Pain Avoidance

Famous quotes containing the words pain and/or avoidance:

    “How had I come to be here,
    like them, and overhear
    a cry of pain that could have
    got loud and worse but hadn’t?”
    —Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

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