“Ironically, the same scientific disciplines which shape our milk machines and egg machines have lately demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that mammals and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Her immediate, instinctive response was to distract herself with physical pain. She wanted to go to the kitchen and get a knife… — Tami Hoag Copy Share Image
“How can a man understand a woman who is expecting a child. He can't get pregnant. Is that an advantage or a… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
“Human emotions are our devils," Cheveyo said. "They tease us with things we can't have, torture us with feelings we can't act… — Jaime Rush Copy Share Image
“I had always been a very physically active person. And I loved my job. I got into the military because of September… — Noah Galloway Copy Share Image
When you are enlightened, your physical body will still feel pain if you get hurt, but you will not be overwhelmed even… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Self-harm is no joke. you always hear how self-harmers are *emo* or an *attetion seeker* but self-harm isnt a joke, it takes… — Patience Copy Share Image
Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors… — Alice James Copy Share Image
“Problem is, though, sooner or later, physical pain, it's... it's manageable. See, real pain is emotional pain. That is the kind of… — Theo Raeken Copy Share Image
“What I wanted was a simple response. I didn’t want to feel, that was too difficult. I wanted to hurt, I wanted… — Victoria Leatham Copy Share Image
Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“Whatever pain achieves, it achieves in part through its unsharability, and it ensures this unsharability through its resistance to language. “English,” writes… — Elaine Scarry Copy Share Image
“Is it possible to be happy before anything happens, before one’s desires are gratified, in spite of life’s difficulties, in the very… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
When ignored by someone whose attention means the most to you,the reaction in the brain is similar to physical pain. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
