Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
Quotations
Pain
Pain will come with time, but time will heal the pain.
-Anthony Liccione
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"
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"
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
If life is a journey then let my soul travel and share your pain.
-Santosh Kalwar
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet.
-Neil Simon
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-Aristotle
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
