Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes

I'm very ticklish. They say being tickled is a form of torture.

Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.

I have a hard time watching people getting punched on screen; I have to close my eyes a lot.

I think, often, when you are in just a lot of pain, it comes out as anger.

You can't look at people being crucified. Even if you know it is just pretend.

I was sitting by Dr. Franklin who perceived that I was not insensitive to these mutilations.

I'm not desensitized to death.

Pain is pain.

When I see somebody fall in practice or get hurt, it almost makes me want to cry.

Certain things just rub me the wrong way.

Maybe we should be a little bit more tender-hearted.

God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise.

Attitudes are capable of making the same experience either pleasant or painful.

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

He'd told her it was just a scratch and got cross when she hadn't offered morphine.

Not many people realize this, but I'm a really squeamish guy. When I watch other horror films that are really over-the-top with their blood and guts, I cannot watch it. So if my threshold to something onscreen is at that level, you can imagine how my threshold is to all the pain and suffering that is happening in the real world.

I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.

I wish no living thing to suffer pain.

A scab'd horse cannot abide the comb.

We often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, over-reacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally.

Meg's high-heeled slippers were dreadfully tight, and hurt her, though she would not own it; and Jo's nineteen hair-pins all seemed stuck straight into her head, which was not exactly comfortable; but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.

I am such a tender ass, if my hair do but tickle me, I must scratch.

the bad is more easily perceived than the good. A fresh lobster does not give such pleasure to the consumer as a stale one will give him pain.