I'd felt that a man without a woman was like a neck without a pain..

People who concern themselves with the rights of other adults who engage in consensual acts involving sex, love, and/or eating croissants together ar….

Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal..

The life I've had, the difficulties, the hardships, the pain I've suffered since I was a child. It's a great privilege to have led a difficult life, ….

[T]he astonishing purity of pain, how it will not be mixed with any other sensation..

Do you think if it was the fairy tale about a man who lived inside of a whale and it was religion that Jack built a beanstalk today, you would know t….

You have no idea how much pain I'm in. It's like being cut open every day, bleeding onto the stones. I can't understand how any of you failed to see ….

The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish..

Healing is a different type of pain. It’s the pain of becoming aware of the power of one’s strength and weakness, of one’s capacity to love or do dam….

You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it..

In order to dominate the soul you must also learn to dominate the body. And in order to dominate the body you cannot fear pain..

Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure. The only rule is, suffer the pain. Your desires must be disciplined And what you want….

You could string a hundred endless days together, My soul would find no comfort from this pain. You laugh at my tale? You may be educated But you hav….

Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance, how well you ar….

Failure honestly can be like the best lesson and it's like the one that like God wants you to really pay attention to. That's why it hurts. The pain ….

I was battling depression, went through a really hard time in my marriage, and I used to cry myself to sleep. I went through years and years of pain ….

In a way, forgiving is only for the brave. It is for those people who are willing to confront their pain, accept themselves as permanently changed, a….

I am not saying that I am different, but I don't have emotional pain. I may be angry and I may be peaceful, but no emotional pain..

I feel pain everywhere. A lot of guys in chairs do feel their legs. But if you don't, there's a thing called disreflex, so you know if something happ….

Once when we were fifteen, River (Phoenix) and I went out for this fancy dinner in Manhattan and I ordered soft-shell crabs. He left the restaurant a….

It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that’s the sin that can’t be forgiven--that I hadn’t done what I wanted. It feels so dirty and pointl….