suffering

"However terrible it is, the thing never involves any sadness"

"Now, we shall see the beginning of a great tragedy."

"Oof! McCullum kerplunks a fuller Sidebottom delivery for what looks a certain four until it smashes into Gillespie's, erm, mummy-daddy button at the non-striker's end and he is denied a run. That had …"

"It will be hard to fill the place of the painter ; it will be impossible to fill the place of the man."

"I cannot contribute anything to this world because I only have one method: agony."

"He makes his own paint and does not suffer from any erectile dysfunction or infection."

"Once you have suffered sufficiently, the idea of making up John and Jane and having them do things together seems utterly ridiculous…"

"I want to take all the sadness. Of the world from your shoulders. I want to take all the sadness. Of the world from your shoulders. I want to take all the sadness."

"Her sentences march under a harsh sun that bleaches color from them but bestows a peculiar, invigorating, Pascalian clarity."

"Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain."

"When I painted Frank O'Hara, Frank was standing there. First I painted the whole structure of his face; then I wiped out the face, and when the face was gone, it was more Frank than when the face was …"

"How fleeting the sorrows of youth, how slight the foundations on which the young build towers of despair"

"You positively paint like a madman."

"You make my ass hurt!"

"I'm proud to have been the first woman to have led the Liberal Democrats. I'm even more proud that I will not be the last. One of the realities of smashing glass ceilings is that a lot of broken glass…"

"Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black."

"Well, there is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is."

"If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations."

"Fussy eater" is a euphemism for "big pain in the ass."

"After a mile she complained about her feet and asked me to hold the wheel. As I did it she reached down and took off her shoes. Then she took the wheel again and threw one foot over the side of the Fo…"