There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery..

Look... to go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into th….

It's one thing to be twenty and touring the world, but doing it in your forties, you wake up with aches and pains..

Anytime that we - and when I say "we," I mean feminine people, trans feminine folk, women - do anything that is centered on our own pleasure or desir….

There the great Planter plants Of fruitful worlds the grain, And with a million spells enchants The souls that walk in pain..

The only sure way to maturity is through pain..

There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single attack exhaust itself; pain always makes….

Don't think of them now. Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them. You're here. It's our time and our….

Even today I cannot believe that people who lived together could inflict horrible pain on each other..

I'm never trying to make a statement about morality ever. If there's a statement to be made, it's "People are complicated. They do things that may hu….

Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly ….

I went away and cried to the Master of the Universe, "What have you done to me? A mind like this I need for a son? A heart I need for a son, a soul I….

The amount of suffering you actually can feel, you want to be able to do something about it. You want to be able to attend to it, to change the syste….

Follow your pain as if it were a candle in the night, leading you to a place of decision..

When we harbor negative emotions toward others or toward ourselves, or when we intentionally create pain for others, we poison our own physical and s….

Pain is the kiss of Christ..

The moves to contractualism and utilitarianism required some extra ingredients besides mortalism, the denial that God is in charge of the world, and ….

We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity. So it may be asked what value is there to a human life….

Pavlov's findings were that some animals learned more quickly if rewarded (by affection, by food, by stroking) each time they showed the right respon….

The (atomic) soul is mortal, and the best life is the one with the least pain and the most pleasure..

Of late God has been pleased to keep my soul hungry almost continually, so that I have been filled with a kind of pleasing pain. When I really enjoy ….