#torment

Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves. ↗

— Peter Lewis Allen

#believed #brought #even #had #however

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#appetite #men #need #some #some men

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three. ↗

— Washington Irving

#felicity #marriage #strife #three #torment

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

#already #heart #i #know #none

Our tongues can’t compete with the rapid thinking of our brains, our words come out slow and slurred. The pen is our haven. There is a lot of fear buried into that little pen. It holds all of our agony, our torment, our blood and our heaven. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#fear #jamie-weise #love #passion #pen

I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original. ↗

— Joseph Haydn

#confuse #cut #forced #i #me

If some persons died and others did not die death would indeed be a terrible affliction. ↗

— Jean de La Bruyère

#dr-who #living #torment #death

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment. ↗

— Jane Austen

#another #loves #make #man #offended

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#been #books #connected #ever #had

I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction. ↗

— William Banting

#affliction #alike #am #being #constitutions