In moments of pain, we seek revenge.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

Life is hard. It is. And it's like, I don't want anybody feeling any pain.

I had surgery on my core muscles. They were ripping apart.

I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

I felt it. I heard the snap of my heart tearing in half. It wasn't a messy, dirty rip like I'd expected, but a smooth, clean line that knew just where to break to hurt me the most.

- I won't argue the point with you, it is so, and I am convinced of it, madam, as much as I can be, that both men and women bear pain or sorrow, and, for all I know, pleasure too, best in a horizontal...

We want our wounds to speak for themselves, but usually we end up having to speak for them.

It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value.

At some times in our lives, our passion makes us perpetrators of hurt and loss. At other times we are the ones who are hurt - all in the name of art. Sometimes we get what we want. Sometimes we pay...

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

After all, what is suffering but an awareness of suffering?

One fire burns out another's burning,One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.

He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world's heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world's pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging...

No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common...

Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the fate, and such the stern development, of the feminine character and person,...

To each, or about each, of his colleagues he had said at one time or other, something... something impossible to recall in this or that case and difficult to define in general terms -- some careless...

Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now

Just because she isn't human, do you think that means she doesn't feel pain?

You aren't old enough to have such regrets.""Pain doesn't respect age, my lady.

And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the full absurdity of Fate and Fortune and Nature more truly than a human can bear to know...

On Major Depression, quoted by the great William Styron of Sophie's Choice & Darkness Visible

I would bear it for her if I could

You can listen to silence, Reuven. I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. It talks to me sometimes. I feel myself alive...

In our instinctive rebellion against pain, we are children again, and demand an active will to wreak our vengeance on.

But he won't let the pain blot out the humor no more'n he'll let the humor blot out the pain.

We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

I wept because from now on I will weep less. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.

Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to...

… she claimed it's a sign of God's mercy that He won't let us remember the reddest details of pain. He knows the parts we can't bear and won't let our minds render them again. In time, from disuse,...