Quotations
Pain
There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what others hear from your words is so distant and different from what you are actually suffering.
- John O'donohue
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet.
- Neil Simon
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
- Barbara Kingsolver
There’s nothing more painful than remembering something happy while you are distressed.
- Dante Alighieri
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
- Fernando Pessoa
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
- Leo Tolstoy
Speak not harshly to anyone. Those thus addressed will retort. Painful, indeed, is vindictive speech. Blows in exchange may bruise you.
- Dhammapada
Pain will leave you, when you let go.
- Jeremy Aldana
Pain is sometimes the cost of a meaningful existence. I can handle that.
- Jeb Dickerson
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