“ Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell! ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, Expels diseases, softens every pain, Subdues the rage of poison, and the plague. ”
- John Armstrong- Copy
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“ The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around. ”
- Herb Caen- Copy
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“ We can only know one thing about God — that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him. ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
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“ The coward wretch whose hand and heart can bear to torture ought below, Is ever first to quail and start from the slightest pain or equal foe. ”
- Eliza Cook- Copy
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“ Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise. ”
- George William Russell- Copy
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“ There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes. ”
- William Trevor- Copy
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“ I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure. ”
- Marquis de Sade- Copy
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“ The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder. - King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. - Harry Truman. ”
- Harry Truman- Copy
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“ The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food. ”
- Mary Shelley- Copy
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“ I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer. ”
- Colleen McCullough- Copy
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“ Can wealth give happiness? Look around and see, what gay distress! What splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more. ”
- Andrew Young- Copy
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“ I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains. ”
- Anne Frank- Copy
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“ It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr. ”
- Napoleon Bonaparte- Copy
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“ Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought. - King Henry IV. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 5. ”
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