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I actually see a lot of the pain and destruction, like Black Lives Matter, in the long-term as positive because it shows that we're moving forward; we're evolving and moving and challenging the frontiers.

I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.

When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

Look, pain is there in the world, and there's catharsis through that. I feel like there's... a rapture, if we can get through it, if we can confront things.

There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.

You can only exist as far as your mind will allow you to exist, and I think chronic pain will stop time dead in its tracks. You feel like you're the only one, and how unfair it is, and a million different feel-sorry-for-yourself type feelings.

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.