Pain Minimization Quotes

This is an execution, not surgery. Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the least pain?

Injuries should all be done together in order that men may taste their bitterness but a short time and be little disturbed. Benefits ought to be conferred a little at a time, that their flavor may be tasted better.

The good times and the bad times both will pass. It will pass. It will get easier. But the fact that it will get easier does not mean that it doesn’t hurt now. And when people try to minimize your pain they are doing you a disservice. And when you try to minimize your own pain you’re doing yourself a disservice. Don’t do that. The truth is that it hurts because it’s real. It hurts because it mattered. And that’s an important thing to acknowledge to yourself. But that doesn’t mean that it won’t end, that it won’t get better. Because it will.

Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain.

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.

...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.

The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.

The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as possible to string along with your delusions.

Cram as much pleasure as you can into life, and rail against the pain that you have to suffer as a result.

Doctors have told me I have a high pain threshold, but I can only know what I feel. I think I'm good at minimising the pain and being indifferent to it.