Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
-Leo Tolstoy
Quotations
Pain
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 will leave you, when you let go.
-Jeremy Aldana
Pain will come with time, but time will heal the pain.
-Anthony Liccione
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain and play with it.
-Charlie Chaplin
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-Aristotle
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
-Fernando Pessoa
"The Book of Disquiet"
When you let go of past pain, believe in yourself, and follow your dreams—you can find true happiness!
-Casi McLean
The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart.
-Jacqueline Carey
"Kushiel's Chosen"
