When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Quotations
Pain
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
-Fernando Pessoa
"The Book of Disquiet"
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain and play with it.
-Charlie Chaplin
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
-Kenji Miyazawa
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet.
-Neil Simon
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
Pain will come with time, but time will heal the pain.
-Anthony Liccione
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-Aristotle
