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
Quotations
Pain
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"
Pain will leave you, when you let go.
-Jeremy Aldana
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
-Kenji Miyazawa
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
-Leo Tolstoy
You’d think that silence would be peaceful. But really, it’s painful.
-David Levithan
"Will Grayson, Will Grayson"
