pain Quotes

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.

Farewell, fair cruelty.

I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.

U.S. Government propaganda tries to give the impression that aerial bombardment achieves near-surgical accuracy, so that military targets can be destroyed with minimal effect on civilians. Technical documents give a different picture.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.