Ruben Dario Quotes

Pain is a beautiful thing. When you feel pain, you know you're alive.

One thing about pain: It proves you're alive.

How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?

Where there is a mind, there are feelings such as pain, pleasure, and joy. No sentient being wants pain: all wants happiness instead.

Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.

If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?

To look to God is to look to the realm of consciousness that can deliver us from the pain of living.

If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution.

Wars, invented and organized by the highest available consciousnesses (do the worms go to war? do the fish? do the paramecia?), are the planet's chief source and cause of torment.

To be alive at all is to have scars.

There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.

To be alive is to be vulnerable.

Is one human? Or merely alive? Like a blade of grass equal to all existance in the moment it is torn? Yes. If pain is fundament, then a blade of grass can know all there is.

When you're in pain, you're genuinely very, very alive, and that's beautiful. Especially emotional pain.

So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be able to lift anything without agony. Every passing minute will make your muscles crack. What is feather to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become difficult. Life will become monstrous about you. To come, to go, to breathe, will be so many terrible tasks for you. Your lungs will feel like a hundred-pound weight.

I find it difficult to feel responsible for the suffering of others. That's why I find war so hard to bear. It's the same with animals: I feel the less harm I do, the lighter my heart. I love a light heart. And when I know I'm causing suffering, I feel the heaviness of it. It's a physical pain. So it's self-interest that I don't want to cause harm.

At the core of everything that is hurtful to humanity is a lack of consciousness.

Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who don't suffer, time flows, so that they don't live in time, in fact they never have.

Men sometimes confess they love war because it puts them in touch with the experience of being alive. In going to the office every day, you don't get that experience, but suddenly in war, you are ripped back into being alive. Life is pain; life is suffering; and life is horror - but, by God, you are alive.

Compassion is one of the highest states of consciousness that you can choose to assist you in times of enormous pain.

Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity.

Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!

We are the spirit, the collective conscience. We create the pain, and suffering, and beauty in this world.

...The pain didn't bother me. In fact, I welcome it: It meant I was alive.