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"
Quotations
Pain
-Trinley Thaye Dorje "Gyalwa Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje"
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet.
-Neil Simon
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
The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart.
-Jacqueline Carey
"Kushiel's Chosen"
You’d think that silence would be peaceful. But really, it’s painful.
-David Levithan
"Will Grayson, Will Grayson"
Pain is sometimes the cost of a meaningful existence. I can handle that.
-Jeb Dickerson
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
-Fernando Pessoa
"The Book of Disquiet"
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
