When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Quotations
Pain
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
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 is sometimes the cost of a meaningful existence. I can handle that.
-Jeb Dickerson
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-Aristotle
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
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
There’s nothing more painful than remembering something happy while you are distressed.
-Dante Alighieri
When you let go of past pain, believe in yourself, and follow your dreams—you can find true happiness!
-Casi McLean
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
-Leo Tolstoy
