When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Quotations
Pain
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet.
-Neil Simon
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-Aristotle
If carefully seen, when shocked or hurt, if you are able to express your feelings,
you are relieved of it and the same when mistakenly suppressed; then that pain
in its perverted form becomes your destiny.
-Deep Trivedi
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 life is a journey then let my soul travel and share your pain.
-Santosh Kalwar
When you let go of past pain, believe in yourself, and follow your dreams—you can find true happiness!
-Casi McLean
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
-Kenji Miyazawa
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
