Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
Quotations
Pain
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
When you let go of past pain, believe in yourself, and follow your dreams—you can find true happiness!
-Casi McLean
Pain is sometimes the cost of a meaningful existence. I can handle that.
-Jeb Dickerson
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
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
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 are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
-Fernando Pessoa
"The Book of Disquiet"
Best way to get rid of pain is to have some more of it....you will feel better!!
-Anonymous
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"
