Failing Quote by Leslie Jamison Download Open image “Imagining someone else's pain with too much surety can be as damaging as failing to imagine it.” — Leslie Jamison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Failing Imagine Pain Too much
One must think until it hurts. One must worry a problem in one's mind until it seems there cannot be another aspect of it… — Roy Herbert Reinhart Copy Share Image
Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“Imagine someone reaching straight into your chest, past the bones and blood and guts, and taking a nice firm hold on your spinal cord.… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
Thinking is sometimes too intense, so once I start feeling pain, if it is not too much pain, it eases my mind. — Rita Ackermann Copy Share Image
You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
...I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself. — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes just thinking about something is enough to hurt you all over again. — Evan Copy Share Image
“The mind can imagine terrors far more horrific than you could ever physically bear, just like the mind will tune out those physical hurts… — raine miller Copy Share Image
When people ask what kind of nonfiction I write, I say 'all kinds,' but really I mean I don’t write any kind at all:… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or plot point… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
The pain is what you make of it. You have to find something in it that yields. I understood my guiding imperative as: keep… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
I needed people to deliver my feelings back to me in a form that was legible. Which is a superlative kind of empathy to… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
In my own life as a reader I experience real moments of alienation when a writer feels too perfect, or like even the flaws… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
I'm happy not knowing. Most of the time (except when I'm a neurotic mess about uncertainty) I feel glad that the horizon is a… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
I do like arranging things. I like order. I basically like all these things that are the opposite of what people associate with the… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
I used to believe that hurting would make you more alive to the hurting of others. I used to believe in feeling bad because… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
“I obsessed, and told myself this obsession was empathy. But it wasn't, quite. It was more like inpathy. I wasn't expatriating myself into another… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
Post-wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
12-step recovery is very focused on abstinence, and that's bled into the broader understanding of treatment. It would be most useful to have multiple… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail? — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most. — William Powell Copy Share Image
You can’t bake a cake without getting the kitchen messy. Halfway through surgery it looks like there’s been a murder in the operating room.… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I wake up every morning fearing I am going to fail. But I love a challenge, big or small. There's so much I want… — Michelle Mone Copy Share Image