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There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words.

Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.

Touch'd either the Passions of Rage or Grief to a Miracle.

I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.

From a Darwinian perspective, it is clear what pain is doing. It's a warning: 'Don't do that again.' If you burn yourself, you're never going to pick up a live coal again.

Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.

For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.