"Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal."

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"Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal."

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"What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness?"

Suzanne Collins, American Novelist

Pain, Sensitivity, Destruction, Identity, Self

"Tavi spent an eternity in misery, longing for death to bring sweet release from the unrelenting torment. The others gathered at the side of his bunk on the ship, keeping a deathwatch over him."I don't see what all the drama is about," Demos said, his quiet voice filled with habitual disinterst. "He's seasick. It will pass."~Captain's Fury."

Jim Butcher, American Author

Pain, Illness, Suffering, Humor

"Don't lick your wounds unless you care to taste the sting a second time."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Pain, Regret, Wisdom, Truth

"Fire is easy to work with if you keep your mind clear, but pain . . . pain fights back. Pain is alive. Pain is the enemy."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Pain, Truth, Power, Today, Inspirational

"Given a choice, I would never want a life totally devoid of pain, but life is meaningless without some sadness."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Pain, Sadness, Meaning, Life

"Only pain can define the meaning of tears."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Pain, Tears, Meaning, Emotion

"How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constructs our past to justify what we feel now. How each successive pain distorts the preceding."

Sherman Alexie, American Writer

Pain, Memory, Past, Identity

"Some pain has no relief,it can only be sealed You can grasp the wound to feel the scar unhealed."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Pain, Suffering, Healing, Emotion

"Sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me ."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Pain, Struggle, Identity, Self

"If your tears have lost the ability to hide your pain... why shedding them?"

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Pain, Emotion, Life, Truth

Explore more quotes by Polly Toynbee

"But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools."

Faith, Government, Churches, Living

"Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying."

Death, Care, Dying

"Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge."

Politics, Happiness, Challenge, Water

"Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying."

Death, People, Fear, Dying

"Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP."

Happiness, Government, Money, Progress

"The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly."

Health, Illness, Poverty, Unhappiness, Years

"My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense."

Values, Commonsense, Compassion, Day

"There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious."

Religion, Children, Difference, Religious

"Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified."

Happiness, Time, People, Causes

"People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death."

Death, Time, People, Longing