pain (n.) is the positive element in life, and pleasure its negation.

Arthur Schopenhauer on Pain

Things Everyone Goes Through

Fade

Feel In Between

Feel Misfiled

Feel Out Of Body

Get Louder When Ignored

Keep You Awake

Keep You Up At Night

Outlast Their Welcome

Outstay Their Welcome

Pull Focus

Sting Without Warning

Survive Translation

Take Your Breath Away

Wake You Up

pain

doctor

Yiddish (language)

curse

brain

trivia

phobia

mathematics

Chuck Norris

old age

predator

chair

posture

back pain

eternity

sleeping

illness

middle age

getting old

sleep

neck pain

adulting

growing old

swearing

stubbing a toe

foreing language

grief

dealing

anguish

30s (age)

funny bone

nurse

patient

Valentine's Day

Dune (film)

lawn

mowing the lawn

regeneration

five senses

balance

heat

fish

rejection

Tylenol

fruit

inflammation

is the positive element in life, and pleasure its negation.

Pain is the positive element in life, and pleasure its negation.

of any great sort, of mind or body, reveals what we deserve, because it could not have befallen us unless we did.

Recast in definition form from: “… what we deserve; since it could not have happened unless …”

is not an idea but an immediate affection of the will: any impression on the body that goes against it.

Recast in definition form from: “It is quite wrong, however, to call pain and pleasure ideas, for they are by no means ideas, but immediate affections of the will in its manifestation, the body”

can only change its form: drive it out as want and it returns as lust, love, jealousy, envy, hatred, ambition, sickness; failing all else it comes in the sad grey garments of boredom.

Recast in definition form from: “It is essentially deficiency, want, care for the maintenance of life. If we succeed, which is very difficult, in removing pain in this form, it immediately assumes a thousand others, varying according to age and circumstances, such as lust, passionate love, jealousy, envy, hatred, anxiety, ambition, covetousness, sickness, &c., &c.”

grows with consciousness: the plant feels none, insects little, vertebrates much, man most — and among men the genius suffers most of all; he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

Recast in definition form from: “even in insects the capacity to feel and suffer is still limited. It first appears in a high degree with the complete nervous system of vertebrate animals, and always in a higher degree the more intelligence develops. Thus, in proportion as knowledge attains to distinctness, as consciousness ascends, pain also increases, and therefore reaches its highest degree in man.”

of body and pain of mind cancel each other: great bodily pain makes us indifferent to every other trouble, and great mental anguish makes bodily pain a welcome distraction — which is why suicide becomes easy.

Recast in definition form from: “In the same way, great mental suffering makes us insensible to bodily suffering: we despise it. Nay, if it outweighs the other, we find it a beneficial distraction, a pause in our mental suffering. And so it is that suicide becomes easy”

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