A remedy [for masturbation] which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision, especially when there is any degree of phimosis. The ope….

Everybody's heart is like a cup. They stumble from place to place and person to person, trying to get them filled. They get cracked, those cups, and ….

Percy’d heard stories about amputees who had phantom pains where their missing legs and arms used to be. That’s how his mind felt—like his missing me….

Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friend….

PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused b….

It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment..

Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth..

when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it's very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain..

I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts- because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting... I had been told that a 'fun….

Great and frequent reverses can crush and mar our bliss both by the pain they cause and by the hindrance they offer to many activities. Yet neverthel….

The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it..

Smile, though your heart is aching Smile, even though it's breaking When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by If you smile through your pain a….

Of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to, every time. If it pains them to make ….

What humor allows you to do is to let the past go with less pain. It's a healing element. It releases some of the pain from the shotgun wound..

Love should make joy; but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain ourselves….

The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'.

Love will never be anywhere except where equality and unity are..... And there can be no love where love does not find equality or is not busy creati….

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal,….

The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation..

When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain….

It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a poor one; so I would have no work of art, no sp….