"Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say â€œMy tooth is achingâ€ than to say â€œMy heart is broken."

-- C. S. Lewis

#Depression Quotes #Pain Quotes #Heart Quotes

“The happiness of others is never bearable for very long ...”
“A failed structure provides a counterexample to a hypothesis and shows us incontrovertibly what cannot be done, while a structure that stands without incident often conceals whatever lessons or caveats it might hold for the next generation of engineers.”
“As for the petty little world of journalism, the media demonstrates how it, more than anyone, is careful to traffic only in authorized ideas and wares; while at the same time it fosters, through its antics, the illusion of a free circulation of ideas and opinions - not unlike jesters in a tyrant's court.”
“I don't express myself in my paintings. I express my not-self.”
“From the outside, people think it's drug-related. But wherever you come from, people are driven by a sense of belonging. What I say to kids all the time is you don't own streets. We don't own the paving stones we are fighting over. Instead of fighting each other, you should be fighting the government to make this a better place to live.”

Source : "Damilola's dad Richard Taylor and ex-bad boy rapper Ashley Walters face-to-face". Interview with Richard Taylor, www.mirror.co.uk. March 31, 2008.
“What great comedians, great comic writers, great comic actors do is that they just read the headlines with the right eyebrow position and it's funny.”
“The town is an advertisement for itself; none of its charms are left to the visitor's imagination.”

Source : Christopher Isherwood (1949). “The Condor and the Cows: A South American Travel-diary”
“When a man has reached a condition in which he believes that a thing must happen because he does not wish it, and that what he wishes to happen never will be, this is really the state called desperation.”

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