When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Quotations
Pain
Pain is sometimes the cost of a meaningful existence. I can handle that.
-Jeb Dickerson
Pain will come with time, but time will heal the pain.
-Anthony Liccione
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
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
Best way to get rid of pain is to have some more of it....you will feel better!!
-Anonymous
There’s nothing more painful than remembering something happy while you are distressed.
-Dante Alighieri
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
Speak not harshly to anyone. Those thus addressed will retort. Painful, indeed, is vindictive speech. Blows in exchange may bruise you.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada 133"
