Quotes About Pain

Bei Abwesenheit großer Leiden quälen uns die kleinsten Unannehmlichkeiten.

The world is just a hell and in it human beings are the tortured souls on the one hand, and the devils on the other

Si un Dios ha hecho ese mundo, yo no quisiera ser ese Dios. La miseria del mundo me desgarraría el corazón.

Querer es esencialmente sufrir, y como vivir es querer, toda vida es por esencia dolor.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

Her grief grieved her. His devastated her.

By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like old roses on a breeze.

Biology designed the dance. Terror timed it. Dictated the rhythm with which their bodies answered each other. As though they already knew that for each tremor of pleasure they would pay with an equal measure of pain. As though they knew that how far they went would be measured against how far they would be taken.

Need was a warehouse that could accommodate a considerable amount of cruelty.

Ammu, Chako said, his voice steady and deliberately casual, is it at all possible for you to prevent your washed-up cynicism from completely coloring everything? Silence filled the car like a saturated sponge. 'Washed-up' cut like a knife through a soft thing. The sun shone with a shuddering sigh. This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.

Silence hung in the air like secret loss.

And a strange, deadly war is raging around the world. Yet, each person who has lost a loved one surely knows secretly, deeply, that no war, no act of revenge, no daisy-cutters dropped on someone else's loved ones or someone else's children, will blunt the edges of their pain or bring their own loved ones back. War cannot avenge those who have died. War is only a brutal desecration of their memory.

Diclofenac, cow aspirin, given to cattle as a muscle relaxant, to ease pain and increase the production of milk, works—worked—like nerve gas on white-backed vultures. Each chemically relaxed, milk-producing cow or buffalo that died became poisoned vulture bait.

Il est capable de mettre au jour la douleur qui est au coeur du bonheur. (p.305)

Om bhur bhuvah svaha Tat savitur varenyam Bhargo devasya dhimahi Dhiyo yo nah pracodayat O God, thou art the giver of life, Remover of pain and sorrow, Bestower of happiness, O Creator of the Universe, May we receive thy supreme sin-destroying light, May thou guide our intellect in the right direction.

A dor dela própria a entristecia. A dele a devastava.

And she had learned from experience that Need was a warehouse that could accommodate a considerable amount of cruelty.

When his bouts of violence began to include the

Measurements of people's minute-by-minute levels of pleasure and pain miss this fundamental aspect of human existence. A seemingly happy life may be empty. A seemingly difficult life may be devoted to a great cause. We have purposes larger than ourselves. Unlike your experiencing self—which is absorbed in the moment—your remembering self is attempting to recognize not only the peaks of joy and valleys of misery but also how the story works out as a whole.

Pain is a symphony - a complex response that includes not just a distinct sensation but also motor activity, a change in emotion, a focusing of attention, a brand-new memory.

But death is not a subject that his doctors, friends, or family can countenance. That is what causes him his most profound pain.

We believe that having a longer duration of pain is worse than a shorter duration and that having a greater average level of pain is worse than having a lower average level. But this wasn't what the patients reported at all. Their final ratings largely ignored the duration of pain. Instead, the ratings were predicted by what Kahneman termed the "Peak-End rule": an average of the pain experienced at just two moments - the single worst moment of the procedure and the very end.

When the patient complained of pain, Goodman refused to admit that anything needed to be done.

Having already done more harm than the bullet had