Pain Avoidance

Famous quotes containing the words pain and/or avoidance:

    “Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.”
    —A.S. (Antonia Susan)

    “The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment.”
    —Jill Robinson (b. 1936)