A young critic is like a boy with a gun; he fires at every living thing he sees. He thinks only of his own skill, not of the pain he is giving..

The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential..

Pain is an event ... Suffering, on the other hand, is the nightmare reliving of unscrutinized and unmetabolized pain..

Prison officials have been more concerned about sparing the sensitivities of executioners and witnesses than protecting the condemned prisoner from p….

In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain.

What I mean is sometimes, for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift..

It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fon….

At first he thought he felt bad because he was afraid of leading an army, but it wasn't true. He knew he'd make a good commander. He felt himself wan….

In the book Soldiers on the Home Front, I was greatly struck by the fact that in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer more pain, illness and miser….

According to physiological law, all natural, normal functions of the body are achieved without peril or pain. Birth is a natural, normal physiologica….

Get support and be surrounded by people who love you. Sit with the discomfort and the emotions instead of distracting yourself and numbing the pain, ….

When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story ….

The fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.

I learned dancing because I loved dancing. It took away the pain, it took away everything, I was happy when I was dancing. I got a lot of respect whe….

There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the deca….

I have no pride about anything I have done. It's just not the way I think about things. I do the work, always, as hard as I can, to the point of pain….

Don't google your name. Ever. Don't “search” for yourself on anything that glows in the dark. Don't let your beauty be something anyone can turn off….

All pain is the same. Only the details are different..

It pains me deeply to see members of my own party attempting to legislate women's health and contraception choices..

Pain is only what you allow it to be.

Pain and happiness are simply conditions of the ego. Forget the ego..