Physical Pain Quotes

69 quotes by 64 authors

Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons. — Lance Armstrong
The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine
Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we were… — Spencer W. Kimball
The fellowship of those who bear the mark of pain: who are the members of this Fellowship? Those who have learnt by experience what physical… — Albert Schweitzer
There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain. — Karl Marx
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 with the truth.… — Anthony de Mello
I find it difficult to feel responsible for the suffering of others. That's why I find war so hard to bear. It's the same with… — Alice Walker
The very same brain centers that interpret and feel physical pain also become activated during experiences of emotional rejection. In brain scans, they light up… — Gabor Mate
I sense that, without sensitivity to physical pain and pleasure, man would not have known self-interest, and consequently know just or unjust acts. Thus, physical… — Jonathan Balcombe
An adept of Kriya Yoga conquers death by taking the soul beyond identification with the physical body, consciously and at will; and then returning to… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that becomes chronic, it… — Andrew Solomon
Gore said foreigners are not worried about 'what the terrorist networks are going to do, but about what we're going to do.' Good. They should… — Ann Coulter
In the central cases of physical pain, then, it appears that at least part of what is bad about our condition is the way it… — L. W. Sumner
An enemy always represents a weakness. This might be fear of physical pain, but it could also be a premature sense of victory or the… — Paulo Coelho
There is no physical pain, no spiritual wound, no anguish of soul or heartache, no infirmity or weakness you or I ever confront in mortality… — David A. Bednar
Physical pain is not a simple affair of an impulse, travelling at a fixed rate along a nerve. It is the resultant of a conflict… — Rene Leriche
Man has created some lovely dwellings, some soul-stirring literature. He has done much to alleviate physical pain. But he has not ... created a substitute… — Harvey Broome
Poetry has its uses for despair. It can carve a shape in which a pain can seem to be; it can give oneâ€™s loss a… — Christian Wiman
Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and… — Victoria Abril
As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make of physical pain,… — Clifford Geertz

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