pain Quotes

One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.

I am as miserable as anyone - sometimes.

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.