Love knows no pain, no sacrifice is too much for it; it is an absolute one-pointed state of mind toward the well-being of the other person who is cal….

If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their plaintive stories; for pity presupposes ….

The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other people's humil….

In truth, you like the pain. You like it because you believe you deserve it..

Writing does not numb, comfort, or soothe me. It does the opposite. It tends to excite me and reinscribe pain. It doesn't function as exorcism..

Do not take the creative process personally. At every stage, you are going to feel like it's all falling apart, like the golden egg of truth in your ….

But being honest in my work and life has kind of set me free. I'm so much more than my pain. Oh my god, I sound like my therapist! Call her, she can ….

Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us..

The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to be so. So that they indiscrimi….

How could you have guessed?” Miserable though Will was, he felt free, as if a heavy burden had been displaced from him. “I did all I could to hide an….

Either you can lie down or you can stand up and say, 'I'm going to be a man about it, go out and deal with the pain and help my team win.'.

The book and the film [This Changes Everything] fed into each other in ways that were compounding and very exciting. The pain was shared..

The dog writhing in the gutter, its back broken by a passing car, knows what it is to be alive. So too with the aged elk of the far north woods, slow….

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments..

I hate people who splash their own pain on covers, like the whole world should hear about them. Why are we all supposed to be interested in one indiv….

When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so-called good and tolerable days, I feel….

They drummed into you that pain was good, you were supposed to go with it, push into the pain, and only... now... did I contemplate what retarded adv….

We are always in awe of what the donors have done in terms of providing of themselves to the recipients. It really is a heroic act because people tak….

When I'm 18 years old, I'm at a friend's house. And his uncle looks me in me eye - you know, by this time I'm an over achiever, a pretty good student….

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

At some time in the history of the universe, there were no human minds, and at some time later, there were. Within the blink of a cosmic eye, a unive….