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“If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?”
“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 pai...”
“I think that when you make yourself vulnerable, the thing that you do next is better. It's not like you have to inflict pain on yourself in order to make yourself better, but I think it helps. The ...”
“I don't know what to say to that, but I have to agree with Johnny that, yeah, we do touch upon things that most men would rather not admit: That we feel pain, we cry, get sad and sometimes don't de...”
“If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.”
“We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as tempt...”
“Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.”
“Hip hop is the strongest form of protest there is, and it doesn't always have to be a violent protest. It can be romantic, also. When you listen to Kanye West's 'Street Lights' for example, there's...”
“Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.”
“Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.”
“It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.”
“You have to understand the Newark Riots - a lot of people understand that the pain was the initial explosion of anger and alienation, but after that, the response, sending the National Guard troops...”
“I think, often, when you are in just a lot of pain, it comes out as anger.”
“I think there is a big difference between expressing the pain and anger that many African Americans and other people of color may feel versus language that I think now crosses the line and goes int...”
“For me, triathlons were something that was down to me and my fitness. Now, I really enjoy the pain in the triathlon of chasing someone down. It's a bit like chasing down Nico Rosberg in the last fe...”
“Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definit...”
“Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.”
“The thing was, if I had found a way to escape- even for just a little while- I knew the pain would be there waiting for me when I got back.”
“The pain would not leave him. It came to him like the tide that hits the sea.”
“Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment woman accepts it as a natural heritage.”
