Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
Quotations
Pain
Pain will leave you, when you let go.
-Jeremy Aldana
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
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
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"
If life is a journey then let my soul travel and share your pain.
-Santosh Kalwar
There’s nothing more painful than remembering something happy while you are distressed.
-Dante Alighieri
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
-Leo Tolstoy
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-Aristotle
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
