We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
-Kenji Miyazawa
Quotations
Pain
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
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
Best way to get rid of pain is to have some more of it....you will feel better!!
-Anonymous
Speak not harshly to anyone. Those thus addressed will retort. Painful, indeed, is vindictive speech. Blows in exchange may bruise you.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada 133"
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
You’d think that silence would be peaceful. But really, it’s painful.
-David Levithan
"Will Grayson, Will Grayson"
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"
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet.
-Neil Simon
