Quotes About Pain

Well, you're right. I'm a Freak." "Huh?" "I love being bullied. Being hit and kicked by others gets me totally excited. That's what kind of freak I am. Sorry if that bothers you.

The big question facing humans isn't "what is the meaning of life?" but rather "how do we stop suffering?

the realest thing in the world is suffering.

We moderns have an arsenal of tranquillisers and painkillers at our disposal, but our expectations of ease and pleasure, and our intolerance of inconvenience and discomfort, have increased to such an extent that we may well suffer from pain more than our ancestors ever did.

the mind with the brain, but they are really very different things. The brain is a material network of neurons, synapses, and biochemicals. The mind is a flow of subjective experiences, such as pain, pleasure, anger, and love. Biologists assume that the brain somehow produces

Pain is pain, fear is fear, and love is love—even in the matrix.

Puede sufrir en verdad una nación? ¿Tiene una nación ojos, manos, sentidos, afectos y pasiones? Si se la pincha, ¿sangrará? Claro que no. Si es vencida en la guerra, pierde una provincia o incluso renuncia a su independencia, pero no puede experimentar dolor, tristeza ni ningún otro tipo de desgracia porque no tiene cuerpo, ni mente, ni ningún tipo de sentimiento. Lo cierto es que se trata solamente de una metáfora.

Even plants and animals were mechanised. Around the time that Homo sapiens was elevated to divine status by humanist religions, farm animals stopped being viewed as living creatures that could feel pain and distress, and instead came to be treated as machines.

John Stuart Mill, explained that happiness is nothing but pleasure and freedom from pain, and that beyond pleasure and pain there is no good and no evil. Anyone who tries to deduce good and evil from something else (such as the word of God, or the national interest) is fooling you, and perhaps fooling himself too.

Time is as necessary for remembering as it is for forgetting. Even the smallest embrace of pain needs time larger than a pause; the greatest pause requires an eternity, the greatest hurt a lifetime. A lifetime is longer than eternity: an eternity can exist without human presence.

If only everything hurt as little as a blow to the face.

Like most addictions, sex is used to take away pain or to temporarily ignore it. If you are not in control of your life, but your life is controlled by your sexual urges, then you need to seek help.

Even the most heartening of philosophical vistas is no match for, say, a toothache, if it happens to be your own.

El daño que le hizo pertenece a su vida anterior y, aunque ahora se echara a sus brazos o se arrodillara ante ella pidiéndole perdón y piedad, ya no habría cómo reparar lo sucedido. [...] y bien hará ella en no permitir que ese dolor nuevo y viejo la guíe hasta él, porque curarla ya no va a poder hacerlo, y volverla a enfermar, no se lo piensa permitir.

They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad.

I don't care if it hurts, I'm tired of lies and all these games, I've reached a point in life, and no longer can I be this way, don't come crying to me, I too have shed my share of tears. I'm moving on, yes I'm grooving on.

But now and then, beneath the outer numbness, something stirred, like a living pain waiting for the anesthetic to wear away.

permití que el ostracismo y la amargura se adueñaran de mi existencia.

It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.

They will become afraid to the point of harming people after they've been hurt, even people who try to help them.

The hurt affects your ability to move forward. And words. All the words between us. Words can be permanent. Certain ones are impossible to forgive.

Goddamn it, Harry. You can't go falling for someone right in front of me after I got my heart broken. It's just plain rude.

Drugs aren't always about feeling good. Many times they're about feeling less.

For those times when I wanted to blank out parts of my life or when I was dealing with some depression, there was nothing better than heroin. Nothing.