pain Quotes

From a Darwinian perspective, it is clear what pain is doing. It's a warning: 'Don't do that again.' If you burn yourself, you're never going to pick up a live coal again.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.