If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet.
-Neil Simon
Quotations
Pain
There’s nothing more painful than remembering something happy while you are distressed.
-Dante Alighieri
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-Aristotle
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
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 pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart.
-Jacqueline Carey
"Kushiel's Chosen"
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
-Kenji Miyazawa
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
