Sensitivity to Pain Quotes

Each of us has a "soft spot": the place in our experience where we feel vulnerable and tender. This soft spot is inherent in appreciation and love, and it is equally inherent in pain.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

Kindness is willing to look in the face of the hurting.

These are things that only dogs and women understand because we tap into the pain directly, we connect to pain directly from its source, and so it is at once brilliant and brutal and clear, like white-hot metal spraying out of a fire hose, we can appreciate the aesthetic while taking the worst of it straight in the face. Men, on the other hand, are all filters and deflectors and timed release.

Unless you are oblivious to your own suffering, you have no right to be oblivious to other people's suffering.

If you couldn't tell the difference between what hurt and what didn't, you had no business being alive. You can't have any good times if you can't tell.

Pain is always preferable to numbness.

I hate seeing people getting hurt or hurting other people. I hate seeing blood. I am very intolerant of physical pain. I find violence horrifying, so much so that I can't help being intrigued by it.

An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in the world.