Long ago Quote by Ian McEwan Download Open image ““I’ve heard it argued that long ago pain begat consciousness. To avoid serious damage a simple”” — Ian McEwan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Long ago
“Once pain has passed, it no longer exists. Once life has passed, pain is no longer possible” — Tobias Wade Copy Share Image
“He suspected that any life form that inflicted unnecessary pain tended to find its consciousness eroding. Without consciousness to reflect back upon life, all… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Bodies feel pain; only the mind can suffer. Indeed, it’s possible to be in pain and yet not suffer at all.” — Robert S. Rosenthal Copy Share Image
“I came up with a theory: pain must need your attention to exist. If you can direct your attention away from the pain, it… — Ron Miscavige Copy Share Image
“Pain is just weakness leaving the body, and then being replaced by pain. Lots of pain.” — Joseph Fink Copy Share Image
“Usually, we believe that our pain is a misfortune that needs to be fixed, but in fact, all pain (physical, mental, and emotional) is… — Eliza MADA Dalian Copy Share Image
“Pain is important. It acts as a warning. It tells us that we are damaging ourselves in some way.” — Art Berg Copy Share Image
“As someone whose days were defined by the ten thousand ways a human can hurt, she needed, now and then, to remember that the… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
“They say that the mind cannot remember pain; I say it barely matters, for even if the physical sensation is lost, our recollection of… — Claire North Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“As you will see, we do not believe that artists have an obligation to strike up attitudes to the war. Indeed, they are wise… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“It is shaming sometimes, how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions.” — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“While my friends struggled and calculated, I reached a solution by a set of floating steps that were partly visual, partly just a feeling… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“Once, on a walk by a river- Eskdale in low reddish sunlight, with a dusting of snow- his daughter quoted to him an opening… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it's one of those cases of a microcosm giving you the whole world. Like a spode dinner plate. Or a single cell. Or,… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
Who you get, and how it works out- there's so much luck involved, as well as the million branching consequences of your conscious choice… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“On Chesil Beach he could have called out to Florence, he could have gone after her. He did not know, or would not have… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I would rather be physically disabled obviously than mentally. I would rather be paraplegic than nuts. And it is a terrifying prospect and actually… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“Not very long ago I was driving with my husband on the back roads of Grey County, which is to the north and east… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
There must be a technique for meeting pain. There must be a technique of endurance based on the power of the soul to maintain… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share Image
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Up until 1986, the top marginal rate, the top statutory rate was 50 percent. Now it's 35 percent. And all the pressure is on… — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
“We ought to live each day as though it were our last day here below. But if I did, alas, I know it would… — Piet Hein Copy Share Image
I was landscaping not too long ago, so I'm extremely grateful for the people supporting me in wrestling. Not that landscaping is terrible, but… — Matt Riddle Copy Share Image
“Most people would probably call me a ghost. I am, after all, dead. But I don't think of myself that way. It wasn't so… — Christopher Pike Copy Share Image
“Waiting for Vengeance' Well, what is this? What am I coming to? And beyond that, what am I gonna do? Now there’s blankness Where… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“We were putting into these gomers our fear of death, but who knew if they feared death? Perhaps they welcomed death like a dear… — Samuel Shem Copy Share Image
“...The devil had long ago taken a shine to Tert Card, filled him like a cream horn with itch and irritation. His middle name… — E. Annie Proulx (Author Copy Share Image