The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We can alleviate physical pain, but mental pain - grief, despair, depression, dementia - is less accessible to treatment. It's connected to who we are - our personality, our character, our soul, if you like.
Suffering is a kind of ecstasy in a way. Having pain all the time makes me terribly, terribly grateful for every moment I've got.
There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
The greatest evil is physical pain.
We all know pain doesn't exist without some coexisting depression.
Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.
Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you to stop suffering.
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy.