Belly Quote by Zadie Smith

Not everybody relates to pain, but if you can watch other people playacting it, you can absorb some of that vibe. It's like watching…

— John Darnielle

Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment.

— Anonymous

For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is…

— Honore de Balzac

As with anything that involves emotional pain, comedy isn't too far behind. There's that element of no matter how painful something is - as…

— Ben Miller

To abstain from the enjoyment which is in our power, or to seek distant rather than immediate results, are among the most painful exertions…

— N.W. Senior

There is a particular kind of pain which gives us pleasure.

— Agnibin Banerjee

Comedy is often about pain.

— Eric Andre

Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.

— Mason Cooley

“Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it…

— E.M. Forster

I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

— Aldous Huxley

I call it suffering and pain, they call it entertainment.

— Ray Davies

“Pain is a crucial part of our reality; it awakens a person from a mental stupor. A person must never be afraid to discover…

— Kilroy J. Oldster