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pain torment
Her pain was very apparent, the torment she was in. Adrienne Barbeau
pain love-is fire
Love is a fiend, a fire, a heaven, a hell Where pleasure, pain, and sad repentance dwell Richard Barnfield
pain thinking gains
What we most value, we shall think no pains too great to gain. Richard Baxter
pain night mad
Only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day of happiness, wants to live to our nineties and die in peace, in a house that we built, that shall shelter those who come after us. The other half of us is nearly mad. It prefers the disagreeable to the agreeable, loves pain and its darker night despair, and wants to die in a catastrophe that will set back life to its beginnings and leave nothing of our house save its blackened foundations. Rebecca West
pain tolerance endurance
Pain, tolerance, endurance-when it comes down to that point, there's always something left. You just have to find it. Ryan Lochte
pain smoking want
What a weird thing smoking is and I can't stop it. I feel cosy, have a sense of well-being when I'm smoking, poisoning myself, killing myself slowly. Not so slowly maybe. I have all kinds of pains I don't want to know about and I know that's what they're from. But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself. Russell Hoban
pain moving talking
When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred clichés moves us because we sense dimly that the clichés are talking among themselves, celebrating a reunion. . . . Just as the extreme of pain meets sensual pleasure, and the extreme of perversion borders on mystical energy, so too the extreme of banality allows us to catch a glimpse of the Sublime. Umberto Eco
pain animal heaven
There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him.
pain long ongoing
Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope. Trudi Canavan
philosophy science engineering
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds. Richard P. Feynman
philosophy design innovation
When it comes to innovation, business has much to learn from design. The philosophy in design shops is, 'try it, prototype it, and improve it'. Roger Martin
philosophy ideas should
Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many. It should not reveal a coherent philosophy of composition. It must live on, and because of, its glorious ricketiness.
philosophy believe opportunity
We believe that when the right talent meets the right opportunity in a company with the right philosophy, amazing transformation can happen. Reid Hoffman
philosophy discovery political
Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought. William Kristol
philosophy law medicine
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change. William James
philosophy mind quiet
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
philosophy mind states
Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.
philosophy thinking stubborn
Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.
philosophical
We can't all do everything. Virgil
philosophical enemy strategy
Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?
philosophical time-passes
Time passes irrevocably.
philosophical helping unfortunate
Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.
philosophical reality mind
The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind. Vladimir Lenin
philosophical clouds speech
Funest philosophers and ponderers, Their evocations are the speech of clouds. Wallace Stevens
philosophical character men
The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with the philosophical principles and character of farce, as distinguished from comedy and from entertainments. A proper farce is mainly distinguished from comedy by the licence allowed, and even required, in the fable, in order to produce strange and laughable situations. The story need not be probable, it is enough that it is possible. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
philosophical listening asking
See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking. W. H. Auden
philosophical delight care
Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a series of revelations and effortless delights. Roger Ebert