Quotations
Pain
Speak not harshly to anyone. Those thus addressed will retort. Painful, indeed, is vindictive speech. Blows in exchange may bruise you.
- Dhammapada
The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart.
- Jacqueline Carey
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet.
- Neil Simon
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
- Nick Bantock
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
There’s nothing more painful than remembering something happy while you are distressed.
- Dante Alighieri
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
- Aristotle
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
- Leo Tolstoy
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain and play with it.
- Charlie Chaplin
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
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