Common Pain Quotes

Pain doesn't have a face and pain doesn't have a certain way of adjusting. Pain is universal.

I want somebody to hear my song and say, 'You know, man, I've been through that.'

There's only one thing that's certainAnd that's everybody, everybody's hurting

I try to write about the stuff that torments us all.

Despair is despair, sorrow is sorrow, death is death. It's not about who is experiencing it; it's about building a bridge of empathy across these experiences.

We are not alone in our loneliness, others have been here and known griefs we thought our special own.

It easeth some, though none it ever cured, to think their dolour others have endured.

The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things.

Politics separate men by bringing them together only superficially. Art and culture unite us in a common anguish that is our only possible fraternity, that of our existential and metaphysical community.

You cry the first tear because something is genuinely, singularly upsetting. And you cry the second tear because everybody is crying that first tear with you, and you know that.

I found that people want stories that are not too dissimilar from theirs. People want to be reminded that, let's say, struggle in your family is being felt by other people, that you're not alone.