pain, n.Definitions

Pain is, from a Darwinian perspective, a warning: "Don't do that again!"

Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

Pain is, along with pleasure, like light and darkness, in that they succeed each other.

Pain is always subjective. Each individual learns the application of the word through experiences related to injury in early life.

Pain is essentially life. As such the sharper the pain, the more evidence of life.

Pain is but a violent pleasure whose dividing point is difficult to discover.

Pain is essential, and when it cannot be avoided it must be redeemed: And the only way to redeem it is through literature, art, poetry, music.

Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage.