“Even in Death they had a thing in common, Pain.”

“People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend”

“People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has man invented that even approaches in cruelty to some of the commoner diseases? "Natural" death, almost by definition, means something slow, smelly and painful.”

“For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.”

“He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.”

“Every human being on earth has two things in common. Death and a broken heart.”

“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 absence of pain means death, so when something no longer bothers you, you've died to that thing.”

“Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.”

“All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”