most painful artist

 

working theory

"You cannot succeed out of pain."
- Bruce Springsteen [born 1949]

on suffering

“That which hurts, also instructs.”
― Benjamin Franklin [1706-1790]

dystopians

In "1984" people are controlled by inflicting pain. In "Brave New World" people are controlled by inflicting pleasure. Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we desire will ruin us.

father of history

“Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.”
― Herodotus

Man in ultimate pain

Laocoön

on babying millennials

"Everybody's picture can't go on the refrigerator."
- Deon Cole, who rejects 4th place prizes

on pain

[Lawrence has just extinguished a match between his thumb and forefinger. William Potter surreptitiously attempts the same.]

William Potter: Ooh! It damn well 'urts!

T.E. Lawrence: Certainly it hurts.

Officer: What's the trick then?

T.E. Lawrence: The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts.

"My pain is your entertainment."
- Jay Z

"(In life) there is no such thing as pleasure, only relief of pain."
- Georges St-Pierre

"Pain is the only thing that will make an individual change."
- Rob Smith, Workforce Manager

"My pain is your entertainment."
- Jay Z

"Pain is the only thing that makes people change."
- Rob Smith, Workforce Manager, San Diego

cortisone

"Soon the pain felt wonderful, almost sweet, because it was the kind that you can tell precedes relief. But maybe all pain is like that."
- Andre Agassi in Open, p. 5

John Keats

"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"

"I have left no immortal work behind me--nothing to make my friends proud of my memory--but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered."

- John Keats [1795 - 1821]