Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
Quotations
Pain
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-Aristotle
Pain will leave you, when you let go.
-Jeremy Aldana
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
-Leo Tolstoy
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 is sometimes the cost of a meaningful existence. I can handle that.
-Jeb Dickerson
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
Pain will come with time, but time will heal the pain.
-Anthony Liccione
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 is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
