pain Quotes

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

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

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

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.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.