pain Quotes

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.

There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.