“When one is gripped by excruciating physical pain, one is always shocked at just how frightful it can be.”

“Some pains are physical, and some pains are mental, but the one that's both is dental.”

“Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born at once one is guilty.”

“Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself.”

“How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.”

“Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.”

“No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one's dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pain more tolerable, but, always, one is beholden to medication that may or may not always work and may or may not be bearable”

“Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.”

“Thinta flew safely, and I realized how much I preferred being with Hergal and feeling the blood drain out of my head with fright. Actually when I’m with Hergal I always realize how much I prefer being with Thinta and not feeling the blood drain out of my head with fright.”

“I was starting to come to grips with the fact that I had created a lot of pain and suffering around me, not just within me.”