Quotes About Pain

Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.

since to avoid the painful and aim at the pleasurable is one of the most obvious tendencies of human nature.

To die to escape from poverty or love or anything painful is not the mark of a brave man, but rather of a cowrd; for it is softness to fly from what is troublesome, and such a man endures death not because it is noble but to fly from evil

Moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.

The self-indulgent man, then, craves for all pleasant things or those that are most pleasant . . . Hence he is pained both when he fails to get them and when he is craving for them, for appetite involves pain.

But to die to escape from poverty or love or anything painful is not the mark of a brave man, but rather of a coward;

For the laughable is a sort of error and ugliness that is not painful and destructive, just as, evidently, a laughable mask is something ugly and distorted without pain.

If the pleasure is immediate and the pain distant, or if the profit is immediate and the punishment distant. This is the kind of thing that moves weak-willed people, and there is no human impulse that is not liable to moral weakness.

there is no gain in being persuaded not to be hot or in pain or hungry or the like, since we shall experience these feelings none the less.

And retaliation too is pleasant, because if failing at it is painful, succeeding at it is pleasant.

For moral excellence is concerned with pleasures and pains; it is on account of pleasure that we do bad things, and on account of pain that we abstain from noble ones. Hence we ought to have been brought up in a particular way from our very youth, as Plato says, so as both to delight in and to be pained by the things that we ought; for this is the right education.

Again, men of the melancholic temperament constantly need some remedial process (because the body, from its temperament, is constantly being worried), and they are in a chronic state of violent desire. But Pleasure drives out Pain; not only such Pleasure as is directly contrary to Pain but even any Pleasure provided it be strong: and this is how men come to be utterly destitute of Self-Mastery, i.e. low and bad.

Naarmate de stilte langer duurde, nam de pijn toe. De tijd heelt niet alle wonden, ontdekte hij, de tijd scheurt wonden open, zorgt voor vergiftigingen en ontstekingen. De dood maakt misschien een einde aan alle pijn, de tijd laat dat na.

I consider dying a very important part of life. I feel good in the sense that since these people are in pain, and most of them don't have very long to live, I can make their journey easier.

Diga-me, você gostaria de ir para a Terra? Seus olhos arregalaram-se de espanto e ela negou resolutamente, sacudindo a cabeça. — É um lugar ruim. A gente se machuca quando cai.

Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror, glaring helplessly at the frightful thing which was hunting him down. But that cry of pain from the hound had blown all our fears to the winds. If he was vulnerable he was mortal, and if we could wound him we could kill him. Never have I seen a man run as Holmes ran that night.

my orderly, who threw me across a pack-horse, and succeeded in bringing me safely to the British lines. Worn with pain, and weak from the prolonged hardships

shattered the bone and grazed the subclavian artery. I

Nunca verás los momentos por venir, que mutilarán para siempre tu vida al menos no hasta después que te hayan rasgado.

There are some pains that run very deeply, as so that the strongest one accept them without being broken.

No es el dolor que nos infligen el que nos destruye. Es el dolor que dejamos dentro de nuestros corazones el que lo hace.

You need to calm down and remember that everyone grieves differently. Doesn't mean they don't care. You don't judge people in pain, and you damn sure don't lash out at them when they've lost what Syn has!

La última vez que había cometido ese error con una mujer le había costado el alma.

Seth envied them that freedom as his naked body hung lankly from the ceiling, with his hands shackled over his head. He'd been in this position for so long that his wrist bones protruded through the open cuts the manacles had worn through his flesh. He was sure it had to hurt, but that pain blended in nicely with all the others so that he couldn't tell where one ache began and another throb ended. Who knew torture could have benefits?