Pain Avoidance

Famous quotes containing the words pain and/or avoidance:

    “This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and ... if I think of human beings I’ve known and of my own life, such as it is, I can’t recall any case of pain which didn’t, on the whole, enrich life.”
    —Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990)

    “Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets!”
    —Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)