“the media, at least in the U.S., tends to focus on pain pill use, abuse, and addiction by people who do not… — Anna Hamilton Copy Share Image
“We're the sons appalled by violence, with no capacity for inflicting physical pain, useless at beating and clubbing, unfit to pulverize even… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“She promised new, tantalizing diversions. She whispered words of raw, intense pleasure the likes of which he’d never experienced. He was intrigued.… — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
Could you stop my heart? It's always beating. Sinking like a weight. I don't think I am okay. No not today .… — Kaile Stewart Copy Share Image
“and afterward, after it was done, it was too much, and I felt like I was going to... I don't know… explode,… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“The addict’s reliance on the drug to reawaken her dulled feelings is no adolescent caprice. The dullness is itself a consequence of… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“The men would all say that they had died,' Gilligan said. 'These were the most incorrigibly violent characters. They would all say… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“Martin will recall this night as the first time--and one of the only times--he ever saw Germans crying in public, not at… — Jessica Shattuck Copy Share Image
“Some empathy must be learned and then imagined, by perceiving the suffering of others and translating it into one's own experience of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
An adept of Kriya Yoga conquers death by taking the soul beyond identification with the physical body, consciously and at will; and… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“He can remember that all beauty in animals and plants is a silent, enduring form of love and longing, and he can… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Let me put it this way: You cannot live in the world without being in pain, spiritual and physical pain. We have… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“What can you say about pain? Words can trace only the shadow of the thing itself. The reality of hard, sharp physical… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren't looking for them. Columbus and America. Pinzón who stumbled on Brazil while… — Morgan Matson Copy Share Image
“Thank God for pain. Most of life's blessings, in my experience, are potential curses. And vice versa. So it is with physical… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But the punishment-body relation is not the same as it was in the torture during public executions. The body now serves as… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Suddenly Damask found herself staring down at the flowers through a dazzle of tears. The words sounded so innocent and so disarming… — Norah Lofts Copy Share Image
“Now, I'm not going to deny that I was aware of your beauty. But the point is, this has nothing to do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the central cases of physical pain, then, it appears that at least part of what is bad about our condition is… — L. W. Sumner Copy Share Image
The other exception to the rule regards dealings with masochists. A masochist derives pleasure from being hurt; so denying the masochist his… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
“He can hit a man in the liver so the blood flow stops. It takes a full second before the pain registers… — Adam Berlin Copy Share Image
“Before taking the discipline for the first time, Brother Martin spent considerable time in prayer. Then he lashed himself with an iron… — J.C. Kearns Copy Share Image
“It is a level of psychic pain wholly incompatible with human life as we know it. It is a sense of radical… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“When we feel dread, when we feel discomfort of any kind, it can connect us at the heart with all the other… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Humor is a developed sense, stemming basically from cruelty. The more primitive a mind, the less selectivity exists. … A man slips… — Lewis Padgett Copy Share Image
“What is it, she asks me, why do people cry? Why do we cry when we're happy and when we're sad or… — Liza Wieland Copy Share Image
Do you want a sign that you're asleep? Here it is: you're suffering. Suffering is a sign that you're out of touch… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“in adults the anterior cingulate cortex activates when they see someone hurt. Ditto for the amygdala and insula, especially in instances of… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
