To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain and play with it.
-Charlie Chaplin
Quotations
Pain
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet.
-Neil Simon
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
-Fernando Pessoa
"The Book of Disquiet"
There’s nothing more painful than remembering something happy while you are distressed.
-Dante Alighieri
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
-Kenji Miyazawa
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
You’d think that silence would be peaceful. But really, it’s painful.
-David Levithan
"Will Grayson, Will Grayson"
Pain will leave you, when you let go.
-Jeremy Aldana
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
