You’d think that silence would be peaceful. But really, it’s painful.
-David Levithan
"Will Grayson, Will Grayson"
Quotations
Pain
Pain will leave you, when you let go.
-Jeremy Aldana
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-Aristotle
There’s nothing more painful than remembering something happy while you are distressed.
-Dante Alighieri
Pain is sometimes the cost of a meaningful existence. I can handle that.
-Jeb Dickerson
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 you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet.
-Neil Simon
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 are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
-Fernando Pessoa
"The Book of Disquiet"
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"
