#pain

He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#anger

How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception. ↗

— Alfred de Musset

#exception #glorious #how #painful

A ship is always referred to as "she" because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder. ↗

— Chester W. Nimitz

#because #costs #keep #much #paint

Italy and Spain really are not my countries. ↗

— Ruud van Nistelrooy

#italy #really #spain

In Spain and Italy I would not have a life among the fans. Everyone wants to touch you, own you and approach you. I try to be as kind as possible to all my fans, but in those countries I could not do it. There they ask too much from you. ↗

— Ruud van Nistelrooy

#approach #ask #could #countries #everyone

I think of painting without subject matter as music without words. ↗

— Kenneth Noland

#i think #matter #music #painting #subject

The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind. ↗

— Max Nordau

#burden #dances #feeling #his #idea

People in this room must have back problems, I'm sure some of us do, and it is really, really one of the worst pains and debilitating parts of your body that you can actually have because you really can't do anything in your life when you have it. ↗

— Greg Norman

#anything #back #because #body #debilitating

Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful. ↗

— Edmund H. North

#emotional #getting #luxury #much #painful

Ali had a break that was an inch and a half long, and you keep getting hit as hard and as much as I hit Ali, the pain would take over and you would pass out. ↗

— Ken Norton

#break #getting #had #half #hard