Themes

"Pain is a gift that God gives to His creatures."

"The multidimensionality of pain perception, involving sensory, emotional, and cognitive factors may in itself be the basis of conscious, painful experience, but it will remain difficult to attribute this to a fetus at any particular developmental age."

"It may seem to be a long way from Blake's innocent talk of love and copulation to De Sade's need to inflict pain. And yet both are the outcome of a sexual mysticism that strives to transcend the everyday world. Simone de Beauvoir said penetratingly of De Sade's work that 'he is trying to communicate an experience whose distinguishing characteristic is, nevertheless its will to remain incommunicable'. De Sade's perversion may have sprung from his dislike of his mother or of other women, but its basis is a kind of distorted religious emotion."

"In a universe of blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won’t find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice."

"It never occurred to me to call 911 or my physician. […] As foolish as it may appear, you are, in a sense, a prisoner of the pain, which was intolerable. You're thinking, what could I do to relieve myself of it. If it becomes intense enough, you're perfectly willing to accept cardiac arrest as a possible way of getting rid of the pain."

"No pain, no gain."

"Douleur toujours nouvelle pour celui qui souffre et qui se banalise pour l'entourage."

"Everything that happens to us, such as pain and joy, blessings and misfortunes, significant events (such as successes and good fortune, accidents or the death of loved ones), insignificant events (such as daily work at home, in the office or at school), everything, everything will take on a new meaning because it is offered to us by the hand of God who is Love. He wants, or allows, everything for our own good. And sooner or later we will realize, looking with the eyes of the soul, that a golden thread links events and things and composes a magnificent embroidery: God's design for each of us."

"If everyone could feel everyone else’s pain, who would torture?"

"Beauty is pain and there's beauty in everything, what's a little bit of hunger? I can go a little while longer."

"Wait another minute, can't you see what this pain has fucking done to me? I'm alive and still kicking."

"PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another."

"In this last context, food refusal, weight loss, commitment to exercise, and ability to tolerate bodily pain and exhaustion have become cultural metaphors for self-determination, will, and moral fortitude."

"According to the doctrine of informed consent, even when it is “for the good” of the patient no one else-neither relative nor expert-may determine for the embodied subject that medical risks are worth taking, what procedures are minimally or excessively invasive, what pain is minor."

"Maybe life is good and everything is fine. Maybe take a breath; maybe do it twice. I know you're in pain, but that's a part of life."

"Pain is weakness leaving the body."

"[F]alling from the stars: Drenched in my pain again; becoming who we are."

"Whether, and at what stage a fetus feels pain has been a matter of much debate. The RCOG 2022 report Fetal Awareness Evidence Review concluded that the “evidence indicates that the possibility of pain perception before 28 weeks of gestation is unlikely”. The BMA recommends that doctors should give due consideration to the appropriate measures for minimising the risk of pain, including assessment of the most recent evidence. The BMA suggests that even if there is no incontrovertible evidence that the fetus feels pain, the use of fetal analgesia when carrying out any procedure (whether an abortion or a therapeutic intervention) on the fetus in utero may go some way in relieving the anxiety of the woman and health professionals."

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves can we understand them in other people."

"Pain is universal. We all experience pain, loss, and death the same way"

"The sword of time will pierce our skin It doesn't hurt when it begins But as it works its way on in The pain grows stronger watch I bring That suicide is painless It brings so many changes And I can take or leave them if I please."

"The pain was what it was. Beyond that there is nothing to say. Qualities of feeling are as incomparable as they are indescribable. They mark the limit of the capacity of language to communicate. If someone wanted to impart his physical pain, he would be forced to inflict it and thereby become a torturer himself."

"Sunny days wouldn't be special if it wasn't for rain; joy wouldn't feel so good if it wasn't for pain."

"But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?"

"Pain is temporary, glory is forever."

"pain acts like a leaven for both word and thought, quickening your sense of reality and the true logic of this world. Without pain you cannot distinguish the creative element that builds and sustains life from its opposite-the forces of death and destruction which are always for some reason very seductive, seeming at first sight to be logically plausible, and perhaps even irresistible."

"It’s a big disappointment for the pro-life movement, which has embraced 20-week bans as a way of taking advantage of public discomfort over later abortion. Based on the disputed medical claim that a fetus can feel pain after 20 weeks, thirteen states have banned abortions after that point, and Republicans in Congress have introduced similar federal legislation. Had the Albuquerque referendum passed, it would have opened up new avenues for anti-abortion groups to pursue restrictions at the local level—an attractive prospect in blue states like New Mexico, where the Democratic-controlled legislature has repeatedly buried new abortion laws."

"World's use is cold, world's love is vain, World's cruelty is bitter bane; But pain is not the fruit of pain."

"My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure."

"When , the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength."

"So let it be in God's own might We gird us for the coming fight, And, strong in Him whose cause is ours In conflict with unholy powers, We grasp the weapons he has given,— The Light, and Truth, and Love of Heaven."

"The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments."

"In that day's feats, * * * * * * He prov'd best man i' the field, and for his meed Was brow-bound with the oak."

"What strength!! But don't forget there are many guys like you all over the world."

"It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong."

"In my experience, real strength is sometimes quieter."

"Nous avons tous assez de force pour supporter les maux d'autrui."

"I feel like a Bull Moose."

"Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line."

"Plus potest qui plus valet."

"The Lord is my strength and my might, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him."

"To ask strength not to express itself as strength, not to be a will to dominate, a will to subjugate, a will to become master, a thirst for enemies and obstacles and triumphant celebrations, is just as absurd as to ask weakness to express itself as strength."

"Minimæ vires frangere quassa valent."

"O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant."

"But strong in your good cause. Oh, ye are strong, If ye would know your strength!"

"When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success; and when we have well surveyed the powers of our own minds, and made some estimate what we may expect from them, we shall not be inclined either to sit still, and not set our thoughts on work at all, in despair of knowing anything; nor on the other side, question everything, and declaim all knowledge, because some things are not to be understood."

"I'm not weak — I'm too strong. The bracelets bound my strength to good purposes — Now I'm completely uncontrolled! I'm free to destroy like a man!"

"For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack."

"Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it; and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic."

"The strong rules and the weak are their slaves — and no one is stronger than me."