Pain Response Quotes

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.

Pain is weakness leaving the body.

Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way.

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

O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

I've never formally trained for pain management, but I have a good understanding of how to conquer it. I just analyze the pain, feel it in the moment, and then mentally become numb to it.

My pain is usually caused by some sort of attack on my ego. So usually, pain is an indication of something that, eventually, I'm going to want to transcend. But sometimes pain is just pain that you sit through. I find it can have a really exhilarating effect.

That even in its sharpest pangs of pain a dog can still caress its master we have learnt from the studies of vivisectors.

Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message.

Rest as soon as there is pain.

How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

One way to make a baby cry is to expose it to cries of other babies. There's sort of contagiousness to the crying. It's not just crying. We also know that if a baby sees another human in silent pain, it will distress the baby. It seems part of our very nature is to suffer at the suffering of others.

Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.

I've never been shot, but this probably what it feels like, that second of nothingness right before the pain catches up to the bullet.

Nothing activates adrenaline production like pain. - Dr. Sienna Brooks

Emotional pain makes me want to isolate. Or hit back. It's very tough to rise above my natural inclinations. I'm always working on this.

A pinch is a pinch. If you pinch my right nipple, I'm going to say, 'ouch.' If I pinch your right nipple, you're going to say 'ouch.' A foul is a foul and a flagrant is a flagrant.

If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No: When your hand starts to burn, it moves. You don’t have to direct it; the hand moves itself. In the same way, once you understand, through inquiry, that an untrue thought causes suffering, you move away from it.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

You play with pain. You don't think about it.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

Fear is a great signal. It's like a pain signal. Hey, look at me, look at me. Get your focus right over here, at the pain.