Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
Quotations
Pain
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
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
You’d think that silence would be peaceful. But really, it’s painful.
-David Levithan
"Will Grayson, Will Grayson"
Pain and joy are like light and darkness; they are two sides of the same medal. They are interdependent and inseparably connected to each other.
-Trinley Thaye Dorje "Gyalwa Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje"
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"
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"
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-Aristotle
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet.
-Neil Simon
