"I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy."

"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."

"Remembering is only a new form of suffering."

"And then I was crying too, crying with Danny, silently, for his pain and for the years of his suffering, knowing that I loved him, and not knowing whether I hated or loved the long, anguished years of his life."

"Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way."

"What, then, is the effect of pesticides? Pesticides have created a legacy of pain, and misery, and death for farm workers and consumers alike. The crop which poses the greatest danger, and the focus of our struggle, is the table grape crop. These pesticides soak the fields. Drift with the wind, pollute the water, and are eaten by unwitting consumers. These poisons are designed to kill, and pose a very real threat to consumers and farm workers alike."

"We are suffering. We have suffered. And we are not afraid to suffer in order to win our cause."

"I don't enjoy. I suffer from enjoying. It's very Christian."

"Wonderful music like this was the worst hurt there could be. The whole world was the symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen."

"There was a hollow in her chest, but at the bottom of this emptiness a heavy weight pressed down and bruised her stomach, so that she felt sick."

"The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen."

"There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too."

"Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge."

"Pain is the root of knowledge"

"Do not consider painful what is good for you."

"It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line."

"Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude."

"The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight."

"Pain, thou art not an evil"

"Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart."

"Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing & any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt"

"Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is."

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

Comedy is probably a way of dealing with anxiety. Sometimes it's a way of dealing with pain.