John Sterling Quotes

Pain is a beautiful thing. When you feel pain, you know you're alive.

Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.

There's beauty in pain, and everyone experiences it - and it's a lesson.

Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.

He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

Joy always came after pain.

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

What is to give light must endure burning.

I think that no human gets away unscathed in this old life. We've all experienced loss and grief and pain and tragedy.

Pain is mandatory for all of us. It's what teaches us. Suffering is what's optional. That's what happens when we try to skip over the pain.

Pain - that is what life is about, isn't it? Suffering with moments of reprieve.

Everybody has their pain.

Suffering does not change its face.

Pain is pain.

The fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength

Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself.

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.

To become a man was something, but to become a man of sorrows was far more; to bleed, and die, and suffer.

we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.