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
Quotations
Pain
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
-Fernando Pessoa
"The Book of Disquiet"
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet.
-Neil Simon
Pain will come with time, but time will heal the pain.
-Anthony Liccione
The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart.
-Jacqueline Carey
"Kushiel's Chosen"
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
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
-Leo Tolstoy
You’d think that silence would be peaceful. But really, it’s painful.
-David Levithan
"Will Grayson, Will Grayson"
