Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
-Leo Tolstoy
Quotations
Pain
The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart.
-Jacqueline Carey
"Kushiel's Chosen"
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Isn't it funny that we never look into the lives of the great people whom we
worship, to dispel the miseries from our life and see, how much pain they have
endured in their life. The truth is, we fail to understand one simple and basic
fact that as long as there is life, there will be pain; no matter however great the
person may be... Their greatness is not in having a life without hardship but
because of their ability to remain cheerful even when surrounded by miseries.
-Deep Trivedi
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-Aristotle
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
If carefully seen, when shocked or hurt, if you are able to express your feelings,
you are relieved of it and the same when mistakenly suppressed; then that pain
in its perverted form becomes your destiny.
-Deep Trivedi
Pain is sometimes the cost of a meaningful existence. I can handle that.
-Jeb Dickerson
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet.
-Neil Simon
You’d think that silence would be peaceful. But really, it’s painful.
-David Levithan
"Will Grayson, Will Grayson"
