Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
Quotations
Pain
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
Pain will come with time, but time will heal the pain.
-Anthony Liccione
Speak not harshly to anyone. Those thus addressed will retort. Painful, indeed, is vindictive speech. Blows in exchange may bruise you.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada 133"
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
-Leo Tolstoy
Pain will leave you, when you let go.
-Jeremy Aldana
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
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
You’d think that silence would be peaceful. But really, it’s painful.
-David Levithan
"Will Grayson, Will Grayson"
