Pain Intensity Quotes

All pain is the same. Only the details are different.

Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.

Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.

The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.

For a sensation to be felt as pain is for it to be pain.

The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.

The shuddering would not stop. The pain was like the end of the world. He thought: There comes a point when the very discussion of pain becomes redundant. No one knows there is pain the size of this in the world. No one. It is like being possessed by demons.

'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.

Pain and suffering are in themselves bad and should be prevented or minimized, irrespective of the race, sex, or species of the being that suffers. How bad a pain is depends on how intense it is and how long it lasts, but pain of the same intensity and duration are equally bad, whether felt by humans or animals.

Grief is like a bomber circling round and dropping its bombs each time the circle brings it overhead; physical pain is like the steady barrage on a trench in World War One, hours if it with no let-up for a moment. Thought is never static pain often is... is it not yet enough?

I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt but I was wrong.

If pain were water, the world would drown

I actually had kind of one of those crazy experiences where when I hit, it was black out excruciating pain, and then white out absence of pain, and the subconscience thought that I want to go back.

For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling.

If you want to know the feeling [of labor pain], just take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.

... once you get beyond the crust of the first pang it is all the same and you can easily bear it. It is just the transition from painlessness to pain that is so terrible.

All pain is the same.

Jesus, I wondered, what do you do with pain so bad it has no redeeming value? It cannot even be alchemized into art, into words, into something you can chalk up to an interesting experience because the pain itself, its intensity, is so great that it has woven itself into your system so deeply that there is no way to objectify or push it outside or find its beauty within. That is the pain I’m feeling now. Its so bad, its useless. The only lesson I will ever derive from this pain is how bad pain can be.

Even at 30 or 40, if something doesn't do well, it still hurts. If I pinch someone, the pain is going to be the same whether the person is young or old.

The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.

The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

Pain is beyond reason, an obliterating giant stupidity to which all your history of jokes and nuance and ideas and caresses is nothing, simply nothing.

Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?