Every state of welfare, every feeling of satisfaction, is negative in its character; that is to say, it consists in freedom from pain, which is the p….

Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you do….

The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending..

I believe that our deepest pain is often the path to our highest purpose..

O weary hearts! O slumbering eyes! O drooping souls, whose destinies Are fraught with fear and pain, Ye shall be loved again..

Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and simple..

I treated despair in terms of hierarchy: if there was a more important pain in the world, it meant my own was negated. I thought I simply had to acce….

We fly, but we have not 'conquered' the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of her forces as we may ….

Change comes with both fear and some pain. Those two ingredients create mistrust, misunderstanding and misinformation. Such is the process of democra….

Years ago I used to commiserate with all people who suffered. Now I commiserate only with those who suffer in ignorance, who do not understand the pu….

Remorse is sorrow over being caught and the pain of consequences that follow. Repentance is not being concerned for ourselves but having a contrite h….

We're gonna get high, high, high, when we're low. The fires burn from better days. She scream why, oh why? I said I don't know!.

When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over..

We live in a society running from pain through alcohol, through too much exercise, through sugar, through drugs - as opposed to realizing that these ….

Nothing helps us build our perspective more than developing compassion for others. Compassion is a sympathetic feeling. It involves the willingness t….

When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves..

It's really hard seeing somebody you love be in pain and be ill and there's nothing you can do. What's interesting is people act in so many different….

The psychological pain--and the ethical shame--of American poverty are made greater by the fact that this country possesses the wealth and the energy….

Composition is a process of combination, in which thought puts together complementary truths, and talent fuses into harmony the most contrary qualiti….

For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain, but I like that. It's a reality….

The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga..