The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart.
-Jacqueline Carey
"Kushiel's Chosen"
Quotations
Pain
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
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain and play with it.
-Charlie Chaplin
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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"
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet.
-Neil Simon
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
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"
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
