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
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
If life is a journey then let my soul travel and share your pain.
-Santosh Kalwar
Speak not harshly to anyone. Those thus addressed will retort. Painful, indeed, is vindictive speech. Blows in exchange may bruise you.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada 133"
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
-Kenji Miyazawa
There’s nothing more painful than remembering something happy while you are distressed.
-Dante Alighieri
If carefully seen, when shocked or hurt, if you are able to express your feelings,
you are relieved of it and the same when mistakenly suppressed; then that pain
in its perverted form becomes your destiny.
-Deep Trivedi
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-Aristotle
Pain is sometimes the cost of a meaningful existence. I can handle that.
-Jeb Dickerson
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain and play with it.
-Charlie Chaplin
