Steve Scalise Quotes

It is funny how it is almost more painful to fall over and scrape your knee than to be blown up. Your body goes into incredible protection mode.

When you get hit to the body, you don't even worry about your face no more.

The physical shock took away the pain of being.

I've never been shot, but this probably what it feels like, that second of nothingness right before the pain catches up to the bullet.

You'd think a guy who has broken 35 bones in his body would have a high pain threshold, but mine is pretty low. I got hit in the shin with a golf ball once, and it almost brought tears to my eyes. I've had broken bones that didn't hurt as bad.

Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.

There's no way that I know of to avoid pain absolutely, but suffering is the interpretation we choose to place on the pain we encounter.

He felt strangely numb. As though from a great distance, he was aware that he was being beaten. The last sensations of pain left him. He no longer felt anything, though very faintly he could hear the impact of the club upon his body. But it was no longer his body, it seemed so far away.

During the fight my senses dim, and basically, I don't feel any pain.

Pain ... after you've lived with it long enough, isn't pain anymore. It's something else.

The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think worth describing in detail.

Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.

Physical pain is problematic because it's very difficult to transcend that. Sometimes you're just in physical pain, and that's a bummer. Even then, there are beautiful things involved in the healing of that. I've experienced some.

Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.

Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause is healed. Suffering is pain that we hold on to. It comes from the mind’s mysterious instinct to believe that pain is good, or that it cannot be escaped, or that the person deserves it.

There is such a thing as anaesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne.

Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of life is a fusebox.

All pain is the same.

He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable.

Most people fear pain. I've learned that not feeling pain is a much more frightening proposition than feeling it. In fact, there are times when I'm playing when I actually enjoy it.

Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of everything, even pain.

Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain.

Pain has no effect but to steal some of my time.

I never take medication for pain. I want to know if the pain is getting better or worse.

He that sleeps feels not the tooth-ache