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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

Oscar Wilde

Beauty

I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'

Olivia Wilde

Now

Pain

Directors say that you should get actors before they are recognized. They will be a pain or have an opinion.

You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford.That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this.

One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.

The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.

I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

I feel that the thing that probably aided me the most in that scene with the dog was the utilization and using an actual recreation, affective memory, if you want to call it, of pain.

For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.