Speak not harshly to anyone. Those thus addressed will retort. Painful, indeed, is vindictive speech. Blows in exchange may bruise you.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada 133"
Quotations
Pain
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada 133"
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
-Leo Tolstoy
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
The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart.
-Jacqueline Carey
"Kushiel's Chosen"
There’s nothing more painful than remembering something happy while you are distressed.
-Dante Alighieri
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"
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet.
-Neil Simon
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Best way to get rid of pain is to have some more of it....you will feel better!!
-Anonymous
You’d think that silence would be peaceful. But really, it’s painful.
-David Levithan
"Will Grayson, Will Grayson"
