If you are seeking some of the most insightful sayings, proverbs, and quotes about hiding pain, you’ve come to the right place. 🙌
In this list, I have found some of the most revealing, truthful, wise, inspiring, eye-opening, and truthful quotes about hiding pain that are sure to resonate.
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103+ Revealing Quotes About Hiding Pain
1. “It hurts because it matters.” – John Green
2. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey
3. “Pain is real. But so is hope.” – Unknown
4. “What hurts us is what heals us.” – Paulo Coelho
5. “The cure for pain is in the pain.” – Rumi
6. “It is when we hurt that we learn.” – Steve Maraboli
7. “Love is the sweetest pain inside.” – Tarkan
8. “Tears are words the heart can’t say.” – Gerard Way
9. “Embrace the feeling. Start the healing.” – Maxime Lagacé
10. “Among my stillness was a pounding heart.” – Shannon A. Thompson
11. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
12. “God is closest to those with broken hearts.” – Jewish saying
13. “The marks humans leave are too often scars.” – John Green
14. “Two barrels of tears will not heal a bruise.” – Chinese proverb
15. “The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.” – Thomas Jefferson
16. “Waste no tears over the grieves of yesterday.” – Euripides
17. “Don’t let pain define you, let it refine you.” – Tim Fargo
18. “I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.” – Haruki Murakami
19. “It doesn’t hurt to feel sad from time to time.” – Willie Nelson
20. “I felt so much, that I started to feel nothing.” – Unknown
21. “The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.” – Wendy Waasmtah
22. “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
23. “That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.” – John Green
24. “Every pain is a gift. Every pain is an opportunity.” – Maxime Lagacé
Famous Quotes About Hiding Pain
25. “People go through so much pain trying to avoid pain.” – Neil Strauss
26. “Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.” – Carl Jung
27. “We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.” – Charles Bukowski
28. “No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.” – George Jean Nathan
29. “I’m exhausted from trying to be stronger than l feel.” – Unknown
30. “You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.” – Ernest Hemingway
31. “The pain will leave once it has finished teaching you.” – Unknown
32. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Ludwig Jacobowski
33. “Hurt me with the truth but never comfort me with a lie.” – Unknown
34. “What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.” – Charles Bukowski
35. “The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.” – Publilius Syrus
36. “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” – Kenji Miyazawa
37. “I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.” – Jewish proverb
38. “One thing you can’t hide – is when you’re crippled inside.” – John Lennon
39. “I still own my heart, which I know because it hurts so much.” – Emilie Autumn
Hurtful Quotes About Hiding Pain
40. “Behind every beautiful thing, there’s been some kind of pain.” – Bob Dylan
41. “Only those who care about you can hear you when you’re quiet.” – Unknown
42. “Too often, behind that smile of mine, I hide a thousand tears.” – Alex V.
43. “The worst part is feeling you lost a part of yourself, forever.” – Maxime Lagacé
44. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” – Maya Angelou
45. “Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.” – Roy T. Bennett
46. “The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the deal.” – C.S. Lewis
47. “Sooner or later, you will need to make friends with disappointment.” – Dr. SunWolf
48. “The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.” – Unknown
49. “To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.” – Charlie Chaplin
50. “Forget what hurt you in the past, but never forget what it taught you.” – Shannon L. Alder
51. “There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.” – Dante Alighieri
52. “Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.” – George R.R
53. “If you ever think about giving up, remember why you held on for so long.” – Hayley Williams
54. “Pain is sometimes the cost of a meaningful existence. I can handle that.” – Jeb Dickerson
55. “You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.” – Bob Marley
56. “Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.” – J.K. Rowling
57. “To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
58. “Where the wound has been given, there must the cure be found, if anywhere.” – Jane Austen
59. “Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.” – Joseph Campbell
60. “I’m a simple person who hides a thousand feelings behind the happiest smile.” – Unknown
61. “Sometimes your heart needs more time to accept what your mind already knows.” – Unknown
62. “We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.” – Alan Watts
63. “We find comfort among those who agree with us — growth among those who don’t.” – Frank A. Clark
64. “Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.” – David Richo
65. “Often it’s the deepest pain which empowers you to grow into your highest self.” – Unknown
66. “When the clouds get too heavy, it rains. When your pain gets too bad, you cry.” – Unknown
67. “Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.” – William Shakespeare
68. “You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.” – J.K. Rowling
69. “Knowing what it feels to be in pain, is exactly why we try to be kind to others.” – Jiraiya
70. “My biggest mistake is thinking that people care for me as much as I do for them.” – Unknown
71. “Smiling is the best way to face every problem, to crush every fear, to hide every pain.” – Will Smith
72. “Smiling is the best way to face any problem, to crush every fear and to hide every pain.” – Unknown
73. “If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.” – Henry David Thoreau
74. “The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential — and enemies to push us beyond it.” – Robert Brault
75. “Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” – José N. Harris
76. “Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.” – Bob Marley
77. “No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.” – Unknown
78. “Pretending to be happy when you’re in paln is just an example of how strong you are as a person.” – Unknown
79. “You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world. But you do have some say in who hurts you.” – John Green
80. “We carry our burden on and on, until one day, suddenly, we laugh and set it down upon the ground.” – Muriel Strode
81. “After the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here.” – Walt Disney
82. “Somewhere inside that hurting body, there is something better, something stronger, something real.” – R. M. Drake
83. “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
84. “Sometimes the prettiest smiles hide the deepest secrets. And the kindest hearts have felt the most pain.” – Unknown
85. “My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.” – Charlie Chaplin
86. “Don’t try to understand everything, because sometimes it isn’t meant to be understood, but to be accepted.” – Unknown
87. “I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is.” – Anne Sexton
88. “Growth in painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.” – Unknown
89. “It is when I struggle that I strengthen. It is when challenged to my core that I learn the depth of who I am.” – Steve Maraboli
90. “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” – Lois Lowry
91. “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
92. “Sometimes, when I say ‘I’m okay.’ ‘I want someone to look me in the eyes, hug me tight and say, ‘I know you’re not.'” – Unknown
93. “If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you’ll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.” – Sharon Salzberg
94. “You may have had unfair things happen to you, but the depth of your pain is an indication of the height of your future.” – Joel Osteen
95. “If I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes then share with me your smile.” – Santosh Kalwar
96. “The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.” – Ernest Hemingway
97. “Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, “What else could this mean?” – Shannon L. Alder
98. “Never underestimate the pain of a person, because in, all honesty, everyone is struggling. Some people are better at hiding it.” – Will Smith
99. “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
100. “Every heart has a pain. Only the way of expressing it is different. Fools hide it in eyes, while brilliant hide it in their smile.” – Unknown