A man was defined, in my father’s circles, by what he could bear, the pain he could shrug off, the warmth or comfort he could deny himself. – John Burnside
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain. – John Henry Newman
A lot of the characters I’ve played before are heroic or invincible in some ways and not tuned into fear and anxiety and pain. – Jason Statham
The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure. – Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Often, parents feel overwhelmed. Many must accomplish the whole job single-handedly while bearing all of the emotional pain of divorce. – Joseph B. Wirthlin
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain. – John Stuart Mill
The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
When I did the film ‘Hear My Voice’ a few years ago, I disappeared fully up my own backside for a while. Because I thought my career was taking off, I became a bit of an egomaniac and a pain in the neck. I thought I was God’s gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best. – James Nesbitt
We all want to feel spiritually vigorous, and we hurt when we don’t. This pain is intensified for people who lead church ministries. – John Ortberg
I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry… just make me feel alive. – Joey Lauren Adams
Doctors have told me I have a high pain threshold, but I can only know what I feel. I think I’m good at minimising the pain and being indifferent to it. – Johnny Knoxville
The web and physical world is plagued with abundance – people need help sorting through all the good and bad stuff out there. The tyranny of choice is causing major psychic pain and frustration for people. – Jason Calacanis
Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning. – Joyce Carol Oates
Young people can be disruptive and screw up classes. But even if they are being a pain in the arse it’s a cry for help – they don’t feel like they are being listened to. – Jamie Oliver
You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life. – Harold Feinstein
I think, as an artist, you have to have experienced some deep turmoil, some kind of pain, because that’s what connects you with the world. That’s what makes it juicy! – Jill Scott
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. – Henri Nouwen
I think plays have nothing to do with one’s own personal life. Not in my experience, anyway. The stuff of drama has to do, not with your subject matter, anyway, but with how you treat it. Drama includes pain, loss, regret – that’s what drama is about! – Harold Pinter
My parents’ divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that. – Jennifer Aniston
Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. – Jeremy Bentham
If it doesn’t work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain. – Jimmy Buffett
The basic rhymes in English are masculine, which is to say that the last syllable of the line is stressed: ‘lane’ rhymes with ‘pain,’ but it also rhymes with ‘urbane’ since the last syllable of ‘urbane’ is stressed. ‘Lane’ does not rhyme with ‘methane.’ – James Fenton
I almost resent the whole fashion thing. Good God- never wearing the same thing twice and all of those things. It’s a pain in the ass. – Jennifer Aniston
This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one’s home and family. – John Thorn
As a child I was not allowed to express my feelings, so I had to go back through therapy and express the child’s pain. – John Bradshaw