If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet.
-Neil Simon
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"
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-Aristotle
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
-Leo Tolstoy
There’s nothing more painful than remembering something happy while you are distressed.
-Dante Alighieri
You’d think that silence would be peaceful. But really, it’s painful.
-David Levithan
"Will Grayson, Will Grayson"
