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It is the little things that pierce and burn and prick for years to come.

— Algernon Blackwood

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I've had everything pierced at some point.

— Amy Winehouse

I don't want to pierce anything. I think it's outdated. Belly rings and all are, like, old.

— Britney Spears

I'll never have a tattoo - I just don't like them, and when you're old they can look a disaster. As for piercings, I don't like them on men.

— Rafael Nadal

The flesh is the surface of the unknown.

— Victor Hugo

'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.

— Michel de Montaigne

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.

— Harry Crews

It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

From a Darwinian perspective, it is clear what pain is doing. It's a warning: 'Don't do that again.' If you burn yourself, you're never going to pick up a live coal again.

— Richard Dawkins

I am too old for an eyebrow piercing but too young for an eyebrow lift.

— Max Cannon

✗Opposing Perspectives

When I was at Babbo, I was covered in scars and scabs and burned bits - melted hair, ribbed burns I got reaching across the top of a hot skillet... I sliced off the tip of my finger. I cleaved my forehead - a deep, ugly wound. Luckily, it regenerated.

— Bill Buford