Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
Pain will come with time, but time will heal the pain.
-Anthony Liccione
Pain will leave you, when you let go.
-Jeremy Aldana
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"
The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart.
-Jacqueline Carey
"Kushiel's Chosen"
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 reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet.
-Neil Simon
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