Animal Quote by Peter Singer

Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not a member…

— Peter Singer

There's no way that I know of to avoid pain absolutely, but suffering is the interpretation we choose to place on the pain we…

— Florynce Kennedy

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from…

— R. D. Laing

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is…

— Haruki Murakami

Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not. Pain is what the world does to you, suffering is what you do to yourself…

— Gautama Buddha

Pain is what the world inflicts upon us. Suffering is our emotional reaction when we fail to make the difficult conscious choice to choose…

— Jonathan Lockwood Huie

All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.

— James Young Simpson

Pain is physical; suffering is mental. Beyond the mind there is no suffering. Pain is essential for the survival of the body, but none…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Pain is inevitable, it eventually touches us all. Suffering is optional.

— Sean Stephenson

Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can…

— James Frey

Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not…

— Dan Millman

The suffering itself is not so bad; it's the resentment against suffering that is the real pain.

— Allen Ginsberg