“I double-knot my shoe laces. It's a pain untying your shoes afterward-particularly if you get them wet-but so is stopping in the middle of a race to tie them.” IfsPainRaceMiddleShoesTiesWetStoppingKnotsLace Author:Hal Higdon
“Man's feeble race what ills await! Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain, Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train, And Death, sad refuge from the storms of Fate!” MenLifePainRaceFateSorrowDiseaseTrainStormLabourRefugeWeepingRacks Book:The works of Thomas Gray (ed. by J. Mitford). Source: The works of Thomas Gray (ed. by J. Mitford).
“Fortunately for the human race, pain, however piercing, is not a lasting emotion. The recollection of happiness lingers, but the consciousness never retains for long the first thrust of tragic loss. The details of daily life crowd in upon the mind.” MindFirstsHumansLongPainLossRaceEmotionConsciousnessDetailsCrowdsHuman RaceTragicDaily LifeLastingThrustRecollectionPiercingsTragic Loss Author:Wallis Simpson