Mind and body Quote by Graham Greene

“…as though, capable themselves of suffering, they granted no reality to the suffering of others. ‘The subject exhibited a pain response.’ But not, under…

— John Brunner

“People in pain can be very self-destructive. And sometimes they pull in the people who are close to them, often without realizing.”

— Sara Barnard

“People that hurt others, only act on a pain they feel themselves.”

— Vivian Amis

“When one had once suffered a great hurt, there was always a weakness afterward, a vulnerability where there had been wholeness and strength before…

— Mary Balogh

“Sometimes, all you need is permission to feel. Sometimes, what causes the most pain is actually the attempt to resist feeling, or the shame…

— Olivia Laing

“we all have more than our share of pains and sorrow. Embarrassments and things that haunt us. From that, no one is ever immune,…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“These days, we take pride in being tough enough to inflict pain on others.”

— Tony Judt

“Pain might escalate upward and, just when you thought you'd reached your limit, begin to spread sideways, and spill out, and touch other people,…

— Kristin Cashore

“Pain and humiliation is always amusing when it happens to someone else.”

— Eileen Cook

“... when people want to hurt someone very much, they often reach for the thing that would hurt themselves most deeply.”

— K.J. Charles

“For it is discomfort's own essence to be near a man and to feel him in torture of misery, to feel with him the…

— Richard Llewellyn

“Physical pain delivers a man from the sin of the fleshy soul.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita