The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-Aristotle
Quotations
Pain
Pain will leave you, when you let go.
-Jeremy Aldana
Pain will come with time, but time will heal the pain.
-Anthony Liccione
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
-Leo Tolstoy
The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart.
-Jacqueline Carey
"Kushiel's Chosen"
There’s nothing more painful than remembering something happy while you are distressed.
-Dante Alighieri
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet.
-Neil Simon
