Painful Stimuli

Famous quotes containing the words painful and/or stimuli:

    a painful privacy
    learning to live without words.
    E.P. “It looks like dying”MWilliams: “I can’t
    describe to you what has been
    happening to me”—
    H.D. “unable to speak.”
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension.
    John Dos Passos (1896–1970)