Pain Preference Quotes

Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I'd prefer steel pins.

Pain now is better than pain deferred.

Rather than have joy, I would rather be absent of pain.

I'd rather sing a sad song than eat.

Pain is always preferable to numbness.

The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.

I will take it all: tongs, molten lead, prongs, garrotes, all that burns, all that tears, I want to truly suffer. Better one hundred bites, better the whip, vitriol, than this suffering in the head, this ghost of suffering which grazes and caresses and never hurts enough.