Do you ever feel like giving up? Like all the work you’re putting in is for nothing and it’s just too hard? You’re not alone. Check out this compilation of pain quotes to remind yourself that you’re not the only one feeling this way. These entrepreneurs have been there, done that, and came out on top. So can you.

The best pain quotes

1. In our neighborhood, girls are commonly killed In their mothers’ wombs and we don’t feel the paIn, we don’t have a right to kill our daughters. — Narendra Modi

2. Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be happy even if the present was painful. He would allow himself dreams. — Suzanne Collins

3. Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers–dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters. — Pablo Picasso

4. When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. A slave loses his pain. Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That’s why he’s not afraid of it. That’s why we’ll win. — Spartacus

5. When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain. — Miguel De Cervantes

6. Too much profit is being made at the expense of unsuspecting patients. — Melissa Cady, Paindemic: A Practical and Holistic Look at Chronic Pain, the Medical System, and the antiPAIN Lifestyle

7. To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both. — Mark Twain

8. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it. — Rabindranath Tagore

9. You couldnt erase everything that caused you pain with recollection.Every memory was valuable — even the bad ones

10. Live what you love, and love what you live. Anything less is a painful and frustrating waste of your precious time. — Ralph Marston

11. I’m not going to stop torturing myself till I figure out the cause of my pain. — Matt Groening

12. Morrie, ‘ Koppel said, ‘that was seventy years ago your mother died. The pain still goes on?’ ‘You bet, ‘ Morrie whispered. — Mitch Albom

13. If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it. — Salvador Dali

14. Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering. — Paulo Coelho

15. My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. — Thomas Paine

16. Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to mind. — Samuel Johnson, Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare

17. Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart — and perhaps it is due to the gardener’s innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive.

18. I’m still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am. — T–Pain

19. Examination of the world without is never as personally painful as examination of the world within. — M. Scott Peck

20. This was a different kind of a kiss, not one that leads to something, but a hard, painful one.It was a goodbye kiss. — Penelope Ward, Stepbrother Dearest

21. You have someone in your life whom you honor and revere so much that every hurt on them is inflicted on you as well. And the closer they are to you, the greater the pain. — Masashi Kishimoto

22. You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song. — Trent Reznor

23. Loving you is loosing my soul, I was in a lost battle, Death at my door, A dog in a backyard feels for my pain, Beer in a broken bottle wet paint and rain. — Table No. 21

24. The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others. — Shirley MacLaine

25. God is God and I am not. I can only see a part of the picture He’s painting. — Steven Curtis Chapman

26. So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar. — Matthew Henry

27. Dance your pain, sing your sorrows, because there is nothing else tomorrow. — Santosh Kalwar

28. Without the money your life is like a colorless painting. — Tanmaya Guru

29. One who has conquered every aspect of his pain except the deepest. — Mary Balogh, Simply Love

30. The pain of a disappointed wish necessarily produces less effect upon the mind if a man has not certainly promised himself success. — Seneca

31. If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. — Thomas Paine

32. A moment spent in Sorrow or a moment spent in Pain is a waste of a Great Treasure that you will never get again.–RVM — RVM

33. When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in behaviour may last several hours. — Peter Singer

34. Neither care too much nor too little about the feedback of others. — Miles Anthony Smith, Why Leadership Sucks™ Volume 2: The Pain, Pitfalls, and Challenges of Servant Leadership Fundamentals

35. We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

36. I choose my life to this free. I choose my life to be this way — Thomas Paine

37. Majority of women like to fantasize and men like to romanticize. I saw a painful mountain in her eyes. — Santosh Kalwar

38. He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. — Stephen Crane

39. I’ve lived too long with pain. I won’t know who I am without it. — Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

40. Everything in this life is only a glimpse of the real thing. Love, beauty, pleasure, even pain in its true essence is only in the next. — Yasmin Mogahed

41. Pain fuels artistry and creativity. Harness your suffering and become a master of your art. — Michelle C. Hillstrom

42. You can’t get around pain and opposition, but you can try to be joyful in the trial, and thank yourself for the trial, and thank God for the strength to get through it. — Mary J. Blige

43. A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement. — Paul D. Boyer

44. If life’s not beautiful without the pain, well I’d just rather never ever even see beauty again. — Modest Mouse

45. Asleep she was a painting of a fire. Awake she was the fire itself — Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear

46. Never underestimate the pain of a person, because in all honesty, everyone is struggling. Some people are just better at hiding it than others. — Will Smith

47. I try to help people see that God uses pain, that pain is one of the ways God shapes us into the kind of beings He wants us to be for eternity. — Max Lucado

48. Even painful memories are ties that bind. — Milan Kundera

49. Sometimes I feel we express more with dancing or acting or painting than with words. — Penelope Cruz

50. Music enriches people’s lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that. — Victoria Wood

Conclusion

Pain is a normal part of life, and it’s important to recognize that it can actually help us grow and become stronger. As these quotes remind us, pain can be an opportunity to learn and to appreciate the joys that life has to offer. We can use our pain to move forward and make our lives better. So no matter what kind of pain you’re struggling with, know that you’re not alone and that it can be used to help you create a life that’s more meaningful and fulfilling.