- Nov 07, 2020
Pain Quotes
On pain endured, hidden, and turned into art.
This set moves between the physical and the emotional - an athlete accepting that pain eventually comes with the job, and a claim of feeling none of life's pain at all. Related reading: Silence.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sadly, if President Obama is willing to ignore the pain of race-based discrimination and injustice so as to make whites comfortable - and this, after he has already been elected and the campaign is long over - then the likelihood he will ever speak the truth about these matters, let alone address them, shrinks to nearly zero.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can wax boringly about the role of comedy in mitigating pain. For so many comedians, comedy comes out of personal despair. I'm not a very despairing person myself, but I do fear despair and the death of loved ones.
- Lips
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
- Remorse
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- Nov 07, 2020
Remorse is the pain of sin.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually see a lot of the pain and destruction, like Black Lives Matter, in the long-term as positive because it shows that we're moving forward; we're evolving and moving and challenging the frontiers.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an atheist and do not know the meaning of the 'religious pain' that is felt by believers of every cast when what they believe in is insulted.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020