Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
-Leo Tolstoy
Quotations
Pain
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain and play with it.
-Charlie Chaplin
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
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Pain and joy are like light and darkness; they are two sides of the same medal. They are interdependent and inseparably connected to each other.
-Trinley Thaye Dorje "Gyalwa Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje"
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet.
-Neil Simon
Speak not harshly to anyone. Those thus addressed will retort. Painful, indeed, is vindictive speech. Blows in exchange may bruise you.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada 133"
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-Aristotle
