The greatest pain is not the pain that cannot be endured but the pain one does not want or is unable to want to endure.

 The greatest pain is not the pain that cannot be endured but the pain one does not want or is unable to want to endure. A person may be strong and perfectly capable of managing it, yet they feel no desire to do so, nor can such desire be instilled in them. What hurts them is precisely this, not “weakness” or anything of the sort. One can speak loosely about all other kinds of pain, but this one stands alone as an exception.