Famous Quotes: Pain

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
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Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
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There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear.
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Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
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A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
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Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
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There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time.
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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
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Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.
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Everybody is entertained to death.
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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
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Catharsis isn't art. You can't rely on catharsis to get a laugh. Because guess what? People do laugh when something's shocking, but that is, to me, the absolute fakest of laughs. That's not something that sustains a television series, or a movie, or even 45 minutes of a stand-up set at Carolines.
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Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.
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A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
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The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
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Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.
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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
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When I'm on stage, it's a little world I've created where I'm sort of the thing, so I have total control over everything that happens. When we're improvising, I'm with someone I totally trust. I know things are going to work out. I don't have those guarantees in life. There are no consequences on stage.
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.
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