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"God picks up the reed-flute world and blows. Each note is a need coming through one of us, a passion, a longing pain. Remember the lips where the wind-breath originated, and let your note be clear. Don't try to end it. Be your note."
"Sometimes I see the world for how f-ked up it really is. I tell myself I'll be the one to make a change in it. I could die tonight; not make it to the sunrise, then I couldn't hear the pain in it."
"We wake up and are grateful for the day. Not taking away from the pain, because the pain will be there. But you live on."
"Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!"
"We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments."
"My purpose is far greater than my pain"
"No clouds gathered in the skies and the polluted streams became clear, whilst celestial music rang through the air and the angels rejoiced with gladness. With no selfish or partial joy but for the sake of the law they rejoiced, for creation engulfed in the ocean of pain was now to obtain release."
"Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth."
"Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course."
"You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass."
"The pain will not go away by getting angry or bitter, it will go away when you learn to accept life's challenges with grace and ease"
"It was closer to manual labor than shooting a film. I always think of something Michael Caton-Jones told me: 'Pain is temporary. Film is forever.'"
"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."
"The truly great writer does not want to write: he wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life of the imagination. The first quivering word he puts to paper is the word of the wounded angel: pain."
"Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them the easy prey - and that is what all who suffer are - is enchanting."
"Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success."
"What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure."
"I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain."
"When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness. I'm trying for that. But I'm also trying for the language. I'm trying to see how it can really sound."
"You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language."
