Blessed is the almost insensitive tree, more blessed is the hard stone that doesn't feel, for no pain is greater than the pain of being alive, and no sorrow more intense than conscious life. Rubén Darío
I wanted to dissolve into the floor, mixing myself with the hard stone. A stone had a single purpose: to be. No complicated promises, no worries and no feelings. Maria V. Snyder
A drop of rain makes no impression on a hard stone. Persian Proverb