The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-Aristotle
Quotations
Pain
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
Pain will leave you, when you let go.
-Jeremy Aldana
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
-Fernando Pessoa
"The Book of Disquiet"
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet.
-Neil Simon
Isn't it funny that we never look into the lives of the great people whom we
worship, to dispel the miseries from our life and see, how much pain they have
endured in their life. The truth is, we fail to understand one simple and basic
fact that as long as there is life, there will be pain; no matter however great the
person may be... Their greatness is not in having a life without hardship but
because of their ability to remain cheerful even when surrounded by miseries.
-Deep Trivedi
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"
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
-Kenji Miyazawa
There’s nothing more painful than remembering something happy while you are distressed.
-Dante Alighieri
