“If we must tempt to Pleasure, how do we tempt to the least amount of Pleasure? Or better yet, tempt them to its opposite? But how to tempt them to pain.” PainReligionPleasureChristianityAddictionChristian FictionGrimrack Author:Geoffrey Wood
“Turning an experience about to observe it, results in a lessening of the experience directly proportional to the amount of observation. To think about it is, to some degree, to stop the pleasure, to stop the experience, to step outside it.” PainReligionPleasureChristianityExperienceAddictionChristian FictionGrimrack Author:Geoffrey Wood
“And so, wish becomes pang; the crave, an ache; pleasure, pain. Losing all its pleasure, anticipation cuts the opposite direction and becomes merely a constant, painful reminder of what they’ve lost, forever.” PainReligionPleasureChristianityAddictionAnticipationChristian FictionGrimrack Author:Geoffrey Wood
“An imagined pleasure is never really the pleasure, but an imagined pain, in a very real sense, is the pain, because so much of pain is the consciousness of it. It makes itself objective. Whereas to think about pleasure is to step outside of it; to think about a presently felt pain is to step inside it. And in a very real sense, we’ve already got them in Hell.” PainReligionPleasureChristianityAddictionChristian FictionGrimrack Author:Geoffrey Wood
“In general, Americans would walk a mile uphill in the rain to avoid pain, unless the walk could be shorter and level and the day sunny, which they’d prefer.” PainReligionChristianityChristian FictionAmericansGrimrack Author:Geoffrey Wood
“That dusty hill we can scarcely look upon and then only with pain, The Adversary, also with pain, does and must ever witness The Crucifixion.” PainReligionChristianityWitnessChristian FictionCrucifixionGrimrack Author:Geoffrey Wood
