paulo Coelho