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“I don't know. I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book Mirror Dance

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Mirror Dance (1994)

“We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if we are to have any happiness at all, it is only in the passing instant.”

Charles Frazier (1950) American writer

“Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance, how well you are advised to not complain of the pain and labor of learning.”

Christine de Pizan book The Treasure of the City of Ladies

Source: The Treasure of the City of Ladies

“Then when I saw Pain attack Hinata, I was so mad, so full of rage, I let the Nine-Tails take over without even thinking about it.”

Masashi Kishimoto (1974) Japanese manga artist

“Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more.”

Michel Houellebecq (1956) writer

Source: H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life

“But by and by, the cause of my disease
Gives me a pang, that inwardly doth sting,
When that I think what grief it is again
To live and lack the thing should rid my pain.”

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1516–1547) English Earl

"A Complaint by Night of the Lover Not Beloved", line 11.

“I hope that when he smiles at me
He does not guess my joy and pain,
For if he did, he is too kind
To ever look my way again.”

Sara Teasdale (1884–1933) American writer and poet

"Young Love"
Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911)

“Don't count on me
I engineer on every
Move we make from here
I'll take the lead
You take the pain
You see, I engineered
This game.”

Holly Knight American singer-songwriter and musician

"I Engineer"

“For me acting, comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don't act at all. I think that to feel the character's pain I have to be myself. Somewhere audiences see that.”

Salman Khan (1965) Indian film actor

Quotes By Salman

“So if I could employ
A little magic that will finally destroy
This dream that pains me and enchains me
But I can't because I'm mad…
I'm mad about the boy”

Noel Coward (1899–1973) English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer

Mad About the Boy (1932)

“Now no joy but lacks salt,
That is not dashed with pain
And weariness and fault;
I crave the stain

Of tears, the aftermark
Of almost too much love,
The sweet of bitter bark
And burning clove.”

Robert Frost To Earthward

"To Earthward" (1923), st. 5,6
General sources

“We're strange allies,
With warring hearts.
What wild-eyed beast you be?
The Space Between
The wicked lies we tell
And hope to keep us safe from the pain.”

Dave Matthews (1967) American singer-songwriter, musician and actor

The Space Between
Everyday (2001)

“I am extremely pained by the methodology adopted by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India in coming to some figures which have no basis whatsoever. Their exercise was fraught with very serious errors.”

Kapil Sibal (1948) Indian lawyer and politician

On the claims of loss of revenue during the allocation of 2G spectrum, as quoted in Kapil Sibal trashes CAG math on Rs 1.76 lakh-cr 2G loss http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-01-08/news/28432219_1_telecom-minister-kapil-sibal-national-auditor-cag-report, The Economic Times (8 January 2011)

“Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.”

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926–2004) American psychiatrist

On Death and Dying (1969)