suffering

"Going through the pain barrier, that's what makes the muscles grow. There's this pain, this aching, and going on and on and on. That's what divides a champion from a non-champion - having the guts to …"

"Nome in codice: Broken Arrow"

"If I am lucky, the picture will paint itself"

"A fiancé is neither this nor that: he’s left one shore, but not yet reached the other."

"There's no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were."

"I'm going to get you a broken alarm clock so you'll get up in the morning."

"Boxing has become America’s tragic theater."

"Any attempt to escape the negative, to avoid it or quash it or silence it, only backfires. The avoidance of suffering is a form of suffering. The avoidance of struggle is a struggle. The denial of fai…"

"It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish."

"They lived in abysmal misery, yet they had no prospect of a better tomorrow. They existed under capitalism, yet there was no accumulation of capital."

"Poetical spaces too can be painted like a vase."

"Let 'em get in close. Don’t waste ammo. Get your share! Remember, you don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em."

"A slight throbbing about the temples told me that this discussion had reached saturation point."

"A ship is always referred to as "she" because it costs so much to keep her in paint and powder."

"Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, — though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, — the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!"

"She ordered a cup of tea, which proved excessively bad, and this gave her a sense that she was suffering in a romantic cause."

"Parking is such street sorrow."

"The Congo and Other Poems by Vachel Lindsay"

"It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable."

"When I lump all my sins together and confess them en masse, I neglect to feel the pain or embarrassment or shame that should be elicited in me."