pain Quotes

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever.

Love is a serious mental disease.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.