When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Quotations
Pain
The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart.
-Jacqueline Carey
"Kushiel's Chosen"
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
There’s nothing more painful than remembering something happy while you are distressed.
-Dante Alighieri
Pain is sometimes the cost of a meaningful existence. I can handle that.
-Jeb Dickerson
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
-Kenji Miyazawa
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 and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
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
When you let go of past pain, believe in yourself, and follow your dreams—you can find true happiness!
-Casi McLean
