One pain is lessened by another's anguish.
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.
The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.
And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.
Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.
When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Everybody has their own problems. No matter how big you think yours are, there is someone else that has bigger problems or different problems.
The 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth.
The simple truth of things is that bad dreams are far better than bad wakings.
You leave the States, and you see people have bigger problems than you, much worse problems than you.
