“A new pain enters and the old pains of the household receive it with their silence, not with their death.”

“Silence is a protective coating over pain.”

“Weave the circle, tightly sewn,
Let nothing evil or unknown
Enter within. Stay without
On pain of death, we cast you out.”

“you’d think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it’s painful.”

“People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. ”

“One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.”

“And in an infinite regress:
Tell me, why is the pain of birth
lighter borne than the pain of death?”

“People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend”

“… to be injured on this tundra would lead to a quick and painful death—or at the very least abject humiliation before the popping flashes of the tourist season's tail end, which was slightly less painful than a painful death, but lasted longer.”

“One pain is lessened by another’s anguish…. Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.”