Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
Quotations
Pain
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
-Leo Tolstoy
Speak not harshly to anyone. Those thus addressed will retort. Painful, indeed, is vindictive speech. Blows in exchange may bruise you.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada 133"
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
-Kenji Miyazawa
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-Aristotle
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain and play with it.
-Charlie Chaplin
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"
Best way to get rid of pain is to have some more of it....you will feel better!!
-Anonymous
Pain will leave you, when you let go.
-Jeremy Aldana
