pain Quotes

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.