Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
Quotations
Pain
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
-Fernando Pessoa
"The Book of Disquiet"
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
You’d think that silence would be peaceful. But really, it’s painful.
-David Levithan
"Will Grayson, Will Grayson"
When you let go of past pain, believe in yourself, and follow your dreams—you can find true happiness!
-Casi McLean
If life is a journey then let my soul travel and share your pain.
-Santosh Kalwar
There’s nothing more painful than remembering something happy while you are distressed.
-Dante Alighieri
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet.
-Neil Simon
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
Pain is sometimes the cost of a meaningful existence. I can handle that.
-Jeb Dickerson
