Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
Quotations
Pain
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 and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
Pain is sometimes the cost of a meaningful existence. I can handle that.
-Jeb Dickerson
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
-Leo Tolstoy
The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart.
-Jacqueline Carey
"Kushiel's Chosen"
Speak not harshly to anyone. Those thus addressed will retort. Painful, indeed, is vindictive speech. Blows in exchange may bruise you.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada 133"
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"
Best way to get rid of pain is to have some more of it....you will feel better!!
-Anonymous
Pain will come with time, but time will heal the pain.
-Anthony Liccione
