You’d think that silence would be peaceful. But really, it’s painful.
-David Levithan
"Will Grayson, Will Grayson"
Quotations
Pain
Pain will leave you, when you let go.
-Jeremy Aldana
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
The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart.
-Jacqueline Carey
"Kushiel's Chosen"
Pain is sometimes the cost of a meaningful existence. I can handle that.
-Jeb Dickerson
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 reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain and play with it.
-Charlie Chaplin
Speak not harshly to anyone. Those thus addressed will retort. Painful, indeed, is vindictive speech. Blows in exchange may bruise you.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada 133"
