Acute Pain

Famous quotes containing the words acute pain, acute and/or pain:

    “Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.”
    —Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)

    “Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.”
    —Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)

    “Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.”
    —Naomi Wolf (b. 1962)