#pain

A painting is more than the sum of the parts,” he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is just grass and flowers, and the sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of light, but put them all together and you’ve got magic. ↗

— Wendelin Van Draanen

#painting

Tessa distinguished absolutely between pain observed and pain shared. Pain observed is journalistic pain. It’s diplomatic pain. It’s television pain, over as soon as you switch off your beastly set. Those who watch suffering and do nothing about it, in her book, were little better than those who inflicted it. They were the bad Samaritans. ↗

— John le Carré

#suffering #journalist

Pain was a fascinating horror ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#horror

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#love #pain #philosophical #equality

Lydia: Strange how you always remember the pain someone gave you, but seldom the hurt you caused them. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#dream-hunter #guardian #lydia #pain #dreams

Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths. ↗

— Criss Jami

#concealment #confusion #contemplation #dishonesty #hardcore

Hunger of choice is a painful luxury; hunger of necessity is terrifying torture. ↗

— Mike Mullin

#pain #torture

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate. ↗

— Sophocles

#fate #pain #fate

Justice is about making them pay for [her] pain. Revenge is making them pay for yours. ↗

— Erica O'Rourke

#pain #revenge #revenge

Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes. ↗

— George Orwell

#physics