pain Quotes

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!