Alarms Quote by David Foster Wallace

I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.

— Rita Mae Brown

Pain is the fuel that lights the flame of our enlightenment

— Eckhart Tolle

Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.

— Ivan Illich

Why are we, the most medicalized of societies, a culture in pain?

— Marni Jackson

People want to get rid of pain, not the cause of the pain itself.

— Ruben Papian

From a Darwinian perspective, it is clear what pain is doing. It's a warning: 'Don't do that again.' If you burn yourself, you're never…

— Richard Dawkins

In every culture, [there are those] shamans or medicine men who endured incredible physical pain, because it's a door opening to the subconsciousness. And…

— Marina Abramovic

Naturally, the human being wants to forget pain.

— Elie Wiesel

The only way to defeat pain is to recognize pain exists.

— Ray Lewis

Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message.

— James Patterson

“Avoiding our pain is needlessly exhausting. Pain can not be killed. When we attempt to bury our pain, it rises up from the grave…

— Jaeda DeWalt

The hurts we hold on to are like dams that block the free flow of our energy. We can only suppress, mask, or numb…

— Anonymous