Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
-Leo Tolstoy
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 sometimes the cost of a meaningful existence. I can handle that.
-Jeb Dickerson
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
Speak not harshly to anyone. Those thus addressed will retort. Painful, indeed, is vindictive speech. Blows in exchange may bruise you.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada 133"
If life is a journey then let my soul travel and share your pain.
-Santosh Kalwar
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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"
