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"
Quotations
Pain
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet.
-Neil Simon
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain and play with it.
-Charlie Chaplin
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
-Leo Tolstoy
Best way to get rid of pain is to have some more of it....you will feel better!!
-Anonymous
You’d think that silence would be peaceful. But really, it’s painful.
-David Levithan
"Will Grayson, Will Grayson"
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-Aristotle
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
