There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
-Fernando Pessoa
"The Book of Disquiet"
Quotations
Pain
The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart.
-Jacqueline Carey
"Kushiel's Chosen"
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
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
There’s nothing more painful than remembering something happy while you are distressed.
-Dante Alighieri
When you let go of past pain, believe in yourself, and follow your dreams—you can find true happiness!
-Casi McLean
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
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
-Kenji Miyazawa
Pain will leave you, when you let go.
-Jeremy Aldana
