Stress and Pain Quotes
Top 50 Stress and Pain
Quotes
No 1 (Best quote!)![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-aristotle.jpg)
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but
through greatness of mind.
- Aristotle (384-322 BC),
Greek philosopher, pictured right.
As the 1960's slogan says:
Take up your cross and relax.
No 2![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-marcus-aurelius.jpg)
To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
- Marcus Aurelius (121-180),
Roman emperor and philosopher, pictured right.
No 3![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-milton.jpg)
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
(from the 1667 poem Paradise Lost)
- John Milton (1608-74), pictured right, English writer.
No 4![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-epictetus.jpg)
It is difficulties that show what men are.
- Epictetus (c.55-c.135 AD), Greek philosopher, pictured right.
No 5
Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own,
(Matthew 6:34 in the Bible)
- Jesus (c4 BC-c30 AD), founder
of Christianity
![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-horace.jpg)
Horace (65–8 BC), the Roman poet, pictured right. agrees:
Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you
No 6![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-shakespeare.jpg)
Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart, and bids it break.
(Malcolm in Macbeth)
- William
Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright, pictured right
Shakespeare gives two tips on dealing with sorrow:
What's gone and what's past help should be past grief.
(Paulina in The Winter's Tale)
What’s done cannot be undone.
(Lady Macbeth in Macbeth)
No 7![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-lao.jpg)
If you want to be free, live simply.
- Lao Tzu (c604-c531 BC) ,
pictured right, Chinese philosopher.
No 8![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-ehrmann.jpg)
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
(from the 1927 poem Desiderata)
- Max Ehrmann (1872-1945), pictured right, American writer
No 9
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
(Elizabeth to Darcy)
- Jane Austen, pictured right,
Pride and Prejudice (1813),
![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-lawrence%20.jpg)
Don’t yearn for the past, as D.H. Lawrence, pictured right, describes in his 1918 poem
Piano:
Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past.
No 10![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-shakespeare.jpg)
Sweet are the uses of adversity,
(Duke Senior in As You Like It).
- William
Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright, pictured right.
Shakespeare’s thought that problems are necessary for a happy life is supported by
William Blake’s , pictured right, 1803 poem, Auguries of Innocence:
Joy and woe are woven fine,
A clothing for the soul divine.
No 11![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-stevenson.jpg)
There are no gains without pains.
- Adlai Stevenson (1900–65), American Democratic politician, pictured right.
![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotedante.jpg)
No 12
There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.
- Dante, (1265–1321), Italian poet, pictured right.
No 13![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-selye.jpg)
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
- Hans Selye (1907-82) , pictured
right, Austrian-born Canadian medical professor and stress expert.
Selye also says that positive stress (or pressure) is vital to a happy life:
Stress is the spice of life.
No 14![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-jung.jpg)
The foundation of all mental health is the avoidance of true suffering.
- Carl Jung (1875-1961), Swiss
psychiatrist, pictured right.
So Jung also says:
The sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
No 15![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-shakespeare.jpg)
One pain is lessened by another’s anguish.
(Benvolio in Romeo and
Juliet)
- William
Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright, pictured right
No 16![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-bacon.jpg)
Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
- Francis
Bacon (1561–1626), English politician and philosopher, pictured right.
No 17![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-kennedy-joe.jpg)
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
- Joseph P. Kennedy (1888–1969), American diplomat and father of John F. Kennedy, pictured right.
(also said by the American football player and coach Knute Rockne (1888-1931)
No 18![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-russell.jpg)
One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and
that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster.
- Bertrand
Russell (1872–1970), English philosopher, pictured right.
No 19![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-wilcox.jpg)
Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone; for the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, but
has trouble enough of its own.
(from the 1883 poem Solitude)
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919), pictured right, American poet.
No 20![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-shakespeare.jpg)
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on.
(the Duke of Venice in Othello)
- William
Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright, pictured right
No 21![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-eliot.jpg)
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
(Will Ladislaw in the 1874 novel Middlemarch)
- George Eliot (1819-80), pictured right, English writer.
No 22![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-chanel.jpg)
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
- Coco Chanel (1883-1971),
French fashion designer and businesswoman, pictured right.
No 23![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-garland-dorothy.jpg)
Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops. That’s where you’ll find me,
(from the song Over the Rainbow),
- Dorothy (Judy Garland, pictured right, in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz) .
No 24![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-keller.jpg)
When one door of happiness closes another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see
the one which has been opened for us.
