Norman Cousins Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

• Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.

  Norman Cousins

  Pain, Laughter, Sleep

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.11, Open Road Media

• Pain is part of the body's magic. It is the way the body transmits a sign to the brain that something is wrong.

  Norman Cousins

  Pain, Magic, Brain

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.10, Open Road Media

• We are becoming a nation of sissies and hypochondriacs, a self medicating society easily intimidated by pain and prone to panic. We understand almost nothing about the essential robustness of the human body or its ability to meet the challenge of illness.

  Norman Cousins

  Pain, Self, Challenges

• The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

  Norman Cousins

  Life, Pain, Men

• A casual attitude toward human hurt and pain is the surest sign of educational failure.

  Norman Cousins

  Hurt, Pain, Attitude

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