Pain is sometimes the cost of a meaningful existence. I can handle that.
-Jeb Dickerson
Quotations
Pain
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
If life is a journey then let my soul travel and share your pain.
-Santosh Kalwar
There’s nothing more painful than remembering something happy while you are distressed.
-Dante Alighieri
Speak not harshly to anyone. Those thus addressed will retort. Painful, indeed, is vindictive speech. Blows in exchange may bruise you.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada 133"
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet.
-Neil Simon
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
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"
