“There are two ways. One is to be a puppet, follow the culture, and do whatever they want. That was mentally disturbing to me, and still is. And the other way is to go out. I knew there would be problems from my family, and also from my environment. But I thought that physical pain would be better than the mental pain. And I started working as an artist.” WayWantStillsTwoProblemWould BePainArtistCultureEnvironmentMy FamilyDisturbingTwo WaysPuppetsPhysical PainMental Pain Author:Malina Suliman
“All animals go through interminable hard labor to produce what humans shamelessly rob from them at great physical/mental pain to them and to their young. THINK TWICE before using hot 'merchandise'!!!” ThinkingHumansHardPainYoungAnimalProduceLaborHotAnimal RightsThink TwiceMerchandiseMental Pain Author:Adela Popescu
“I think emotional and mental pain is probably worse than physical pain. I think we don't realize that I have no arms or legs but we all have disabilities of some sort, some fear, some lost, some wishes that didn't come true, things we wish would be better.” ThinkingWould BePainLostWishRealizingEmotionalArmsLegsDisabilityPhysical PainTrue ThingsMental Pain Author:Nick Vujicic
“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.” KnowsPainProcessDealsBrainCompassionEvolutionEvidenceSpeciesSpeedFasterSecondsPhysical PainMental Pain Author:Antonio Damasio
“A broken leg can be remembered and located: "It hurt right below my knee, it throbbed, I felt sick at my stomach." But mental pain is remembered the way dreams are remembered-in fragments, unbidden realizations, like looking into a well and seeing the dim reflection of your face in that instant before the water shatters.” WayWellsDreamPainFacesFeltWaterHurtSeeingBrokenDepressionReflectionSickIllnessLegsMental IllnessRealizationRememberedKneesInstantYour FaceStomachIt HurtsFragmentsBroken LegMental Pain Author:Tracy Thompson
“A good Dianetic auditor can take a broken-down, sorrow-drenched lady of thirty-eight and knock out her past periods of physical and mental pain and have on his hands somebody who appears to be twenty-five-and a bright, cheerful twenty-five at that.” HandsPainPastFiveBrokenPeriodsSorrowTwentiesEightThirtyCheerfulTwenty FiveBroken DownAuditorsThirty EightMental Pain Book:Self Analysis Source: Self Analysis