Pain doesn’t respect age, my lady.
All pain is the same. Only the details are different.
If I told you the whole story it would never end...What's happened to me has happened to a thousand woman.
Beethoven's string quartets express pain itself; it is not MY pain.
Pain doesn't have a face and pain doesn't have a certain way of adjusting. Pain is universal.
Everyone is tortured. Do you know anyone who isn't?
Our problems and pain are universal and increasing, and the solutions to the problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.
My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers that everyone is carrying around with them. Think of your pain like a big bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one.
It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.
When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
Suffering does not discriminate.
Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in.
All human suffering concerns each human being.
A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering... The mission of the Jewish people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human.
We're like everybody else. We hurt like everybody.
There's only one thing that's certainAnd that's everybody, everybody's hurting
We have a song, 'Welcome to the Family' - we realized for the first time in our lives that people go through this every day around the world. There is someone very close to them that they're losing, every day. That song is, 'We know how you're feeling.'
...But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.
If pain were water, the world would drown
What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.
Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements.
I've been betrayed a lot of times in life. I think everybody's been.
We can all of us be hurt, and no one is exclusively safe from worry and sadness.
Why not me? Suffering, she understood, is, in fact, random, universal.
Mankind's suffering belongs to all men.
