Chronic pain is defined as pain that lasts at least 12 weeks. It can have real effects on your day-to-day life because it not only harms physically, but also mentally and emotionally. It destroys your inspiration, resolve, and strength. Most famous chronic pain quotes will offer up their best advice and help you cope to lift you up when you’re in pain.
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Best Chronic Pain Quotes
Living in the past is like choosing to cling to a chronic illness. Asa Don Brown
Positive self-talk is to emotional pain as pain pill is to physical pain. Edmond Mbiaka
Behind every chronic illness is just a person trying to find their way in the world. We want to find love and be loved and be happy just like you. We want to be successful and do something that matters. We’re just dealing with unwanted limitations in our hero’s journey. Glenn Schweitzer
You wake up every morning to fight the same demons that left you so tired the night before, and that, my love, is bravery. Unknown
Turn your wounds into wisdom. Oprah Winfrey
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. Buddhist Proverb
Pain nourishes courage. You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you. Mary Tyler Moore
Live to inspire and one day people will say, because of you, I didn’t give up Unknown
Language is always inadequate in the face of pain. John Green
I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being. Hafiz
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain. Vivian Greene
The strongest people I’ve met have not been given an easier life. They’ve learned to create strength and happiness from dark places. Kristen Butler
We must let go of the life we had planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. Joseph Campbell
Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen
Joy is not the absence of suffering. It is the presence of God. R Schuller
God’s purpose in increasing our trials is to sensitize us to people we never would have been able to relate to otherwise. Joni Eareckson Tada
Don’t give up. Don’t lose hope. Don’t sell out. Christopher Reeve
There are two kinds of disabled persons: Those who dwell on what they have lost and those who concentrate on what they have left. Thomas S. Szasz
The biology of pain is never really straightforward, even when it appears to be. Lorimer Moseley
There are those who suffer and grow strong; there are those who suffer and grow weak. This mystery of pain is still for me the saddest of earth’s disabilities. Silas Weir Mitchell
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. Frank Herbert
Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change. Tony Robbins
Pain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’ Mary Anne Radmacher
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world. C.S. Lewis
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. Kenji Miyazawa
If you’re going through hell, keep going. Winston Churchill
Life is pain, so live it up while you can. Ernest Hemingway
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. Marcus Aurelius
It hurts because it matters. John Green
It’s better to feel pain than nothing at all. Unknown
Don’t let pain define you, let it refine you. Tim Fargo
Stay focused on your purpose, not your pain. Ranal Currie
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have life itself. Walter Anderson
No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.– Unknown
Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place. Kurt Vonnegut
Chronic pain or other challenges are invitations; gifts that challenge us to learn how to manage the mind. Cheryl Richardson
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself. Norman Cousins
Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain. Jim Morrison
Chronic pain can be very lonely. It can have a shame-based quality. Jennifer Grey
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
Don’t quit. You’re already in pain. You’re already hurt. Get a reward from it. Unknown
It’s not who’s the best it’s who can take the most pain. Steve Prefontaine
Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit. Unknown
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. Friedrich Nietzsche
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
I don’t want my pain and struggle to make me a victim. I want my battle to make me someone else’s hero.– Unknown
You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering. Ernest Hemingway
It is not what happens to us in life that defines us. It is what we do with it that defines us. Tom Seaman
Time is not a cure for chronic pain, but it can be crucial for improvement. It takes time to change, to recover, and to make progress. Unknown
Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.– Siri Hustvedt
Don’t fight your pain; you can’t win. The paradox of recovery is that you have to surrender to win. Accepting what you cannot change makes the difference. Unknown
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. George Edward Woodberry
No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, show up, and never give up. Unknown
That is all I want in life; this pain to seem purposeful. Elizabeth Wurtzel
The most powerful words you can say to someone with an invisible illness is… ‘I Believe You’ Unknown
Life is tough my darling, but so are you. Stephanie Bennett Henry
Being able to walk pain-free is a blessing. Being able to walk without showing the pain is a skill Kylie McPherson
I use to fight the pain, but recently this became clear to me: pain is not my enemy; it is my call to greatness. Henry Rollins
Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain. Gene Tierney
One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives. Polly Toynbee
The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply. Joseph Campbell
You don’t know pain until you’re staring at yourself in the mirror with tears streaming down your face and you’re begging yourself to just hold on and be strong. Anonymous
Chronic pain shatters productive lives. Chronic pain almost always is accompanied by depression, anxiety, frustration, fatigue, isolation, and lowered self-esteem. Jed Diamond
Behind every beautiful thing, there’s some kind of pain. Bob Dylan
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. Lance Armstrong
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. Kahlil Gibran
My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain. Charlie Chaplin
What a person did when they were in pain said a lot about them. Veronics Roth
It’s a complete physical, mental and emotional assault on your body. Jamie Wingo
Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause is healed. Suffering is pain that we hold on to. It comes from the mind’s mysterious instinct to believe that pain is good, or that it cannot be escaped, or that the person deserves it. Deepak Chopra
There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain. R.D. Laing
If your body is screaming in pain, whether the pain is muscular contractions, anxiety, depression, asthma or arthritis, a first step in releasing the pain may be making the connection between your body pain and the cause. Beliefs are physical. A thought held long enough and repeated enough becomes a belief. The belief then becomes biology. Marilyn Van Derbur
Pain will come with time, but time will heal the pain. Anthony Liccione
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 is when you’re slowly dying on the inside and you’re way too weak to speak about it so you keep silent and suffer alone. Anonymous
God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives. Felt weakness deepens dependence on Christ for strength each day. The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away. To live with your ‘thorn’ uncomplainingly, that is, sweet, patient, and free in heart to love and help others, even though every day you feel weak, is true sanctification. It is true healing for the spirit. It is a supreme victory of grace. J. I. Packer
The body cannot take chronic terror; it must defend itself by refusing to harbor the spirit that wants to soar through it and experience life to the fullest. Carmen Aguirre
That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt. John Green
You feel your strength in the experience of pain. Jim Morrison
Avoiding our pain is needlessly exhausting. Pain can not be killed. When we attempt to bury our pain, it rises up from the grave of our emotions, haunting us, until we acknowledge its presence. We can heal our pain when we allow it to move through us. Jaeda Dewalt
Generally speaking, chronic pain and other physical and mental disorders have been categorized as ‘silent disorders’ in the workplace simply because most employees are afraid of the consequences if employers find out. Wayne Hochwarter
