Some people may long for an era when divorce was still hard to come by. The spread of no-fault divorce has reduced the bargaining power of whichever spouse is more interested in continuing the relationship. And the breakup of such marriages has caused pain for many families.
Stephanie Coontz
RelationshipPowerPainPeopleLong
I always say to people that Zimbabweans are the funniest people in Africa; we even laugh at funerals. And it's true. I mean, there are so many jokes about funerals. There are so many jokes about AIDS. We find ways of coping with pain by laughing at it and by laughing at ourselves.
Petina Gappah
PainPeopleLaughFindSayTrue
Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
Aldous Huxley
PainLaughterHumanOverPleasure
I want 'Flesh Of My Flesh' to be like my connection to the community, I want to say what's on my peoples' minds, soak up all their pain. I've learned that when I take it all in, I can make one brotha's pain be understood by the world.
DMX
CommunityPainWorldConnectionWant
Most of us need time to work through pain and loss. We can find all manner of reasons for postponing forgiveness. One of these reasons is waiting for the wrongdoers to repent before we forgive them. Yet such a delay causes us to forfeit the peace and happiness that could be ours.
James E. Faust
WorkHappinessForgivenessTimePain
Do not suffer pain and torment without reason. Somebody All-Powerful and All-Compassionate owns everything. Rely on His Power and do not accuse His Compassion. Renounce grief and anxiety ad accept relief. Be rid of your troubles and find serenity.
Said Nursi
PowerGriefCompassionPainSerenity
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
Sophocles
LifeLovePainOne WordUsWeight
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
Pearl S. Buck
AgePainFeelJudgeYouNew
I don't feel there's any kind of pain in my life.
Wes Borland
LifePainFeelMy LifeKindAny
I make my guitar scream with pain or pleasure or sensuality. It makes people move their feet and shake their bodies. That's what music does.
Dick Dale
MusicPainPeopleFeetGuitarMove
Joy always came after pain.
Guillaume Apollinaire
PainJoyAlwaysAfterCame
I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
Patricia McCormick
LightExperiencePainShineBookGo
Giving voice to marginalised characters is extremely important to me. I want to explore the pain of disenfranchisement, the social strata and boundaries we create and how to make them more permeable.
Sue Monk Kidd
PainMeVoiceGivingCreateWant
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich
AloneLonelinessPainBeing Alone
With Pablo, I lose my reason, and with me, he loses his head; and then all that's left is a man pursued by justice and a woman pursued by the media who know and take care of and need each other, despite the pain caused by all the absences, all his crimes and her sins.
Virginia Vallejo
JusticeWomanManPainMeCare
Black people have always been more than our pain. The joy is so much a part of how we have survived and thrived.
DeRay Mckesson
PainJoyPeopleBlackMoreAlways
I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer.
Hugh Leonard
WifePainPersonOutLevelFound
There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
Rachel Field
PainThoughtRealityFastLeftHeld
I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.
Sting
WorkBestPainI AmBest WorkAm
In our own lives and in our communities, we need to find a way to include others rather than exclude them. We need to find a way to allow our pain and suffering, individually and collectively.
Sharon Salzberg
PainSufferingFindWayOthersNeed
I can't run anymore. That's the one thing I loved doing. And I can't play golf hardly at all because of wrist and back pain.
Terry Bradshaw
PainLovedGolfDoingBackPlay
When you work and earn money as a child, you need to be confident, but it can make you a bit precocious, and I think I was a bit of a pain for a while when I was young.
Donna Air
WorkMoneyPainChildThinkYou
You're always going to survive the pain of loss. I can live with that confidence inside of me.
Hope Solo
ConfidenceLivePainMeSurviveYou
How can our hearts not break? How can we hold our tears? How can we bear the pain of losing those loving children and their guardians, who were slain in Newtown, Conn.? Why can't we face the reality of our times and restrict deranged people from having these destructive powers?
Radhanath Swami
ChildrenPainLosingPeopleTears
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