Unnecessary Pain Quotes

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

The test is pointless. It will kill people for no reason

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

To be a human being is to suffer. But it's the unnecessary suffering, it's the suffering that we visit upon one another, that really should be stopped.

It is confidently expected that the period is at hand, when man, through ignorance, shall not much longer inflict unnecessary misery on man; because the mass of mankind will become enlightened, and will clearly discern that by so acting they will inevitably create misery to themselves.

Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.

Getting angry over something that won't change is like seeing what happens if you hit your hand with a hammer over and over again, and being surprised each time when it hurts. So you might as well stop doing it.

Civilization means, above all, an unwillingness to inflict unnecessary pain ... those of us who heedlessly accept the commands of authority cannot yet claim to be civilized men.

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not a member of our own species.

I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.

There are enough tears in any child's life; we certainly don't need to add to them in the name of entertainment.

You are human, you will make mistakes, and it's one of the most beautiful things about being human, but you must learn from your mistakes, otherwise your life will have a lot of unnecessary pain.

My tolerance for tears is very little when you're beautiful and crying over nothing.

Boxing is insane and, in my opinion, should be banned.

I can attest to the very real potential for unnecessary pain, suffering, and death when the work of public-health officials is curtailed.

There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering.

I think feeling bitter or angry is really useless.

To say nothing of what you lose, lose, lose, are losing, man. You fool, you stupid fool ... You've even been insulated from the responsibility of genuine suffering ... Even the suffering you do endure is largely unnecessary. Actually spurious. It lacks the very basis you require of it for its tragic nature. You deceive yourself.

The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

Don't crop ears or tails or declaw cats; it's really painful. People think it's necessary, but it's painful for the animal, and it's completely unnecessary.