Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
Those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death!
With God thoughts are colors, with us they are pigments-even the most abstract one may be accompanied by physical pain.
Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.
I will not have him in my brain;there is no room for anyone else in the cakeshop of agony. it's crowded enough in there already.
Dear God, May all the tears I cry, and all the tears I have not cried but hold within, pour forth into Your hands. Please take each painful thought and unhealed wound, and send angels here to me. I long for peace. Amen.
Thoughts can hurt like real pain.
Nothing is painful in and of itself. Pain is a result of wrong thought. It is an error in thinking.
Imaginary evils are incurable.
Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!