The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-Aristotle
Quotations
Pain
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain and play with it.
-Charlie Chaplin
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 will come with time, but time will heal the pain.
-Anthony Liccione
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
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
Speak not harshly to anyone. Those thus addressed will retort. Painful, indeed, is vindictive speech. Blows in exchange may bruise you.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada 133"
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
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
