Pain Threshold Quotes:

There comes a time when the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping. At that moment, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable. Slowly, the realization emerges that the choice to continue what you have been doing is the choice to live in discomfort, and the choice to stop what you have been doing is the choice to breathe deeply and freely again. Once that realization has emerged, you can either honor it or ignore it, but you cannot forget it. What has become known can not become unknown again.

- Gary Zukav

source: Gary Zukav (2012). “Soul to Soul: Communications From the Heart”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

topic: Pain, Choices, Honor, Spiritual Transformation, Pain Threshold

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

- Andrew Carnegie

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Success, Pain Threshold, Glorious Life

Doctors have told me I have a high pain threshold, but I can only know what I feel. I think I'm good at minimising the pain and being indifferent to it.

- Johnny Knoxville

source: "Johnny Knoxville's house of pain" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2010.

topic: Pain, Thinking, Doctors, Pain Threshold

A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.

- William James

source: William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.140, Courier Corporation

topic: Pain, Spring, Loss, Descent, Pain Threshold

I have a high pain threshold. In fact, it's more of a large and tastfully decorated foyer than a threshold. But I do get easily bored

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Pain, Bored, Foyers, Pain Threshold

Spending $1 for a brand new house would feel very, very good. Spending $1,000 for a ham sandwich would feel very, very bad. Spending $19,000 for a small family car would feel, well, more or less right. But as with physical pain, fiscal pain can depend on the individual, and everyone has a different threshold.

- Jeffrey Kluger

topic: Pain, Car, House, Physical Pain, Pain Threshold

...Sometimes I suspect that what had really happened was that we became more resigned, more cynical, raised our pain thresholds as we lowered our expectations. All in all, settled for less.

- Emma Donoghue

topic: Pain, Expectations, Cynical, Pain Threshold

I had to learn to be honest with myself. I had to recognize my pain threshold. When I hit the floor, I have to realize it's not as if I broke a bone. Pushing yourself over the barrier is a habit. I know I can do it and try something else crazy. If you want to win the war, you've got to pay the price.

- Flo Hyman

topic: Pain, Crazy, War, Pain Threshold, I Can Do It

You'd think a guy who has broken 35 bones in his body would have a high pain threshold, but mine is pretty low. I got hit in the shin with a golf ball once and it almost brought tears to my eyes. I've had broken bones that didn't hurt as bad.

- Evel Knievel

topic: Hurt, Pain, Eye, Golf Ball, Pain Threshold

Without a high pain threshold, you can't be a successful President.

- William J. Clinton

topic: Pain, Successful, President, Pain Threshold