When people have lost their jobs or are afraid of losing their jobs in the future, they lash out. They want others to know about their fears, their pain.
A lot of people spend their last decade of their lives in pain and misery combating disease.
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
I have faith that God often uses our deepest pain as the launching pad of our greatest calling.
Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?
The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We've all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we've all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that's a gift - to you and your audience.
Life is hard. It is. And it's like, I don't want anybody feeling any pain.
Life is short. You have to be able to laugh at our pain or we never move on.
It is our interpretation of the past, our limiting beliefs, and our undigested pain that stop us from being able to move forward with clear direction.
It would be nice to finish Khabib via liver shots, wouldn't it? I just want to see him wincing in pain on the ground where he belongs.
If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.
Love always, in one way or another, means pain as well as joy.
I'm separated by other performers with whom I might be lumped, since what I say is so intensely personal. I'm anti-art and anti-poetry. As much as possible, I want to inflict my personal pain on the rest of society.
The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.
Pain is mandatory for all of us. It's what teaches us. Suffering is what's optional. That's what happens when we try to skip over the pain.
What I like about my character: Luke Cage is a person first and foremost. We do have other black superheroes, but he's important because he's touchable. Luke has moments when he has to try to forget his pain, but then, unlike the rest of us, he's also able to channel that frustration into fighting bad guys. Real martyrs aren't trying to be martyrs.
All of us have ways in which we mask and cover our pain.
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
The greatest evil is physical pain.
