Physical Pain Quotes

Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.

The greatest evil is physical pain.

When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer.

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.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.