#pain

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#pain #problems

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#pain #being

I have a new name for pain. What’s that? The Obliterator. Because when you’re in pain, nothing else can exist. Not thought. Not emotion. Only the drive to escape the pain. When it’s strong enough, the Obliterator strips us of everything that makes us who we are, until we’re reduced to creatures less than animals, creatures with a single desire and goal: escape. A good name, then. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#pain #saphira #goals

Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself. ↗

— James Frey

#pain #suffering #withstand #suffering

Warriors should suffer their pain silently. ↗

— Erin Hunter

#hunter #hurt #pain #stoicism #suffer

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#sages #thinking #violence #pain

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#discloses #painter #photographer

When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine. ↗