Benevolence Quote by George Meredith

The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure…

— C. S. Lewis

I always had the desire to inflict pain on others and to have others inflict pain on me. I always seemed to enjoy everything…

— Albert Fish

“Self-inflicted pain has a calming effect; it clears the head, diminishes one's fascination with the ego, and most important, gives one the sense of…

— Valerie Martin

“consider how much more pain is brought on us by the anger and vexation caused by such acts than by the acts themselves, at…

— Marcus Aurelius

When pain has been constant, it has its own momentum and laws. The vital thing is to break its ascendancy over the mind.

— Suzanne Massie

“Suffering can thus be seen in large part as a kind of resistance or reactivity to the pain of the present moment. (p. 74)”

— Donald Rothberg

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling…

— Tertullian

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

— Anne Carson

In the beginning, passion and pain were not created together with the body; nor forgetfulness and ignorance together with the soul; nor the ever-changing…

— Maximus the Confessor

Orders can be benign or malign, but the habit of obeying them can become ingrained.

— Theodore Dalrymple

Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself.

— Joanne Harris

Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.

— William Makepeace Thackeray