Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.

Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.

"Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition."

So many things I had thought forgotten Return to my mind with stranger pain: Like letters that arrive addressed to someone Who left the house so many years ago.

“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”

“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the deal.”

Pain was a fascinating horror

“He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man”

You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.

“One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.”

“I’m not really concerned about boundaries. I just follow my conscience and my heart. Follow your heart. That’s what I do. Compassion is something I have a lot of, because I’ve been through a lot of pain in my life. Anybody who has suffered a lot of pain has a lot of compassion.”

I've had some painful experiences in my life, but I feel like I'm trivializing them by using them for a scene in a movie. I don't want to do that. It just makes me feel kind of dirty for having done that.

“If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.”

“How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.”

“Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.”

“Tears are the silent language of grief.”

“Grief is the agony of an instant: the indulgence of grief is the blunder of life. ”

"The pain is kind of challenge your mind presents - will you learn how to focus and move past boredom, or like a child will you succumb to the need for immediate pleasure and distraction?"

“Pain both ways and what is worse?” 

“Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?”

“Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?”

Descend the many memories of pain” 

“There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.” 

“There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.”