Sentence examples for idea of pain from inspiring English sources

From the novelist Albert Cohen he took the notion that "the idea of pain is worse than the pain itself".

Ms. Duke made you feel the animal terror of a bright child trapped by sensory deprivation, while Miss Eisenberg can only convey the idea of pain and fury.

"It's about the idea of pain and rebirth and her experience as a refugee, as a professional woman and as a writer," explains Anne Louise Kershaw, community and outreach programme producer at Home.

We examined whether foragers alter their food consumption and choose to self-administer an analgesic drug in response to injury, in a way that is consistent with the idea of pain.

Her work transfers the idea of pain and brokenness on to the human body, and then back on to a map of Baghdad ("a wounded body") and Al-Mutanabbi Street ("a scar").

A stellar example of literary nonfiction (parts of which first appeared in The New York Times Magazine), the book recounts the author's own years with chronic pain and the preconceptions she brought to it (including the idea of pain as the price for romantic love); summarizes its social, cultural and medical history; and gives us a reporter's view of state-of-the-art treatment.

"Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime," he writes in the essay.

Ideas of pain and of pleasure corresponded respectively to self-preservation and society, and society involved the passions of sympathy, imitation and ambition.

Burke's further view that our simple ideas of pain went towards a complex idea of a God who inspired terror, was very distant from the deists' view that He could be understood by our natural faculty of reason alone and that as such He was known to be benevolent and not much besides.

Or, as he puts it elsewhere, with a detachment almost like Sade's, "Little more can be said than that the idea of bodily pain, in all the modes and degrees of labour, pain, anguish, torment, is productive of the sublime; and nothing else in this sense can produce it".

Our children's journey to adulthood is like childbirth, in a way; you don't forget the idea of the pain, but you do forget, to an extent, the actual, physical pain.