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
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
When you let go of past pain, believe in yourself, and follow your dreams—you can find true happiness!
-Casi McLean
You’d think that silence would be peaceful. But really, it’s painful.
-David Levithan
"Will Grayson, Will Grayson"
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet.
-Neil Simon
The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart.
-Jacqueline Carey
"Kushiel's Chosen"
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Speak not harshly to anyone. Those thus addressed will retort. Painful, indeed, is vindictive speech. Blows in exchange may bruise you.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada 133"
Pain will come with time, but time will heal the pain.
-Anthony Liccione
