To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain and play with it.
-Charlie Chaplin
Quotations
Pain
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
-Leo Tolstoy
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-Aristotle
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Pain is sometimes the cost of a meaningful existence. I can handle that.
-Jeb Dickerson
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
-Kenji Miyazawa
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet.
-Neil Simon
