“it takes pain to ease pain”
“Shopping eased the pain. -Hailey, Retail Therapy”
“Nothing can ease pain like a human touch .”
“Philanthropy is. . . greatly overrated. A pain in the gut is not sympathy for the underprivileged, but the result of eating a green apple; the philanthropist gives to ease his own pain.”
“The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.”
“Exactly! We run or we lose ourselves in something, somebody, anything to try and ease our pain.”