When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Quotations
Pain
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
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
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
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"
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-Aristotle
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
-Kenji Miyazawa
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"
