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Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.
Joseph Butler
Compassion
Mind
Pain
Our
Ourselves
Distressed
Misery
Puts
Sorrow
Well
Debt
Owe
Us
Right
Assistance
When I started with music, all I was looking for was to ensure I never had to live the life I grew up with. I wanted a foolproof exemption from pain and boredom. I wanted a life of constant amusement and leisure.
Josh Tillman
Life
Music
Looking
Pain
Live
Ensure
Constant
Boredom
Foolproof
Never
Had
Exemption
Up
Wanted
Grew
Leisure
Started
Amusement
Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
Kanye West
Art
Great
You
Creative
Pain
Great Art
Say
Minute
Output
Know
Cliche
Going
Just
Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.
Karen Armstrong
Good
News
People
Listening
Good News
Pain
Back
Our
Lies
Also
Another
Hear
Encourage
Lot
Histories
Just
Stories
Use
I believe that often people even stay in bad relationships longer than they should because the fear of the pain of dating is scarier than the pain of a bad relationship!
Karen Salmansohn
Relationship
People
Fear
Pain
Believe
Relationships
Bad
Stay
Dating
Longer
Because
Than
Often
Should
Even
For better and for worse, I feel like sorrow and grief are really transformative personal experiences for me, and I question what I would be had I decided to take a different path and not embrace that kind of pain.
Karyn Kusama
Me
Grief
Better
Path
Pain
Worse
Kind
Would
Would-Be
Embrace
Take
Had
Feel
Like
Sorrow
Question
Personal
Personal Experiences
Different
Experiences
Decided
Transformative
Really
Different Path
That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.
Kathy Mattea
Great
You
Joy
Just Be
Pain
Living
Earth
Those
Paradox
Great Joy
Well
Just
Midst
Things
Numb
There are times you break up with a loved one, a friend, or whatever. You feel alone. It's a very easy feeling to understand - the feeling of loss, heartache, and pain.
Kenny Omega
Alone
You
Feeling
Whatever
Pain
Easy
Feel
Understand
Loss
Friend
Up
Heartache
Very
Times
Break
Loved
Break Up
Loved One
It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
Lord Byron
Me
You
Pay
Pain
No Idea
Gives
Idea
Make
Very
Debts
I remember as a kid watching one of the Olympic games, and I was cheering for a big track athlete. He was the favorite to win, and he lost. I realized in that moment the pain he felt was so much greater than the pain that those who never thought they were going to win would have felt had they lost.
Malcolm Gladwell
Win
Remember
Thought
Big
Lost
Pain
Kid
Those
Favorite
Would
Athlete
Never
Had
He
Cheering
Track
Greater
Felt
Were
Than
Going
Realized
Much
Games
Moment
Who
Watching
Olympic
Olympic Games
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.
Matthew Henry
Great
Pain
Sigh
Extremity
Only
Anguish
He
Roar
His
Did
I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you're expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you're not asking for it.
Matthew McConaughey
You
People
Will
Advice
Pain
Say
One Of The Things
Give
Unsolicited
How
How Much
Expecting
Children
Much
Asking
Things
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
Michelangelo
Beautiful
Pain
See
Gives
Never
Failing
Beautiful Thing
Does
Hear
Much
Thing
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.
Milan Kundera
Compassion
Own
Nothing
Pain
Imagination
Hundred
Prolonged
Someone
Weighs
Feels
Than
Intensified
Heavier
Heavy
Even
British people don't express when they are in pain. They don't think it's elegant.
Monica Bellucci
People
Pain
Think
British People
Elegant
Express
British
When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith.
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
Faith
Justice
Hurt
People
Nation
Before
Pain
Cries
Relationships
Kindle
About
Lays
Crucible
Fires
He
Calling
His
American
Race
American People
Deep
Elemental
Petition
If you live your life as a hostage to everybody else's decision, you either have to live a very narrow life, or you have to spend a lot of time in pain.
Newt Gingrich
Life
Time
You
Decision
Pain
Live
Everybody
Else
Spend
Hostage
Narrow
Lot
Very
Either
Your
What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
Ovid
Grief
Pain
Must
Borne
Calmness
Suffered
We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all - most of us, anyway - want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.
Paul Auster
Life
Generation
People
Looking
Pain
Lust
Sick
Other
Our
Spend
Our Lives
Consistent
Hunger
Feel
Most
Get
Die
Human
Want
Anyway
Them
Us
Human Life
Therefore
Connections
Lives
The joy and the pain for me is about tightroping between being a cynic and being a romantic - the tug between barely believing in anything and hoping for everything.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Me
Joy
Pain
Everything
Hoping
About
Between
Tug
Being
Romantic
Anything
Barely
Cynic
Believing
No one can escape life's pain. That's life.
Pierce Brosnan
Life
Pain
No-One
Escape
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
Saint Augustine
Life
Class
Animal
Pain
Action
Every
Pleasure
Seeking
Animal Life
Beasts
Concerned
Common
Bodily
Certainly
Avoiding
I've seen the struggles and the heartache and the pain that goes along with being in the fight game.
Samoa Joe
Game
Fight
Seen
Pain
Struggles
Along
Heartache
Goes
Being
When I hear other people's stories, I like to believe that they contribute to my 'Encyclopedia of Human Experience.' The stories I hear help me expand my definition of what love is, what pain feels like, what sacrifice means, what laughter can do.
Sarah Kay
Love
Me
Love Is
Experience
People
Laughter
Sacrifice
Pain
Believe
Other
Definition
Feels
Like
Hear
Encyclopedia
Expand
Contribute
Human
Stories
Human Experience
Means
Help
On the question of comfort women, when my thought goes to these people, who have been victimized by human trafficking and gone through immeasurable pain and suffering beyond description, my heart aches. And on this point, my thought has not changed at all from previous prime ministers.
Shinzo Abe
Heart
Suffering
Trafficking
Women
People
Thought
Gone
Pain
Changed
Immeasurable
Ministers
Point
Previous
Through
Prime
Prime Ministers
Beyond
Comfort
Been
Question
Goes
Aches
Human
Victimized
Who
Description
I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.
Spalding Gray
Time
Good
Knowledge
School
Good Time
Shine
Pain
Think
Teenage
Teenage Years
Back
High
Would
High School
Girlfriend
About
Dating
Never
Had
Go
Years
Lot
Any
Going
Where
Fantasize
Now
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