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
Quotations
Pain
Speak not harshly to anyone. Those thus addressed will retort. Painful, indeed, is vindictive speech. Blows in exchange may bruise you.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada 133"
Pain is sometimes the cost of a meaningful existence. I can handle that.
-Jeb Dickerson
There’s nothing more painful than remembering something happy while you are distressed.
-Dante Alighieri
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
-Leo Tolstoy
