There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
-Fernando Pessoa
"The Book of Disquiet"
Quotations
Pain
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 is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain and play with it.
-Charlie Chaplin
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"
The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart.
-Jacqueline Carey
"Kushiel's Chosen"
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
Speak not harshly to anyone. Those thus addressed will retort. Painful, indeed, is vindictive speech. Blows in exchange may bruise you.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada 133"
