Emotional Pain Quotes

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Emotional pain can feel more intense than physical pain. While broken bones heal with time, wounds in our hearts and minds can linger. This collection of quotes explores the deep suffering of emotional pain, reminding us we’re not alone and healing is possible.

Emotional Pain Quotes

1. The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
– Sophocles

2. The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
– John Milton

3. Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it it more common and also more hard to bear.
– C.S. Lewis

4. The worst wounds, the deadliest of them, aren’t the ones people see on the outside. They’re the ones that make us bleed internally.
– Sherrilyn Kenyon

5. The most painful goodbyes are the ones that are never said and never explained.
– Unknown

6. The human condition is both the pain of the mind and the suffering of the body.
– Arthur Schopenhauer

7. Sometimes, the worst place you can be is in your own head.
– Unknown

8. The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
– David Russell

9. We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
– Seneca

10. Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.
– Leonardo da Vinci

Emotional Pain Quotes

11. The deepest wounds aren’t the ones we get from other people hurting us. They’re the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.
– Isobelle Carmody

12. The real pain in life comes from the heartbreaks, betrayals, and failures that reside in our hearts and minds.
– Unknown

13. There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.
– Laurell K. Hamilton

14. What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
– Plutarch

15. Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.
– Ezra Taft Benson

16. It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
– Julius Caesar

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

18. The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
– Sophocles

19. Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
– Veronica Roth

20. There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
– Aeschylus

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