Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"I have no patience these days with the Nietzschean cliché, 'That which does not kill us makes us stronger.' I've found that the deepest pain holds no meaning. It is not purifying. It is not ennobling. It does not make you a better human being. It just is.

"All the worst pain does is reduce us to our most primal animal. We want it to stop. We want to survive. It short-circuits any sense of self, diminishes us to a bundle of biological reflexes." -- Dana Jennings, "Pain Beyond Words, and an Impulse Just to Endure", 2009-09-21, New York Times [thanks to realinterrobang for pointing it out along with related thoughts about disability.]