The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs. – Gwyneth Paltrow
Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise. – George William Russell
It causes me great pain to sue the company I work for. Nevertheless, I had to do it. Suffice it to say, there’s a dispute and I believe I haven’t been given what is mine. – Howard Stern
They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I think pain is a very – it’s an extremely hard thing to empathize moment to moment. And you often don’t remember your own pain, you know, that moment that you broke a limb or you burned yourself or, I think, this is a common thing that women talk about with childbirth, that the memory of the pain is hard to summon up and relive, thankfully. – Hugh Laurie
I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing. – Hunter S. Thompson
The marathon always starts after 30K. That’s where the problems start. You start without any problems, without any pain. All the pain comes after 30K. Sometimes, it’s possible to have pain even in the finger. – Haile Gebrselassie
We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind’s collective GDP. – Henry Rollins
I am told that the majority of Iraqis wanted Saddam removed from power, but they were unwilling and were incapable of doing the job themselves because they feared Saddam and knew the pain and torture he was capable of inflicting upon them. – Howard Coble
Do not be afraid that joy will make the pain worse; it is needed like the air we breathe. – Goran Persson
Dickinson is my hero because she was a joker, because she would never explain, because as a poet she confronted pain, dread and death, and because she was capable of speaking of those matters with both levity and seriousness. She’s my hero because she was a metaphysical adventurer. – Helen Oyeyemi
Sometimes you almost have to laugh to keep from crying to deal with the pain associated with the ‘hood. – Gucci Mane
I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine. – Henry Rollins
The first year with ABT I learned 13 new roles. Most were lengthy ballets, more complicated than I was used to. I have suffered from tendinitis since I was 13, and it flared up again until the pain was paralyzing. There were times I prayed I’d be sick so I wouldn’t have to go on. – Gelsey Kirkland
I told him that I can play it if he wanted to write it, and I would be willing to try and go there emotionally. I did not know as an actress if I would be able to get there, because when you feel really deep emotions or pain, you don’t want to go back there. – Hunter Tylo
It is instilled in thousands of American males from an early age that one of their requirements is to be able to both dish out and take a lot of pain. They are taught the rules of this road in gyms, rings, backyards and fields all over America. – Henry Rollins
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them. – Hypatia
There’s a certain amount of pain and heartache that goes with being the mother of a star and that all the mothers experience. It’s not being with them as much as you like. – Georgia Holt
I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness. There are things that haunt us our entire lives; we are unable to let them go. The good times seem almost effervescent and dreamlike in comparison with the times that didn’t go so well. – Henry Rollins
In everything I write, I’m always striving to hit the right mix of light and darkness, humor and pain, fun and seriousness. – Greg van Eekhout
I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I’ve come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse. – Harold Pinter
I’m a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I’m much nicer. – Hugh Leonard
If you’d like to watch less television, try putting the remote away in a very inconvenient place and making yourself put it away every time you use it. If it’s a big pain to turn on the TV and to change channels, you might find yourself drifting to other activities that will be more satisfying in the long run. – Gretchen Rubin
It takes an extraordinary toll on me to re-live my experiences, the horrors of my past and the pain I had to endure. And yet, I believe remembering is the only way to promote healing, to promote awareness and accountability. – Ger Duany
When I decided to become a doctor, I was very, very young, when my mother, her seventh child, became pregnant, and she was feeling terrible pain, and I could not know how to help her. And my mother died in front of my eyes, without knowing why, which diagnosis. So I decided to be a doctor. – Hawa Abdi
Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It’s strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former. – Gary L. Francione
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict. – Jim Morrison