#torment

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough. ↗

— Frank Crane

#enough #live #may #much #too

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#inflicts #itself #mind #result #torments

The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy. ↗

— Georges Rouault

#causes #conscience #disease #endless #fills

...I will exile my thoughts if they think of you again, and I will rip my lips out if they say your name once more. Now if you do exist, I will tell you my final word in life or in death, I tell you goodbye. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#frustration #torment #death

How should a Jew feel? There we went through the seven gates of hell for matzos. Here I stand in matzos over my head. So how should a Jew feel? You are an angel of God, and the Rebbe, he should live and be well, the Rebbe made miracles and wonders for me. At night, I tell myself it is a dream and I am afraid to wake up. If it is a dream, better I should not wake up, better I should die in my sleep. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#matzos #persecution #survival #torment #dreams

Endure. In enduring, grow strong. ↗

— Chris Avellone

#mca #torment #inspirational

After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#happiness #love #torment #love

He had the innate sense that something bad was just around the bend, but a hope that something incredible was waiting in the distance. It had to be. His burning love for her cursed through him until he felt so full he didn’t know whether he would fit through the portal. ↗

— Lauren Kate

#lauren-kate #torment #love

Would love be so different with someone else? Was love even possible with someone else? Love was supposed to be easy, wasn't it? Then why did she feel so tormented? ↗

— Lauren Kate

#torment #love

Do you love me Hero?" His pale green eyes were full of torment. "Do you love me like I love you? ↗

— Elizabeth Hoyt

#relationships #torment #love