Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
Quotations
Pain
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
-Leo Tolstoy
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain and play with it.
-Charlie Chaplin
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 reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
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"
When you let go of past pain, believe in yourself, and follow your dreams—you can find true happiness!
-Casi McLean
The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart.
-Jacqueline Carey
"Kushiel's Chosen"
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
