If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet.
-Neil Simon
Quotations
Pain
There’s nothing more painful than remembering something happy while you are distressed.
-Dante Alighieri
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain and play with it.
-Charlie Chaplin
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"
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart.
-Jacqueline Carey
"Kushiel's Chosen"
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-Aristotle
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
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
-Leo Tolstoy
