Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
-Leo Tolstoy
Quotations
Pain
You’d think that silence would be peaceful. But really, it’s painful.
-David Levithan
"Will Grayson, Will Grayson"
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
-Fernando Pessoa
"The Book of Disquiet"
Speak not harshly to anyone. Those thus addressed will retort. Painful, indeed, is vindictive speech. Blows in exchange may bruise you.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada 133"
Pain is sometimes the cost of a meaningful existence. I can handle that.
-Jeb Dickerson
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
Best way to get rid of pain is to have some more of it....you will feel better!!
-Anonymous
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet.
-Neil Simon
If life is a journey then let my soul travel and share your pain.
-Santosh Kalwar
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-Aristotle
