C. S. Lewis Quotes

I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.

I can bear pain myself, he said softly, but I couldna bear yours. That would take more strength than I have.

One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place.

There's not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it.

When I'm in pain and grief and despair, my throat is clenched and my heart hurts.

You believe you could not live with the pain. Such pain is not lived with. It is only endured. I am sorry.

The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.

Heartbreak makes us stronger; it's an opportunity for spiritual growth. How can you understand someone else's pain if you have not yourself suffered?

You have to be an ally in a difficult time and not turn on yourself with self-shaming thoughts, which makes facing pain intolerable.

The imagination is always the best torturer.

Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time.

All pain is the same. Only the details are different.

He is also a victim of some injustice; he usually tries to be alone, in order to show his pain to others.

...the pain that comes from loving someone who's in trouble can be profound.

A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.

Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.

It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.

I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.

He who loves his neighbor burns his heart, and the heart, like green wood, groans when it burns, and distills itself in tears. There is no point in taking opium; it is better to put salt and vinegar in the soul's wound, for if you fall asleep and no longer feel the pain, then you no longer exist. And the point is to exist.

To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.

Now that another is suffering pain at thy hand, trust not that thy heart shall be exempt from affliction.

In the case of most pains let this remark of Epicurus aid thee, that the pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting, if thou bear in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination.

It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.

Everyone is in pain.No matter where they come from or what you think of them. Sorrow spares no one