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“Sorrow like a ceaseless rain Beats upon my heart. People twist and scream in pain-- Dawn will find them still again; This has neither wax nor wane, Neither stop nor start.”

People Heart Stills Pain My Heart Sorrow Beats Rain Dawn Scream Twists

Book:The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection

Source: The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection

“Aquatic animals suffer from the disadvantage that they cannot scream when in pain, so we find it hard to gauge the degree of their agony. If fish could scream, angling purely for sport would be outlawed without delay.”

Ifs Hard Would Be Pain Suffering Sports Animal Sea Degrees Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Scream Agony Delay Disadvantages Gauges Angling

Author:Desmond Morris

“No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.”

People World Matter Pain Unity Terror Cruelty Scream

Book:The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way

Source: The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way

“At this very moment,... the most frightful horrors are taking place in every corner of the world. People are being crushed, slashed, disembowelled, mangled; their dead bodies rot and their eyes decay with the rest. Screams of pain and fear go pulsing through the air at the rate of eleven hundred feet per second. After travelling for three seconds they are perfectly inaudible. These are distressing facts; but do we enjoy life any the less because of them? Most certainly we do not.”

“I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.”

Feels Ends Bigs Pain Used Found White Five Band Jokes Heavy Broke Scream Metals Folds Gigs Heavy Metal Rant Falsetto

Author:Ben Folds

“I didn't really understand that Vipassana is a relatively new form of Buddhism that was based on the storage of pain. So the idea is that every time you don't scream, that's your Buddhist side.”

Ideas Pain Form Sides Buddhism Buddhist Scream Storage Vipassana

Author:Laurie Anderson