We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real.
No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.
My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.
Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches
The modern parallel in discrimination is “only the victims of discrimination can really know how bad it is.”
All ballet galas are unbearable, but they're unbearable in different ways.
All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.