#torment

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#loss #much #possession #riches #their

No, I'm not anguished and tormented. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#i #tormented

I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#being #cannot #going #happen #hard

Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it? ↗

— Gao Xingjian

#confusing #define #holy #how #i

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#because #evils #man #prolongs #reality

Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

#ago #black #disappointment #golden #i

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#everyone #i #i love #love #mix

I try to write about the stuff that torments us all. ↗

— Danielle Steel

#i #stuff #torments #try #us

I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand. ↗

— Clara Schumann

#agony #because #beforehand #cannot #concert

To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude. ↗

— Richard Steele

#only #others #passions #pleasing #solitude