- Helen Keller (1880-1968), American
campaigner for the disabled, pictured right.
No 25![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-bacon.jpg)
Our sorrows are our schoolmasters.
- Francis
Bacon (1561–1626), English politician and philosopher, pictured right.
No 26![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-roosevelt-eleanor.jpg)
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
- Eleanor
Roosevelt (1884-1962), American human rights campaigner, pictured right.
No 27![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-saunders.jpg)
Suffering is only intolerable when nobody cares.
- Cicely Saunders (1918-2005),
English founder of the modern hospice movement, pictured right.
No 28![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-winfrey.jpg)
Turn your wounds into wisdom,
- Oprah Winfrey (1954- ) African
American chat show host, pictured right.
![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-shakespeare.jpg)
So philosophy helps, as Friar Laurence in Shakespeare’s (pictured right) play, Romeo and Juliet, says:
Adversity’s sweet milk, philosophy.
No 29![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-proust.jpg)
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.,
- Marcel Proust (1871-1922) French
writer, pictured right.
No 30![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-james.jpg)
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- William James (1842-1910),
American psychologist and philosopher, pictured right.
No 31![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-keller.jpg)
Every struggle is a victory.
- Helen Keller (1880-1968), pictured
right, American campaigner for the disabled
![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-proust.jpg)
So Marcel Proust (1871-1922),
pictured right, the French writer, says:
It is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
No 32![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-henley.jpg)
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
(from the 1875 poem Invictus)
- William Henley (1849-1903), pictured right above, English poet.
No 33![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-nietzsche.jpg)
What does not destroy me makes me stronger,
- Friedrich
Nietzsche (1844-1900), pictured right, German philosopher.
No 34![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-frankl.jpg)
Suffering ceases to be suffering when we find a reason for it.
- Viktor Frankl (1905-97), pictured right, Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust
survivor.
No 35![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-epictetus.jpg)
Men are disturbed not by events, but by the views which they take of them.
- Epictetus (c.55-c.135 AD), Greek philosopher, pictured right.
No 36![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotesjohnpchan31.jpg)
Do not abandon yourselves to despair.
- John Paul II (1920-2005), pictured right,
Polish pope.
John Paul also comments:
The worst prison would be a closed heart.
No 37![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-augustine.jpg)
Pray not for a lighter load but stronger shoulders.
- St.
Augustine (354-430), pictured right, Algerian philosopher.
No 38![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-boethius.jpg)
Another cause of your sickness, and the most important, you have forgotten what you are.
- Boethius (c.470-524), pictured
right, Roman philosopher and politician
No 39![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-emerson.jpg)
Always do what you are afraid to do.
- Ralph Waldo
Emerson (1803-1882), pictured right, American philosopher.
No 40![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-epicurus.jpg)
Pleasure is... freedom from pain in the body and from disturbance in the mind.
- Epicurus (341-270 BC), Greek
philosopher (pictured right)
No 41![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-gandhi.jpg)
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
- Mahatma ( Mohandas)
Gandhi (1869-1948), pictured right, Indian leader and philosopher.
No 42![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-kierkegaard.jpg)
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55),
pictured right, Danish philosopher
No 43![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotesmore2.jpg)
We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
(talking about suffering),
- Thomas More (1477-1535), pictured
right, English philosopher and politician
No 44![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-pythagorus.jpg)
It is better to suffer, than to do wrong.
- Pythagoras (c.570-495 BC), pictured right, Greek philosopher and mathematician.
No 45![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-sartre.jpg)
Human life begins on the other side of despair.
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80),
pictured right, French philosopher
No 46![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotesschopen.jpg)
Life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome.
- Arnold
Schopenhauer (1788-1860), pictured right, German philosopher.
No 47![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-scott-peck.jpg)
Life is a series of problems.
- M. Scott
Peck (1936-2005), pictured right, American psychiatrist.
No 48![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quoteshub.jpg)
Life is just one damned thing after another.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915), American writer, pictured
right.
No 49![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-nietzsche.jpg)
He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
- Friedrich
Nietzsche (1844-1900), pictured right, German philosopher.
No 50![Stress and Pain Quotes Stress and Pain Quotes](images/quotes-schumacher.jpg)
It [materialism] speaks to us in the language of terrorism, genocide, breakdown, pollution, exhaustion,
- Ernst Friedrich (Fritz) Schumacher, pictured right, in
Small is
Beautiful (1973)
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