I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.

Writhe and sway to music's pain searing with asides, caress death with a lover's touch for it shall be your bride.

There is nothing abstract about pain. It is specific, it is real, and, when it is intense, it is world destroying.

... it is highly unlikely that a structural derangement could produce pain equal in severity to acute muscle spasm.

Last dance with Mary Jane One more time to kill the pain I feel summer creepin' in and I'm Tired of this town again

To care only about your pain and suffering, and disregard the emotional toll of others is hypocritically sub-human.

When one of us tells the truth, he makes it easier for all of us to open our hearts to our pain and that of others.

Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.

Choosing not to act on an angry impulse and to feel the pain that lies beneath it is a very courageous thing to do.

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.

There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.

Ease, a neutral state between pain and pleasure ... if it is not rising into pleasure will be falling towards pain.

[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.

There is such sweet pain in parting that I could hang forever on thine arms, and look away my life into thine eyes.

Grow up. Get a life. Life is pain. Anybody who tells you something other than that is trying to sell you something.

It pains me deeply to see members of my own party attempting to legislate women's health and contraception choices.

Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell, . . . . And boldly venture to whatever place Farthest from pain?

Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.

Don't denounce our pain as savage. What's savage is the cruel inhumanity and brutality of the police. Condemn that.

Love is the fart Of every heart It pains the man when 'tis kept close, And others doth offend, when 'tis let loose.

Only the most saintly and delusional among us welcomes all pain as challenge, perceives all loss as harsh blessing.

I've done acupuncture, and I believe in it. That's the first place I go if I'm having any particular pain anywhere.

I asked Agamemnon plainly about Iphigenia; he wept. Not as one cries out of pain, but out of fear. Out of weakness.

When you fall, feel the pain. And then stand up. You were born for victory. And failure has no place in your world.

Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.

Why cling to the pain and the wrongs of yesterday? Why hold on to the very things that keep you from hope and love.

A glance, a word -- and joy or pain befalls.... How slight the links are in the chain that binds us to our destiny!

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?

Even though you have pain in your legs, you can do it. Even though your practice is not good enough, you can do it.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Given a little time for the pain to subside, dreadful experiences often can be the basis of funny jokes or stories.

The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

When I make a tackle or make a play and I have a slight pain or something, you're going to react the way you react.

Whether joy or sorrow, pain or pleasure; whatsoever may befall thee, accept it serenely with an unvanquished heart.

I just want them to keep bringing guys on and I'am going to strip them of their health. I bring pain a lot of pain.

While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickness, and sorrow.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

Song of God and Son of Man, there He hangs, bearing pains unutterable, the just for the unjust, to bring us to God.

When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering," a deep healing begins.

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliché for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

Never hear what somebody thinks about you, you'll live longer. Hear that they're in pain. Don't hear their analysis.

When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.

There's a certain class of people who will do you in and then remain completely mystified by the depth of your pain.

I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'

Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can’t feel pain, you aren’t gonna feel anything else, either.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

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