One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the mind. Politi….

He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and unjust resentment, thou….

As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in hi….

Gore said foreigners are not worried about 'what the terrorist networks are going to do, but about what we're going to do.' Good. They should be worr….

Seeing Neil Entwistle accused of this awful crime gives us little comfort and, in fact, only adds to our enormous pain and suffering. To think that s….

Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just to be in spiritual pain once more - '….

Your most profound and intimate experiences of worship will likely be in your darkest days - when your heart is broken, when you feel abandoned, when….

When you fall, feel the pain. And then stand up. You were born for victory. And failure has no place in your world..

I think when a society has such a profoundly dark and awful evil such as slavery in its history, then it leaves scars that are very, very deep. And u….

Remember that neither the future nor the past pains thee, but only the present. But this is reduced to a very little, if thou only circumscribest it,….

The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief..

Oh,” she said. “You can rest assured that I will kill him. Mostly this is to emphasize what I said before: no more time to lounge around and decide w….

Success is assured when a person fears the pain of regret more than the pain of the process..

I suffered no pain, my hunger had taken the edge off; instead I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and happy to be unseen by al….

Pain has no effect but to steal some of my time..

Grief is like a bomber circling round and dropping its bombs each time the circle brings it overhead; physical pain is like the steady barrage on a t….

After that [father's death] I never cried with any real conviction, nor expected much of anyone's God except indifference, nor loved deeply without f….

If you're yelling within you that they shouldn't yell at you, that is where the pain begins, not with their yelling at you..

I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it..

No. Take the heart first. Then you don't feel the cold so much. The pain so much. With the heart gone, there's no reason to stay your hand. Your eyes….

For one thing, I don't think art needs to be about suffering; sometimes it really seems like it's only the art about pain that is interpreted as prof….